SANDY BERGER: I LIED, I DELIBERATELY DESTROYED DOCUMENTS ON TERRORISM POLICY

National Review ^ | April 1, 2005 | Jim Geraghty

[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.

[thegreatbeast]

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.

[WmShirerAdmirer]

Love the pic.

[MamaLucci]

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!

[mabelkitty]

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.

[dagoofyfoot]

WHEN IS OUR SIDE GOING TO STAND UP?


Good question!


The Bush administration continues to treat these felons with kid gloves....why?

[Wurlitzer]

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?

[Phlap]

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.

[AD from SpringBay]

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.

[Valin]

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.

[mombonn]

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.

[rollo tomasi]

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?

[DCPatriot]

A 3 year SUSPENSION of his security clearance??

"SUSPENSION"?

And Martha Stewart went to jail for telling a lie.

[Wilhelm Tell]

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.

[WmShirerAdmirer]

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?

[G Larry]

>...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!

[WmShirerAdmirer]

Hope you're right!

[aShepard]

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!

[Libloather]

...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...

[spanalot]

"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?