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Why Isn't Sandy Berger Going to Jail?
National Ledger ^ | June 30, 2005 | Tom Fitton

Posted on 06/30/2005 9:53:59 PM PDT by yoe

Former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger pled guilty on April 1 to smuggling five classified documents, including a highly secret memorandum.

Two men walk into the National Archives [no this isn't a joke] one steals letters dating back to the civil war then sells them on EBay. The other steals classified documents related to terrorism then destroys them in order to deceive investigators. Which man receives the stiffer penalty.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalledger.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: devon; devonenergy; devonenergycorp; goldfield; gulfsands; gulfsandspetroleum; iraq; sandyberger; sandyburglar; spy; stealing; stonebridge; stuffmypants; syria
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Comment #61 Removed by Moderator

To: yoe

The Left owns the judge in this case?


62 posted on 07/01/2005 6:31:55 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: yoe
Maybe I'm recounting a false memory, but I recall that part of the Berger deal was that he had to come clean about what he stole and what he destroyed, and why.

Am I making this up, or does anyone else remember something similar?

63 posted on 07/01/2005 6:33:02 AM PDT by savedbygrace ("No Monday morning quarterback has ever led a team to victory" GW Bush)
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To: Baynative

Those big numbers help when it's early in the a.m. .... will be calling. I naively thought Berger would actually be getting smacked down on this. The jokes on a lot of us


64 posted on 07/01/2005 6:40:47 AM PDT by Horatio Gates (Peas through superior fertilizer!)
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To: Baynative
Deborah A. Robinson

United States Magistrate Judge
District of Columbia
Washington, D.C.

Chambers: (202) 354-3070


65 posted on 07/01/2005 6:41:58 AM PDT by yoe
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To: shotokan

BTTT


66 posted on 07/01/2005 6:43:08 AM PDT by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: yoe

because he is a lib plain and simple. Rules only apply to conservatives.


67 posted on 07/01/2005 6:45:56 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
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To: Hank Rearden

Kinda how cops don't give speeding tickets to other cops?

We need Mike Pence for President.


68 posted on 07/01/2005 6:58:24 AM PDT by RockinRight (Conservatism is common sense, liberalism is just senseless.)
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To: Liz

Very good analysis and questions.
It is hard to say what did, or what might have happened, with the Sandy Burglar deal -- there are so many double standards and complicity in Washington nowadays that one can only wonder. We certainly know who Burglar was/is protecting. But it may go beyond that.

Very difficult to sort through a situation where NO PERSON CAN BE TRUSTED. A sad days for this country, really.


69 posted on 07/01/2005 7:05:05 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: yoe

The "infamous" pants stuffer won't go jail because the pussies in my party (aka the GOP) don't have the will fortitude to take their jobs seriously. Don't get me started.............!


70 posted on 07/01/2005 7:07:20 AM PDT by WyCoKsRepublican
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Comment #72 Removed by Moderator

To: Baynative; EagleUSA
Anything (Berger) was attempting to do in stealing documents was done to protect someone else and at the behest of someone else. ....... We certainly know who Burglar was/is protecting. But it may go beyond that.

Nice take, both posters----it could be postulated that Berger was not covering for the Clintons as is commonly thought, but that the Archives theft was to reinforce Berger's usefulness as candidate John Kerry's ntl security advisor---to get something to use against GWB. That possibility became more apparent when it was discovered that the US Pentagon traitor Franklin gave US ntl security documents to AIPAC, and that candidate Kerry had hired Steve Grossman, a past AIPAC president as his key campaign advisor.

Suspicions arose that candidate Kerry was being coached, and that somebody might have been leaking privileged national security information to Kerry in the effort to defeat President Bush.

Berger was serving as Kerry's national security consultant when he pilfered the classified US national security documents from the National Archives.

So, the Berger theft was not as originally suspected (a Clinton cover-up)----but an attempt to compromise the 2004 election to undermine George W Bush's reelection.

Americans need to know the extent of culpability engendered by these activities--- primarily whether our President was harmed ----and whether Sen Kerry and his advisors--- Steve Grossman and Sandy Berger---played any part in undercutting the reelection chances of President Bush through the use of stolen classified documents, and, of course, the degree to which spying impaired President Bush's ability to conduct US foreign policy.

One of the most important questions Americans need to know about the connection between the Berger thievery, and the AIPAC-Pentagon treachery, is the degree to which these activities hurt President Bush and the president's 2004 campaign.

73 posted on 07/01/2005 7:39:24 AM PDT by Liz (First God made idiots, for practice. Then he made Congress. Mark Twain)
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To: Liz

One of the most important questions Americans need to know about the connection between the Berger thievery, and the AIPAC-Pentagon treachery, is the degree to which these activities hurt President Bush and the president's 2004 campaign.
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Regardless, the question remains: Why is Burglar not IN THE SLAMMER??? We continue to see examples of how CRIME IN WASHINGTON PAYS!!!


74 posted on 07/01/2005 7:55:45 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Liz

"So, the Berger theft was not as originally suspected (a Clinton cover-up)----but an attempt to compromise the 2004 election to undermine George W Bush's reelection."

There could still be some incriminating evidence against Clinton (as most of us thought) in whatever Berger stole, but at the same time this is very intriguing, and makes even more sense. Thanks for the posts.


75 posted on 07/01/2005 8:04:09 AM PDT by SeaBiscuit (God Bless all who defend America and the rest can go to hell.)
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To: SeaBiscuit

Berger needs to be in jail.


76 posted on 07/01/2005 8:17:10 AM PDT by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: SeaBiscuit; Baynative; EagleUSA
We should consider that Berger's thievery served several purposes:

(1) A coordinated attempt to coach Kerry----positioning Berger to get a Cabinet post if Kerry was elected.

(2) Covering up for the Clintons' pre-911 negligence.

(3) And finally, even after the Archives burglary, Berger was slithering around Washington involved in profiting from US government business in Iraq.

Berger's Firm to Aid Oil Interests in Iraq
By Judy Sarasohn
Washington Post Thursday, September 16, 2004; Page A29

Stonebridge International, the "global strategy firm" founded by Berger, has taken on an interesting client, Gulfsands Petroleum Ltd., a private Houston-based oil and gas company. Gulfsands, along with its larger partner Devon Energy Corp. of Oklahoma City, has oil and gas exploration and development interests in Syria. And now Gulfsands is looking to Iraq.

"Stonebridge is assisting Gulfsands in organizing meetings in Washington with administration officials to discuss the company's business interests in Iraq and U.S. policy toward Syria," Stonebridge Vice Chairman H.P. Goldfield said in an e-mail response to written questions.

Remember, this was after Berger's Archives pilfer.

77 posted on 07/01/2005 8:25:56 AM PDT by Liz (First God made idiots, for practice. Then he made Congress. Mark Twain)
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To: Liz

WOW, the plot thickens..


78 posted on 07/01/2005 8:46:15 AM PDT by SeaBiscuit (God Bless all who defend America and the rest can go to hell.)
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To: CyberAnt

LOL .. smart gets ya zip, nada, zilch in the gubamit cheese line. :-)

an aside from Berger..

Look at the trail of GBush1,, and where he has been and served..

Ambassador to China, CIA Director, VeeP and President.. failed to suash Saddam and look at his results, not that he may have had anything to do with anything much wherever he served, but .. :-)

just a thought, like anyone cares what the 'anti'Kennedy' clan has doneacting as US royalty if there is such a thing. lol


79 posted on 07/01/2005 8:54:03 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
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squash


80 posted on 07/01/2005 8:55:34 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
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