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Posted on 07/27/2004 8:24:25 AM PDT by clintonbaiter
I hadn't really been following the Sandy Berger matter very closely until my boyfriend brought it up as we were having dinner the other day.
"Did you hear about Sandy Berger? He's been sticking documents down his pants." As partisan-politcked-out as I was feeling at that moment, this caught my attention.
"He's been doing what?" I asked.
"Sticking documents down his pants. And maybe down his socks."
My next question was the obvious one. How the hell did he fit documents in his pants? He must have been wearing some incredible extra-extra-extra-super-extra-relaxed Gap jeans fit that I hadn't even imagined existed! As for Berger's motivation, my first thought was that he was covering something up. (What, you thought of the "Is that a classified document in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" jokes first? Shame on you.)
In fact, I thought the cover-up assumption was so unassailably obvious that I assumed everybody else would be assuming it too. That turns out to have been a naive underestimation of the Democrats' unabashed capacity to spin. Once the Berger story hit, there were suddenly Berger-apologists popping up everywhere, describing how the whole thing was just an honest mistake, and aren't we all pretty much guilty of absent-mindedly stuffing things down our pants half the time anyway?
For example, Bill Clinton's former adviser David Gergen told the "Today Show" that the Berger situation is "more innocent than it looks," which, one has to note, isn't a very high bar. Others who worked with Berger during the Clinton years defended the former national security adviser by insisting he was always losing track of papers and appointments back then too. Which is either the lamest excuse invented to date ("No, don't worry about it. I've been mistakenly pawning and destroying classified documents for years now, and I never could keep that damn secret unlock code for the nuclear weapons straight.") or a very scary statement about the country's security under Clinton. Or perhaps it's both.
The picture of Berger as an absentminded adviser with nothing to hide is starting to look even less believable now that the 9/11 report has been released. According to that document, Berger stood in the way of taking action against Al Qaeda threats four separate times during the pre-9/11 Clinton administration. Which is exactly the sort of poor judgment that could explain a sudden desire to do away with records of one's actions or choices.
Not that we know that the documents Berger took--and, ahem, misplaced--actually show the sort of damning evidence the 9/11 report appears to.
Thanks to Mr. Berger and his pants, we'll never know what those papers said. But to all but partisan Democrats too concerned with shielding John Kerry from the fallout from the stuffed trouser scandal to admit anything is amiss, Berger's cover-up seems the sort of acrid smoke that portends serious fire. And Berger's shameless excuse that this was all an "honest mistake" is the sort of Clintonian insult to the public's intelligence that both infuriates and implicates......
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"To protect his own skin!" ??
Nah - he's retired (more or less) and whatever his advice, it wasn't illegal no matter how wrong it turned out - it was advice only.
there is something else - and the key words were "side notes written in margins" on the copies. THAT is what could be dangerous since it shows the truth in WHO knew what when.
One more thing that really bother me - WHY was he allowed a phone inside that vault to begin with? NO transmitters, etc are allowed anywhere inside any classified area that contains codeword materials = it is supposed to be blocked form all electromagnetic signals also! ????
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the US attorney is bound by the laws Congress makes...
unless they can prove intent, I think Burglar walks.
I don't believe it was "inadvertant" but I do believe he had nothing that everyone else didn't have-he had copies.
This "inadvertant" is the newest version of "no controlling
legal authority".
I think he'll end up dead or he'll walk. Both seem to be
a Clinton associate way of life.All the underling workers
will be punished, but nothing will happen to the Burglar.
I beg to differ. Intent will be shown--each of the visits and many document covers had acknowledgements/warnings etc. Bergler has a prior history too. A jury will find intent. The US Attorney Toomey has indicated crimes. Bergler will be indicted and I think others may too. Time will tell...
Perhaps he was instructed to shove it.
Compare Berger's hiding of classified national security documents which quite obviously were deemed of top importance since he appeared a total of 5 times, to a 5 time shoplifter.
Hiding goods in clothing, coming back for repeats, making phone calls while on the take (to check on what is of prime importance and with whom?) shows proof of planning, intent.
A shoplifter goes to jail.
Where does a thief of national security documents wind up?
According to his enablers, media, Dem. party affiliates, Bill Clinton who got a huge laugh, he's just a forgetful bumbler.
Good one!!
That Berger advised four times not to take action against alQaeda is one of the items in the 911 Commission report, and I think that was the first time it has been known. It also appears that for much of this period of time, the 'Toon was effectively emasculated due to the fallout of his dalliances with Monica, and so he was pretty much giving Berger full responsibility for handling such low importance things as responding to terrorism, and apparently again inferred by the report. (I've not gotten that far in the report to see that for myself). Character matters, and having someone with the 'Toon's lack of seriousness about security came home to roost on 911, as well with his appointment of Berger as NSA.
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me hopes you are correct .
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