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'DOCS IN SOCKS' SANDY BERGER RAPPED (feds recommend one year's probation and community service)
NY Post ^ | 9/07/05 | DEBORAH ORIN

Posted on 09/07/2005 2:48:15 PM PDT by Libloather

'DOCS IN SOCKS' BERGER RAPPED
By DEBORAH ORIN
September 7, 2005

WASHINGTON — The feds yesterday recommended that former Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger get at least a year's probation and do community service — but no jail time — for stealing top-secret memos and lying about it.

Berger pleaded guilty last April to taking the documents — and reportedly hiding them in his pants and socks — from the National Archives while vetting them to refresh his memory before testifying before the 9/11 commission.

He's to be sentenced tomorrow.

The memos were versions of a report that Berger ordered on the millennium bombing plot. ...

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: berger; classified; clinton; community; docs; documents; feds; ll; millenniumplot; nara; one; perp; probation; rapped; rats; recommend; sandy; sandyberger; sentencing; service; socks; theft; year
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To: Libloather
The feds yesterday recommended that former Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger get at least a year's probation and do community service — but no jail time — for stealing top-secret memos and lying about it.

How many years of hard time do you suppose you or I would get for the same offence?

21 posted on 09/07/2005 3:03:11 PM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: Libloather

What would you or I get if we stole top-secret government documents? No wonder citizens have very little respect left for our corrupt government.


22 posted on 09/07/2005 3:03:29 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: George Smiley
One more thing. You don't "surrender your security clearance". DSS yanks it away from you like a stolen piece of candy from a toddler. And once they've done that, there's almost never any getting it back.

Berger's plea deal calls for a 3-year suspension of his security clearance.

He will get it back in 2008.

23 posted on 09/07/2005 3:04:10 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Libloather
What an outrage..........but just SOP for democrat lawbreakers in DC.
Just wait til the GOP is in charge......................< /sarcasm >
24 posted on 09/07/2005 3:04:56 PM PDT by MamaLucci (Mutually assured destruction STILL keeps the Clinton administration criminals out of jail.)
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To: Libloather
What had it got in its pocketses?
25 posted on 09/07/2005 3:05:35 PM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: Libloather

Ya know, if it were anyone else they'd have found him in a park with a note safety pinned to his socks.


26 posted on 09/07/2005 3:05:46 PM PDT by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
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To: Libloather

Are we in Louisiana or something?

Damn.


27 posted on 09/07/2005 3:07:54 PM PDT by surely_you_jest
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To: popdonnelly

yup and a BIG UBetcha , no jailtime is an outrage,we all know something quite incriminating is gone forever and Sir Edmund Hillary Clinton slips through again


28 posted on 09/07/2005 3:08:43 PM PDT by Dad yer funny
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To: Libloather

So what does this tell the next person who wants to purge documents from the Archives? No sweat, go for it!


29 posted on 09/07/2005 3:10:32 PM PDT by Alissa
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To: Libloather

The powerful protect the powerful. Not a big surprise.


30 posted on 09/07/2005 3:10:41 PM PDT by B Knotts
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To: Libloather
Nothing to see here folks....move along....hey citizen, did you hear what I said??? move along now...
31 posted on 09/07/2005 3:10:52 PM PDT by The SISU kid (Politicians are like Slinkies. Good for nothing. But you smile when you push them down the stairs)
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To: kittymyrib
Have a look at 18 USC 793.

Don't be put off with the intent stuff at the beginning. Look at (d) and (e).

32 posted on 09/07/2005 3:11:27 PM PDT by George Smiley (This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
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To: Libloather

Sandy Berger has to know that the only safe place for him to be for the Clintons is in his grave. I don't see this guy making it to 2007.


33 posted on 09/07/2005 3:11:51 PM PDT by hflynn ( Soros wouldn't make any sense even if he spelled his name backwards)
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To: Libloather
The feds

The Feds is a pretty loose term - I want to know WHO!!!

34 posted on 09/07/2005 3:12:39 PM PDT by Alissa
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To: maryz
There were also people here suggesting that he could be a fount of information about his real purpose and all he really took. They argued that his cooperation would influence his sentencing and that was why the sentencing was so delayed. I have no idea whether they were right.

Nobody is "fingering" anybody.....

Move along.....

Nothing to see here.....

This was all too predictable.

We are nothing but a bunch of Stepford citizens......

And BIG GOB'ment treats us like it too.....

35 posted on 09/07/2005 3:13:09 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I give up........)
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To: Keith in Iowa

Is he disbarred?


36 posted on 09/07/2005 3:13:49 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: Alissa

I'm assuming it means the misnamed Justice Department.


37 posted on 09/07/2005 3:14:13 PM PDT by MamaLucci (Mutually assured destruction STILL keeps the Clinton administration criminals out of jail.)
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To: x1stcav
"The fix is in once again. And they wonder why we've had it with Washington."

Distrust of the federal government seems to be reaching levels even the crap weasels in Washington can understand.

This travesty is but one of many reasons for that distrust.

38 posted on 09/07/2005 3:15:27 PM PDT by Czar (StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: Libloather

I hope the community service part includes ritual suicide. He should be hung like the traitor he is.


39 posted on 09/07/2005 3:16:26 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Gentlemen may cry, "Peace! Peace!" -- but there is no peace. - Patrick Henry)
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To: Libloather
IBBA!

(In Before Bushie Apologists!)

40 posted on 09/07/2005 3:16:52 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
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