'SOCKS DOCS' JURY GRILLS CLINTON CRONY

New York Post ^ | 1/12/05 | IAN BISHOP and DEBORAH ORIN

[kattracks]

Former Clinton White House Mr. Fix-It Bruce Lindsey emerged tight-lipped yesterday after testifying before a federal grand jury probing whether top-secret documents were illegally removed from the National Archives.

The grand jury probe, reported exclusively in The Post Tuesday, is digging into why another former Bill Clinton aide, Sandy Berger, sneaked the national security documents out of the Archives — possibly in his socks.

Lindsey denied any inside knowledge about Berger's sticky fingers.

"All I know is what he [Berger] said. He made a public statement," said Lindsey, Clinton's deputy White House counsel, after testifying under oath yesterday.

Berger admits walking off with 40 to 50 top-secret documents from the archives, but claims it was an "honest mistake" while vetting documents for the 9/11 commission.

Berger has admitted destroying some documents — he says by mistake.

Lindsey declined comment on what he told the grand jury, but denied reports that he met with Berger in New York for crisis control as the scandal erupted last summer.

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Among the documents Berger lifted were multiple drafts of a report assessing the 2000 millennium threat that is said to conclude that only luck prevented a terrorist attack then.

That conflicts with Berger's sworn testimony to the commission — he claimed "we thwarted" millennium attacks by being vigilant, not lucky.

[Outraged]

I am still trying to figer out how the "9/11 Commission's" final report could have any credibilty without having recalled Bergler, asking him why he was committing felonies for Jamie Goerlick's old boss...Yet the scum from the left, right and Whitehouse, played possum/ostrich hybrid.

And I am supposed to abide and honor ANY findings of this thoroughly discredited faux-commission's conclusions?...Puhleez!

[cyncooper]

Thanks you.

[cyncooper]

good grief

"Thanks you" should be "Thank you".

LOL

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[bandleader]

I'll believe it when someone is actually held ACCOUNTABLE!!!

[bandleader]

I can already hear Shrillary complaining about"The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy"!!(excuse me,I think I'm going to be sick)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bandleader]

That's right!I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find out that he had something to do with the disposition of the body that belonged to Vince Foster!!He's been "cleaning up"after these felons(The Klintoons)for some time!!!!!

[bandleader]

It's already started.So far,it's Vince Foster and that guy from Commerce!!

[bandleader]

What you mean is that Osama was"The Blue Plate Special",but Klintoon ordered"A La Carte"instead!!!

[newfrpr04]

"who will he take down with him"..... They are all covered with so much snake oil,slithering they will slim away again and old hiltery will come out the victim. Clinton's don't care who they bring down so long as they can slither out.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[Fedora]

Thanks for the ping, piasa! Carlin is also linked to the National Security Archive, a group that has come up in previous threads on Berger. See discussion starting at Post 47 on Sandy Berger still under investigation:

Freeper Adam_Az picked this off on another thread concerning Kerry. I'm posting it here because I wonder if this Tom Blanton is the executive director of the National Security Archive, where Sandy Berger liked to go shoplifting, and if perhaps Blanton is associated with Kerry in other ways.

1985 : (CONGRESSMEN KERRY & HARKIN TRAVEL TO NICARAGUA) To: LibWhacker HOLY CRAP!!!!! IT IS REAL!!!!!! It's in a Boston Globe article!!!

http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/062003.shtml

Indymedia is PROUD OF IT!!!!!!!

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/01/279420.shtml

Kerry's audacity cost him. Within weeks of taking office in 1985, he was off to Nicaragua, accompanied by reporters on a 36-hour, self-appointed fact-finding mission with another freshman, Democratic Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa.

Congressional Democrats had accused the White House of exaggerating the communist threat posed by the Sandinista regime. So the two senators were publicly castigated when -- just days after meeting with Daniel Ortega and other leaders of the regime -- the Sandinistas climbed aboard a plane to Moscow to cement their Soviet ties.

Secretary of State George Shultz declared that Kerry and Harkin had been "used" by the Nicaraguans, and he ridiculed them for their naivete in "dealing with the communists."

Kerry was called "silly" in the Boston press.

...`In early 1986, people like North were deathly afraid of what Kerry was after," says Tom Blanton, the executive director of the National Security Archive, a research organization in Washington. "There was this pervasive sense of the potential of turning over too many rocks. Worms and insects kept crawling out."

You can read the full story from the link below. Also you can go to:

http://www.democracynow.org

for a full profile of hopefully our next President.--- "John Kerry: Hero of Iran-Contra Investigation : John Kerry investigates Reagan's genocidal policies in Central America and nails Oliver North. ," Author: The Sane Left, John Kerry meets with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega in midst of Reagan War , Excerpts of Boston Globe profile on Mass. Senator John Kerry as featured on Democracy Now:

319 posted on 02/11/2004 8:23:51 PM PST by adam_az

47 posted on 08/09/2004 10:06:55 PM CDT by piasa

SNIP

To: piasa; Shermy; Liz; backhoe

Nice find. The National Security Archive is also linked to Peter Kornbluh, Kerry's associate from the Institute for Policy Studies. They've edited a number of declassified documents related to US Latin American policy re: Cuban Missile Crisis, Pinochet, Sandinistas, etc. See for instance:

Chile Documentation Project: Peter Kornbluh, Director

It was also Kornbluh who arranged Kerry's trip to meet Ortega in 1984. IMO the upshot of this is, if Berger was in contact with these people, any documents he had could've been transmitted straight to Fidel Castro.

52 posted on 08/10/2004 2:00:26 AM CDT by Fedora

[Fedora]

Whoops!--in my last post I meant to include a link on Carlin and the National Security Archive. He corresponded with Thomas Blanton during the National Security Archive's efforts to get classified files on Henry Kissinger:

National Security Archive to Archivist of the United States John W. Carlin, January 15, 1999, 1 p.

Archivist of the United States John W. Carlin to National Security Archive, January 21, 1999, 1 p.

Attorneys for National Security Archive to National Archives and Records Administration and Department of State, January 25, 2001, 2 pp. [Encloses letter from State Department Spokesman James P. Rubin to Archivist of the United States John W. Carlin, 2 pp.]