Posted on 07/13/2005 5:04:59 PM PDT by SueRae
Sandy Berger's Sentencing Postponed
Sentencing for former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, who pled guilty in April to stealing and destroying top secret terrorism documents from the National Archives, has been delayed, NewsMax.com has learned.
Asked why Berger wasn't sentenced as scheduled on Friday, July 8, a Justice Department spokesman told NewsMax on Tuesday that Berger's sentencing has been postponed till September.
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The spokesman declined to offer an explanation for the delay. Repeated calls asking about the postponement to Berger's lawyer, Washington, D.C. attorney Lanny Breuer, went unreturned.
Federal District Court's U.S. Magistrate Deborah Robinson, who is presiding over the Berger case, also did not return a call inquiring about its disposition.
After Justice Department prosecutor Noel Hillman allowed Berger to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, he requested what some consider an extraordinarily light sentence given the gravity of the crime - a $10,000 fine, a three-year suspension of Berger security clearance and no jail time.
The recommendation for leniency was in stark contrast to the comments of Deputy Attorney General James Comey, who suggested after the document theft story broke that Berger could be headed to jail.
"We take issues of classified information very, very seriously," Comey told reporters, before adding, "All felonies in the federal system bring with them the promise of jail time, that's all I can say about that."
Prosecutor Hillman's recommendation would still have to be approved by Magistrate Robinson, a prospect that is expected but not assured.
Under Justice Department guidelines, Berger's misdemeanor plea could still yield a $100,000 fine and a year in prison.
Since the announcement of Berger's light sentence, several online petitions have sprung up, urging Magistrate Robinson to impose a stiffer penalty.
It's not clear whether the delay in Berger's sentencing has anything to do with a reluctance on Robinson's part to accept Hillman's recommendation.
I'll take, "Stories that will never be mentioned by the MSM," for $7,000 Alex.
Well, I don't really think I'm getting into the 'ten thousand points of light' category here, but THANKS, just the same.
(...grin)
Thanks for the ping!
Yes Ma'am.
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After the plea deal was announced, the NY Post reported that the probe “seems to have shifted to whether Clinton appointees at the Archives tried to cover for Berger. Archives chief John Carlin, a Clinton appointee, was bounced soon after the incident. It's a violation of law to take classified documents, so Archives staffers should have called the FBI when they saw Berger do it — instead, they called Clinton's Mr. Fix-it, lawyer Bruce Lindsey."
And as for the prosecutor in the case, Noel Hillman? Wait until you get a load of what the linked story has to say about him. WOW! - - what a scumbag!
Ain't happening.. this is not goin away.. Berger skates, the pubbies pay big time.. Some people will NEVER FORGET... Berger FRIES or hells to pay.. Martha Stewart gets the ax for lieing and Berger SKATES for THIS.?. The AG is courting disaster on his own reputation.. We're watching Al...
Rove is being framed by the Democrats and their allies in the dying socialist "mainstream" liberal newsrooms, and at the height of their frenzy, Berger's sentencing is mysteriously delayed. No. It is NOT a coincidence. I do not believe in coincidences when it comes to the hardball politics of Dirty City.
Bush and Co. have something up their sleeves. Fasten your seatbelt.
By the way, Magistrate Robinson was appointed in 1988.
This proves, yet again, that Karl Rove should be fired! lol
No, we need Karl for cover, can't have Burger being fried on front page!
He's a weasel and a coward, so the possibility exists that, to avoid sentencing, he's agreed to drop dime on various other cads from the Clintocracy. Alas, one of the possible cads would not be HIllary.
I don't either.. I'm strapped to my chair, tin foil hat on.. and making motorcycle noises.. lets get it on... LoL...
Thanks for the ping! Another great graphic. :o)
THANK YOU, Ma'am!
'- "It's reasonable to conclude that disposal (cutting up the docments) was a better alternative than sneaking them back (into the archive),"
- “(Berger) may have lied to the press when he suggested he did it by mistake, but lying to the press isn't a federal crime. If he had lied to US, we would have prosecuted”'
Thanks.
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A Threat to America =
BERGER's guaranteeing that the launching of American Space Satellites from inside Communist China would not result in the Chinese getting a hold of our own precious Missile and Space Satellite technology...
...when it quickly did..!!!
The CLINTONS' refusing 3 free offers from the Sudan during the 1990's to give us our No. 1 Terrorist Enemy OSAMA bin LADEN on a silver platter...
...before he could hit us real hard here at home after they had left the White House.
The Enemy is now Within...
and always has been.
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Bump to me to read your link later, after re-lining my stomach with stainless steel....
Thanks for the ping
Hang 'em High ~ Bump!
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