Rush Limbaugh: What Papers Were Worth Berger Risking It All?

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | 7/22/04 | Rush Limbaugh

[cincy29]

He was willing to risk it because he's an arrogant SOB and he knew that if he got caught his liberal cohorts and the MSM would make excuses for him.

Just thinking out loud here, but maybe the missing stuff isn't all that bad, it's just stuff he was too lazy or cheap to make copies of, and he just thought he wouldn't get caught, because hey, he's Sandy Berger.

Before you flame me to a crisp, and insinuate that I am a troll from DU, my reasoning for this theory is rather simple: there should be a crapload of stuff in the archives about the Clinton Admin and national security. There's the Wall, the refusal to take bin Laden, the Cole, Flight 800, the embassy bombings, the aspirin-factory missiles, and a whole bunch of other stuff I can't recall at 11:00 at night.

Plus, there's the other things that we don't even know if NSA had a role. The OKC bombing comes to mind.

If Berger really wanted to clean the files, he would have needed to bring a U-Haul.

[cricket]

[In his book, Davis wrote: "When bad news is coming, get your version, an alternative story line, out first." . . .I may be wrong, but I don't think this is going to just "get spun away" like the other Clinton scandals have"]

The bad news/attack with more bad news, MO of the Left; is simply a more personalized but time-honored war tactic; ' the best defense is a good offense'. . .

As to whether Sandy gets away with this; for some reason, perhaps the demrats history; this calls to mind the old question: if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there; will it make a sound?

[tkathy]

The worst thing the reps could do right now is look like fanged attack dogs. IMHO they are setting an above-it-all sort of tone that is working, albeit not perfectly.

[ardara]

This reminds me of ABSCAM the perpetraitors were arrogant.So you had congressmen like John Murphy[from a rich family risking jail for a few thousand dollars.They usually got away with it many times before.

[Dan(9698)]

>>>...if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there; will it make a sound?

There is another like it:

If a man is standing in a forrest, talking, where no woman can hear him, is he still wrong?

[fizziwig]

Here in Sacramento CA, the local rag we conservatives refer to as Pravda (Sacramento Bee) ran the berger story on the front page lead story. I was shocked. Since then, it has been buried. Guess they realized what they had done, or were notifed of it, and are now towing the line.

They are turds.

[prognostigaator]

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[Lester Moore]

IMHO they are setting an above-it-all sort of tone that is working,

100,000 dead shredded aborted babies last month, 100,000 dead shredded aborted babies this month, and likely 100,000 dead shredded aborted babies next month.

I am not taking 'talk', above-it-all tone or not, over results. The Republicans better do something about this slaughter.

[unspun]

bump...

and...

The Bush Administration should take the better suggestions of the 9.11 Commission, improve upon them and put bills in the Congress before it adjourns for the election season.

[Ed_in_NJ]

Maybe something HERE?

[Dems_R_Losers]

I would not flame you at all. I think you are on to something. Berger is an ambitious troll who was clearly in over his head as NSA, but thanks to Kerry actually thought he had the inside track on being Secretary of State. He therefore needed to be sure that those memos were scrubbed of anything that would make him look weak on terrorism. One possibility is that the early draft of the Millenium Memo, written by Richard Clarke, called for an immediate invasion of Afghanistan and possibly even Iraq or Iran, and Berger's own notes in response said "hell, no" - a reply that would be quite embarrassing to him in today's context. I believe Berger probably quashed any notion of any major military response to cripple Al Qaeda.

Another possibility is that Berger knew that the Bush people had never seen this memo, so he need to look at all the drafts of it again to recall what was in it that he may have failed to brief Bush's NSC staff about. Surely he knew that Bush, Cheney, Rice, and Ashcroft were going to tell the 9/11 Commission exactly what he had briefed them on. He needed to make sure he had the right recollection of what kinds of options the Clinton administration considered but never told the Bush people about, so he and Clinton would not trip themselves up in their own testimony.

Either of these scenarios would make it important enough for Berger to risk apprehension and prosecution by taking the documents and making notes of them. It doesn't have to have been a suicide mission for the Clintons, just his own ass-covering.

[MissAmericanPie]

The way Clinton jumped on news cameras from the get go, makes it another Clinton cover-up.

[Graymatter]

"But if Kerry didn't know, it tells you a lot about Berger."

Definitely. It means Berger isn't loyal to Kerry, but to Clinton---who also isn't loyal to Kerry. Poor JFK, everybody knew and nobody would tell him...

[Waco]

A 2nd Bush admin. should devote much resources to bringing the entire klinton crimminal operatio to justice and reveal everything.

[ChocChipCookie]

I found the timing of this whole Bergler story very suspicious. It came out one day before the 9-11 report. Brilliant move! Berger is the lead story for one whole day, then comes the long-awaited 9-11 report and whoosh! Berger is no longer front page news. Only the Democrats would have anything to gain by this "suspicious timing" that they touted on every news channel.

[Christian4Bush]

bump for later!

[IncPen]

... follow the links, some very curious things here...

[Brimack34]

If the Republicans leaked this they would have done it friday. Closer to the DNC convention and would play better on the sunday shows. So the dems leaked it early hoping it would die out. The NEW MEDIA will not let it.

[beaversmom]

I hadn't thought about this but I think Rush is on to something. Of course we know, that whatever the Dems accuse the Republicans of doing, they are actually the guilty ones.

[nutmeg]

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