Posted on 07/27/2004 5:47:58 PM PDT by True Capitalist
Banned In Boston
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National Security: Why has Sandy Berger fallen out of the news cycle? Oh, that's right: He didn't give some hapless detainee a wedgie at Abu Ghraib in Baghdad.
Blaming Berger's absence on the flood of news coming from the Democratic National Convention would be too easy. Fact is, there's no better time for the media to continue looking into the former national security adviser's alleged filching of classified documents from the National Archives.
Berger, who explains himself as the "inadvertent" lifter of sensitive government material, has several direct links to the party -- and Party -- in Boston.
Not only was he President Clinton (news - web sites)'s right-hand man on security matters. He also was -- until he resigned July 21 -- a top foreign-policy adviser to the Kerry campaign and in line for a Cabinet position in a Kerry administration.
Were Berger a Republican, even one of out office, his behavior would be a news obsession, convention or no. The networks and mainstream press couldn't possibly pass up a link so juicy.
No doubt Democrats are upset over the Berger affair. But not for any possible wrongdoing or security risk he might have created.
No, their concern is the timing of the revelation that Berger is the target of a criminal probe. Those dirty Republicans must have leaked the news just to take the focus off a 9-11 commission report that was sure to be embarrassing to Bush. Only it wasn't.
This, however, might be an embarrassment to Democrats: World magazine quotes Rep. Curt Weldon (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa., as noting, "This is the second time now that we have a documented case of Berger mishandling classified information."
In January 1999, Weldon said, he sent an advance copy of a security report to Berger for the national security chief to review.
According to Weldon, Berger pre-released information to the media to put a "White House spin on what was still a classified document."
Weldon was so incensed by Berger's actions that he took to the House floor to complain about "the outrageous and curious behavior of our so-called national security adviser."
So Berger is a serial abuser of federal law and protocol? Or is he just a bumbling plumber trying to cover the foolish calls he made while national security adviser?
We ask because it appears that some of the classified material he allegedly stuffed into his pants and socks was a draft showing he rejected plans to attack an al-Qaida camp in January 2000.
Surely the media elite should cover that possibility as feverishly as they covered the possibility that someone high in the Bush administration approved the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
But no, there are bigger fish to fry, such as those being served up at this week's scripted Bush roast in Boston.
Wheels of Justice grind VERY slowly.....Ashcroft will NAIL him.....someday!
Incorrect. He's the former head of the President's National Security Council with the title of
"National Security Advisor." The National Security Agency (NSA) is led by a general and is
essentially a military run organization.
For the lib, it's always someone else's fault. They're the narcissist as Morris, in one of his sober moments, accused Clinton. In ones best John Lithgow 3rd Rock ham-actor impression, it's not what can I do for my country, but what can my country do - for meeeEEEE! John don't-scratch-me Kerry is the quintessential example.
They'll never give in. They'll never give up. It's not even a 'phony brave'. It's because they're stupid, and arrogant, and certain in their stupidity. And that simply won't change.
Rather, the time of the alphab-nets, the wire services, Hollywood 'culture', major leftie newspapers, and such, much like that of the dinosaurs, might be passing. In its place will be new networks, like those on cable, not free tv, different subscription papers, different magazines, internet sites like this, the 'blogs' of course. And the wire services? I think people can pick up a cell-phone and report what goes on in some part of the world to interested parties, and that will make it to the 'blogsphere' and elsewhere. As for Hollywood interviews and gossip, infamous murders and other 'true detective' stuff and 'penny dreadfuls', well, I suppose that's the only thing that will save the 'major media' once so proud of David Brinkley, and those like him.
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