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Berger's contempt for US national security
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| Monday July 26 2004
| Scott Jordan
Posted on 07/25/2004 10:04:31 PM PDT by Brian Allen
"[Lindsey's] nicknames have run the gamut from "the Enforcer" to "the Consigliere," the Sicilian word for a trusted counsel to a Mafia chieftain." — Time Magazine, March 23 19981
The astonishing admission of Samuel "Sandy" Berger, Bill Clinton's longtime National Security Advisor, that he stuffed "code-word"-class secret documents into his pants, sneaked them out of a secure review room at the National Archives and "inadvertently" destroyed them is highly disquieting to those familiar with Berger's background and activities in the Clinton Administration.
In particular, the Washington Post reports1 that Berger purloined all draft revisions of a key critique of the government's response to the millennium terrorism threat, a document that detailed Administration knowledge - and inaction - regarding al Qaeda presence in the U.S. in 1999 and 2000. Stolen were crucial notes in the margins of these drafts which reveal the thinking and agendas of the Clinton Administration relating to the mounting terrorist threat.
Cui bono? And when the losses were discovered, why did the Archives staff notify Bruce Lindsey? Lindsey, whom Time Magazine called Clinton's consigliere, is the brilliant legal tactician both Clintons can thank for their continued freedom.
Berger has an impressive resume, but not one that obviously qualified him as NSA. He entered White House service a millionaire lawyer and lobbyist with a career centered on expanding trade with China.3
Former FBI Director Louis Freeh opined that "he was a public-relations hack, interested in how something would play in the press."4 Indeed, Clinton's brilliant poll-meister, Dick Morris, noted Berger "seemed to work overtime at opposing tough measures against terror",5 advising vetoes of legislation aimed at crippling Iranian terror funding and working to block antiterror sanctions.
It was Berger who repeatedly rebuffed Sudanese offers to hand Osama bin Laden to the United States in a deal brokered by a $900,000 contributor to Democrat campaigns.6, 7
It was Berger who allowed bin Laden and his top lieutenants to escape to Afghanistan.8
It was Berger whose calls Bill Clinton ducked in 1998 when bin Laden was briefly vulnerable to missile attack.9
It was Berger who was singled-out by former UN Inspector Scott Ritter for the collapse of UN inspections efforts in Iraq.10
It was Berger who helped broker the farcical antinuclear treaty with North Korea. It was Berger who ultimately admitted that the Clinton Administration had failed to develop a war plan to fight al Qaeda.11
At the same time, it was Berger who was the go-to man in the Administration on matters regarding China policy in the years when Communist Chinese money was being funneled into Democrat Party coffers in exchange for policy concessions and strategic nuclear technology.
It was Berger whom DNC Chairman Don Fowler approached for favors for George Chao-chi Chu, a Chinagate-linked John Huang crony described as having "unusual access to high-ranking Communist officials in China" who, like the just-exited chief-foreign-policy-advisor Berger, has current ties to John Kerry.12
And it was Berger who the Energy Department approached with warnings of Chinese spying in Los Alamos, and who stonewalled the matter for three years.13
The list goes on and on14: Berger was not just the malfeasant, poll-driven, cowardly hack at the helm of our national security apparatus who enabled the global metastasis of bloodthirsty jihad; he was not just one of the key people who roadblocked cooperation between law enforcement and foreign intelligence, stacking "Gorelick's Wall" ever higher. In fact, as bagman for the Communist Chinese, Sandy Berger was himself likely one of the key beneficiaries of Gorelick's Wall.
Viewed against his record, Berger's theft and destruction of "code-word"-level secret documents - and "The Consigliere's" stealthy involvement - is all too readily understood.
1 TIME, Adam Cohen, The Ubiquitous Mr. Fix-It: http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/03/16/time/bruce.lindsey.html
2Washington Post, Berger Quits as Advisor to Kerry Susan Schmidt: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?node=admin/registration/register&destination=register&nextstep=gather&application=reg30-politics&applicationURL=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64379-2004Jul20.html
3 Tom Laughlin: http://www.billyjack.com/jung/08_politics/articles/990515_spy.html
4Freeh quoted in The New Yorker: http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=95001824
5Wall Street Journal, While Clinton Fiddled, Dick Morris: http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=95001824
6National Review,Clinton & Khobar, Rich Lowry: http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200311030753.asp
7Washington Times, Miniter Responds, Richard Miniter: http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20030922-090028-4916r.htm
8NewsMax, Aide: Clinton Unleashed bin Laden, Chuck Noe: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/5/153637.shtml
9US News & World Report, Paul Bedard, 15 Mar 2003
10 Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem - Once and for All by Scott Ritter, reviewed by Daniel Pipes: http://www.danielpipes.org/article/896
11National Review, Warning B.S., Rich Lowry: http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200310290829.asp
12The Hill, Fundraiser resurfaces from 1996, Sam Dealey: http://www.hillnews.com/news/073003/fundraiser.aspx
13Sen. James Inhofe: http://www.matthewgoss.org/chinagate.html
14National Review, The Clinton Intel Record, Mansoor Ijaz http://nationalreview.com/nr_comment/nr_comment042903.asp
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: clinton; nationalsecurity; sandyberger; treason
What's the other French word for ENEMY, Monsieur "Clark-Wilson-Berger-Klinton-Kerry?"
To: Mia T; Alamo-Girl; jmstein7; JohnHuang2; MeekOneGOP; Jim Robinson; Bob J; DoughtyOne; shaggy eel; ..
S Berger Esquire:
Kerry aide.
Enemy.
Traitor.
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posted on
07/25/2004 10:13:21 PM PDT
by
Brian Allen
(I am, thank God, a hyphenated American -- An AMERICAN-American -- and A Dollar-a-Day FReeper!)
To: Brian Allen
After Clinton moving Huang into security positions where he could fax out top secrets to Asia, this seems tame.
The whole lot of them were working for the other side... any other side.
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posted on
07/25/2004 10:16:45 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Fox News is Fair and Balanced. Move-on.org is Bare and Imbalanced.)
To: Brian Allen
Carter.
People wonder why intelligence operations were/are inneffective?
Who wants to die to enable a communist USA, and can also pass the rigorous background screening of a top security clearance?
Hint-not any politician alive.
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posted on
07/25/2004 10:20:58 PM PDT
by
sarasmom
To: Brian Allen
It seems that the DemoRats starting with Carter have been the only EFFECTIVE tool that the socialist totalitarianists heve used to try to destroy America and freedom. The downfall of the USA or the command of it's military and police forces to international control (United Nations) will be a disaster for humanity on the scale of the flood. There is NO other entity that can halt the permanent slide of humanity to the depths of slavery and misery. And the socialist DemoRats would destroy civilization and all human hope for what? Their egos?
To: Brian Allen
To: Navy Patriot; Grampa Dave; shaggy eel
<< .... the socialist DemoRats would destroy civilization and all human hope for what? Their egos? >>
Why ask why?
Evil needs only to be recognised -- and courageously-countered. [Patrick Henry's "Give me Liberty or give me death," has a nice ring to it]
Not to be understood.
Blessings -- Brian
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posted on
07/25/2004 11:07:03 PM PDT
by
Brian Allen
(I am, thank God, a hyphenated American -- An AMERICAN-American -- and A Dollar-a-Day FReeper!)
To: Brian Allen
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posted on
07/26/2004 3:24:26 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: Mia T
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posted on
07/26/2004 5:25:31 AM PDT
by
Wolverine
(A Concerned Citizen)
To: Wolverine
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posted on
07/26/2004 6:09:56 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: Brian Allen
Thanks for the post and ping! Good article.
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posted on
07/26/2004 12:06:14 PM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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