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SANDY BERGER: I LIED, I DELIBERATELY DESTROYED DOCUMENTS ON TERRORISM POLICY
National Review ^
| April 1, 2005
| Jim Geraghty
Posted on 04/02/2005 6:17:05 AM PST by conservativecorner
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To: conservativecorner
Martha Stewart goes to the slammer for telling a lie about a crime for which she was not charged, prosecutors having lacked sufficient evidence. Berger walks for stealing classified documents, evidence of his crimes being plentiful and airtight. Something ain't right.
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posted on
04/02/2005 6:35:09 AM PST
by
catpuppy
To: conservativecorner
In earlier posts here a number of posters thought that such a deal signified the fact that Berger rolled over on someone else. I think that's wrong. This is just another example of the Bush administration not wanting to stir up the pot for some reason. Drives me crazy.
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posted on
04/02/2005 6:35:40 AM PST
by
thegreatbeast
(Quid lucrum istic mihi est?)
To: BillF
To: LRS
WHEN IS OUR SIDE GOING TO STAND UP?I feel and share your frustration.
There is no way he'd be getting off this easily were he
a Republican,and the rats were in power.....and he shouldn't!
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posted on
04/02/2005 6:38:42 AM PST
by
MamaLucci
(Libs, want answers on 911? Ask Clinton why he met with Monica more than with his CIA director.)
To: conservativecorner
My gut tells me he sang like a canary.
Bush will get anything he wants this session, cuz he got the goods on folks up for re-election in '06 and folks with White House aspirations in '08.
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posted on
04/02/2005 6:39:11 AM PST
by
mabelkitty
(Friends don't let friends Opus!)
To: LRS
WHEN IS OUR SIDE GOING TO STAND UP?
Good question!
The Bush administration continues to treat these felons with kid gloves....why?
To: conservativecorner
We are no longer a government of and by the people. Both sides of the aisle think the laws are only for the "little people".
There is a character flaw in MOST people in elected office in that they believe they know better what is good for us and therefore they are exempt from many of our laws.
3 years???? Get real. Who would trust this person to ever handle sensitive documents?
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posted on
04/02/2005 6:39:58 AM PST
by
Wurlitzer
(I have the biggest organ in my town {;o))
To: conservativecorner
As long as his "motives remain some what of a myestry" a quote from the NY Times story reporting the plea deal, he should get the maxium sentence.
The silence of the democrats on this will be deafening to be sure but as long as the Pope dies soon no one will notice.
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posted on
04/02/2005 6:41:09 AM PST
by
Phlap
(REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
To: conservativecorner
These terms must be accepted by a judge before they are final...
This has been turning out so well lately. A judge gets to approve the terms. How nice.
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posted on
04/02/2005 6:43:29 AM PST
by
AD from SpringBay
(We have the government we allow and deserve.)
To: MinuteGal
I'm surprised the Burglar King admitted to ANYTHING.
For a slap on the wrist? He's be stupid not too. Whatever else he is he's not stupid. He gets his security clearance back just in time to help a certain junior senator from NY run for president.
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posted on
04/02/2005 6:44:30 AM PST
by
Valin
(DARE to be average!)
To: conservativecorner
Because there were some facts out there that were so damning, Sandy Berger was willing to break the law to make sure the public never saw them. Repeated for emphasis. clintbilly and company sold out this country.
We reap what we sow - I hope to see their crop come in.
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posted on
04/02/2005 6:45:33 AM PST
by
mombonn
(¡Viva Bush/Cheney!)
To: digger48
Prosecutors reached a deal, hmmm why? Thought a trial would cost too much?
Politicians have been covering each others behinds for a long time, protecting the integrity don't you know. This is another example. Even if Sandy did talk like a parrot do you think anything would be done to *cough* Clinton *cough cough* who was his boss. And what kind of punishment is this? The guy did not observe he acted and should be punished even if he squealed.
Get real, Bush could have told his subordinates to go full force but instead embraced the integrity angle. Do you honestly think Presidents never speak and "influence" the Attorney Generals?
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posted on
04/02/2005 6:45:52 AM PST
by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
To: conservativecorner
A 3 year SUSPENSION of his security clearance??
"SUSPENSION"?
And Martha Stewart went to jail for telling a lie.
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posted on
04/02/2005 6:47:41 AM PST
by
DCPatriot
(Charter member in the WPPFF and Class of 98.)
To: conservativecorner
The plea bargain is not only a bargain for the Burglar, it also means that there will be no trial that might raise questions about, I don't know -- maybe the Clintons. Now no troublesome questions will be asked and the whole affair can disappear. That is some slick justice.
To: LRS
I agree. Not to get you more angry, had Berger been a Republican and/or in any of the Bush Cabinets, what do you think the punishment would have been?
To: conservativecorner
>...plead guilty to a misdemeanor, and will acknowledge intentionally removing and destroying copies of a classified document...<
"misdemeanor"!?!?!
If I did that I would be in prison for AT LEAST 10 years!
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posted on
04/02/2005 6:51:01 AM PST
by
G Larry
(Aggressively promote conservative judges!)
To: mabelkitty
To: conservativecorner
As I stated on another thread yesterday.....
Someone's gotta' continually check Burgler's bank account!
There ain't no way that he's going to take the fall for the rest of his life for removing stuff that would damage Bubba's legacy.
He's being paid off, for sure! BIG TIME!
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posted on
04/02/2005 6:52:33 AM PST
by
aShepard
To: conservativecorner; Liz
...he shredded them with a pair of scissors late one evening at the downtown offices of his international consulting business.Martha Stewart did time for less...
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posted on
04/02/2005 6:53:12 AM PST
by
Libloather
(Start Hillary's recount now - just to get it out of the way...)
To: catpuppy
"Martha Stewart goes to the slammer for telling a lie about a crime for which she was not charged, prosecutors having lacked sufficient evidence. Berger walks for stealing classified documents, evidence of his crimes being plentiful and airtight. Something ain't right."
Ain't that the truth - and how the hell did the MSM come to make Martha Stewart, a polish-american female, the poster boy for Enronesque corporae scandal?
A variation of the polack joke?
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posted on
04/02/2005 6:54:37 AM PST
by
spanalot
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