Posted on 03/31/2005 8:22:45 PM PST by conservative in nyc
Samuel R."Sandy" Berger, a former White House national security adviser, plans to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, and will acknowledge intentionally removing and destroying copies of a classified document about the Clinton administration's record on terrorism.
Berger's plea agreement, which was described yesterday by his advisers and was confirmed by Justice Department officials, will have one of former president Bill Clinton's most influential advisers and one of the Democratic Party's leading foreign policy advisers in a federal court this afternoon.
The deal's terms make clear that Berger spoke falsely last summer in public claims that in 2003 he twice inadvertently walked off with copies of a classified document during visits to the National Archives, then later lost them.
He described the episode last summer as "an honest mistake." Yesterday, a Berger associate who declined to be identified by name but was speaking with Berger's permission said: "He recognizes what he did was wrong... It was not inadvertent."
Under terms negotiated by Berger's attorneys and the Justice Department, he has agreed to pay a $10,000 fine and accept a three-year suspension of his national security clearance. These terms must be accepted by a judge before they are final, but Berger's associates said yesterday he believes that closure is near on what has been an embarrassing episode during which he repeatedly misled people about what happened during two visits to the National Archives in September and October 2003.
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The terms of Berger's agreement required him to acknowledge to the Justice Department the circumstances of the episode. Rather than misplacing or unintentionally throwing away three of the five copies he took from the archives, as the former national security adviser earlier maintained, he shredded them with a pair of scissors late one evening at the downtown offices of his international consulting business.
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I'm told that Sandy Burglar gets
$25K per speech from the Washington Speakers' Bureau. $25K to hear from a thief of national secrets, go figure.
"This is the way the case ends / Not with a bang but a whimper." Bump
" I responded top an idiot, who said in his/her post, that this country DESERVED to fail. That's akin to those who said, after 9/11 that we DESERVED to be attacked like that."
I don't take it like that, And I don't believe it was intended like you take it. I take it as simply a desperate call for people to wake up or face there fate. I don't take it in anyway as a wish for America to fail. Quite the opposite. I guess I could see what you feel, but I don't think you are reading it as it was meant to be taken. We all have our own ways of expressing our frustrations. That does not mean we don't love our country. Most Anyone who hated it would not be here. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
There are millions of people living here,who hate our country,but don't leave;some have even said that they would, but haven't and won't.
Did you hear what Jane Fonda said today?
He stated, and I quote, with his bold intact :".... we live in a moronic nation that deserves to fall."
So he loses his clearance for the duration of the Bush administration, when he will hold no position for which he needs it. Then, if HRC gets elected, he gets his clearance back just in time to be NSA again. Boy, these guys in the Justice Dept are tough tough tough.
He took a dive for HRC. Whatever he destroyed was going to ruin her. He will be amply repaid.
There have been several points in the history of our nation, where most people did NOTHING and so things got got worse. There were even times when many people actually EMBRACED the evil and fomented it. I was not a party to it; were you?
I suppose that is true. But in todays world with all the unification against what is good brought to us by the Liberal left through the main stream media....I think it is going to be far worse than ever before. Never before has the technology existed to spread it(evil) through all the world at once and to track and silence those who oppose it. It is comming.
Jane fonda does not post here. And I am sorry you can not see that different people express there frustrations in different ways. I am sure there are technical terms for these methods of making points. But I cannot tell you what they are. If you had been around a while then I would think that you would have meant enough different people in the world to understand that we don't all make our points in the same way. Even when we have the same points to make. What more can I say.
He only loses it for 3 years! He should lose it permanently. In three years it will be 2008 & think about what happens in '08, he will be right back on the Clintoon staff....
I don't want to high jack this thread, but maybe we will find another thread,some day, on which we can explore and expound on this further.
Since that was THE biggest bunch of circular nonsense I've seen in quite a while, please don't say anything else. I'm still trying to figure out what you were saying in this one. LOL
That's a very good point.
Anyone else would be serving MANY, MANY years in prison for this.
I think the sentence is shocking, too, but I did read in another report that he received the light sentence in exchange for agreeing to "assist the Government" in the investigation. In other words, he talked or is still talking.
Berger stole the docs, but it was probably not his inspiration to do so, and it sounds as if he is giving up names. So we shall see how this turns out...although I will admit that I'm not going to hold my breath.
Boy, is that the truth!
When the Senate rigged the impeachment "trial" of Bill Clinton so serious evidence and testimony against him could not be delivered, I saw that very clearly.
They spend all of their time figuring out how to fool us into taking them seriously.
There is a good reason why, in the movie Independence Day, American theater audiences cheered the destruction of the U.S. Capitol by aliens.
Could be worse........Laura Miller could be in charge of the nation!
Okay. It probably says somewhere in the article who Laura Miller is but I refuse to visit the Washington.comPost or LATimes or NYSlimes websites so who is Laura Miller?
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