surprise,`surprise
Since we all knew it, and we all know there are multiple standards of justice...what's the surprise, and why is this news?
stuff like this really pisses me off.
Every wonder why Martha Stewart does jail time for lying to a grand jury, but Bill Clinton does not?
And now this. Which is more deserving of jail time, Lying about a stock trade or stealing secure government documents? Just incredible!!!!
All of the real pals are disclosed even under President Bush. I wonder if the president took advice from senator Kennedy on how the thief should be treated.
It's the "new tone" in Washington, don't ya know?
This sounds a lot like the whimpy "kinder, gentler" theme we heard 15 years ago.
Genetic link?
The sentence is essentially nothing, for a crime that should have seen many years in jail.
However, he was forced to admit publicly that he did it with intent. That has high legal significance, and could mean he is cooperating with investigators.
The long delay in what seems an open and shut case could be because they are following up leads provided by Berger, etc. (I know, I know... Pigs still can't fly...)
We can hope, anyway. The alternative is that another member of the Clinton crime family just skated.
BRING OUR TROOPS HOME
Why should any more die and get hurt for the injustice of this Country!
I read in the paper a few days ago that Bergers security clearance would be suspended for 3 years.
3 Years? How about FOREVER?!
The "permanent government" always protects its own.
How is this different than Watergate?
Equal protection? You try to do what Berger did. And at least they could have gotten something in return for the plea. Like for whose benefit the documents were being stolen, when was the order given, who was involved in the conspiracy and who knew about it.
Someone needs to put a microphone in RINO Tom Davis' face. When this story broke he said he would hold hearings as the chair of the Gov Reform Committee. He's my critter and won't answer my mail.
I simply asked him this (before the plea bargain was revealed) on 25 March:
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Subject: Documents stolen by Sandy Berger
As the chairman of the Committee on Government Reform you said, some
months ago, that you were going to hold hearings on the documents
stolen from the National Archives by former National Security Adviser,
Sandy Berger.
What is the status of those planned hearings?
Thank you
In case anyone who is charged with preventing "exceptionally grave damage to US national security " wonders what that really means --- now we know. $10,000 and 3 years probation.
I would dearly like to know what those documents said.
Yep - the average schmuck that screws up gets the maximum sentence and the movers and shakers, who should be summarily executed for the worst kind of treason get off scott free...
Actually there are two standards for Republicans and Democrats - a Republican would have been drawn and quartered for this; the Nixon men served jail time for far less. Then you have the Mobbed up Clintons, courts and judges in place to protect them for the rest of their lives. Berger was a Clinton man. The dangerousness of the Clintons must never be underestimated – they can, will, and have done anything for power. Sandy Berger is another example of the tentacled web they have woven into American politics and ensnaring the DNC with their egregious lust for power.
Notice how Ms. Clinton has never said how she would handle terrorists or countries who harbor terrorists..............