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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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The perp and his tools...


1 posted on 09/07/2005 2:48:26 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Out-freakin'-rageous.

Berger should do time. Serious time.


2 posted on 09/07/2005 2:49:22 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Looters: undocumented consumers || Looting: purchases with indefinite deferred payment plans)
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To: Keith in Iowa

George Washinton would have dispatched him on the spot.


3 posted on 09/07/2005 2:51:16 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Pitchforks and Lanterns..with a smiley face!)
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To: Libloather

American justice --- just-us.


4 posted on 09/07/2005 2:51:24 PM PDT by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the Mohammedans has devastated the churches of God" -Pope Urban II, 1097AD)
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To: Keith in Iowa
Berger should do time. Serious time.

...especially since it is, prima facie, obstruction of justice...

5 posted on 09/07/2005 2:52:36 PM PDT by Migraine
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To: Libloather
How long a sentence would any of us get for theft and destruction of classified federal documents? Anyone, anyone, Buhler?
6 posted on 09/07/2005 2:52:49 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired!)
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To: Keith in Iowa
Berger should do time. Serious time.

There were people here, claiming to be “in the know” that assured that the judge wouldn’t accept whatever-plea he made and that he’d be punished suitably.

It has been a long time and most have forgotten, I guess. And, of course, there are bigger events in the news nowadays…

7 posted on 09/07/2005 2:52:56 PM PDT by Who dat?
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To: Libloather

I'm lighting a candle in hope that the Judge throws out the U.S Attorney's recommendation.


8 posted on 09/07/2005 2:53:54 PM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: Libloather
and do community service

Clean up New Orleans with a toothbrush ... and not one of those fancy electric ones.

I still want to know what documents he destroyed and why he destroyed those copies of them. Who had what notes written in the margins and who told him to destroy those documents?

9 posted on 09/07/2005 2:54:31 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (We need a strict constructionist - not someone who plays shadow puppet theatre with the Constitution)
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To: Libloather

Damn...I thought the headline said this Clintonite was "raped", and I was thinking, "Wow, poetic justice does happen"!


10 posted on 09/07/2005 2:54:45 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh
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To: Libloather
"... and they think we're enemies...hehehe!"


11 posted on 09/07/2005 2:55:23 PM PDT by pageonetoo (You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
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To: popdonnelly

You might want to light a torch..aint gonna happen. The game is rigged. Time for a grassroots movement to take back the ole country im afraid.


12 posted on 09/07/2005 2:55:52 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Pitchforks and Lanterns..with a smiley face!)
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To: Who dat?

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.


13 posted on 09/07/2005 2:56:14 PM PDT by maryz
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To: popdonnelly

Well .. if the judge is a democrat - I wouldn't be holding my breath waiting for the judge to throw anything out.


14 posted on 09/07/2005 2:57:12 PM PDT by CyberAnt (America has the greatest military on the face of the earth.)
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To: Libloather
Bet it was the Able Danger ? Only slightly sarcastic.
15 posted on 09/07/2005 2:57:19 PM PDT by dts32041 (Shinkichi: Massuer, did you see that? Zatôichi: I don't see much)
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To: Keith in Iowa

The fix is in once again. And they wonder why we've had it with Washington.


16 posted on 09/07/2005 2:58:09 PM PDT by x1stcav (Hooahh!)
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To: Libloather
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.

17 posted on 09/07/2005 2:59:38 PM PDT by George Smiley (This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
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Far more amazing than the non-execution of Berger, and the lack of even a token amount of jail time, is the fact that he will REGAIN his national security clearance in three years!!!

He'll need bigger socks next time he's allowed access to our nation's most classified documents. If Hillary's the president, he can just show up with a dump truck for his haul.

18 posted on 09/07/2005 3:00:13 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Libloather

Dang. I thought that the headline read "Sander Berger Raped".

Oh, well.


19 posted on 09/07/2005 3:00:21 PM PDT by wyattearp (The best weapon to have in a gunfight is a shotgun - preferably from ambush.)
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To: George Smiley

Oh, a political flak like Burglar would get it back by executive order of some dim.


20 posted on 09/07/2005 3:01:58 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (A good friend helps you move. A great friend helps you move a body.)
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