'DOCS IN SOCKS' SANDY BERGER RAPPED (feds recommend one year's probation and community service)

NY Post ^ | 9/07/05 | DEBORAH ORIN

[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. ...

[The_Victor]

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?

[kittymyrib]

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.

[dead]

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.

[MamaLucci]

What an outrage..........but just SOP for democrat lawbreakers in DC.
Just wait til the GOP is in charge......................< /sarcasm >

[NutCrackerBoy]

What had it got in its pocketses?

[mtbopfuyn]

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

[surely_you_jest]

Are we in Louisiana or something?

Damn.

[Dad yer funny]

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

[Alissa]

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

[B Knotts]

The powerful protect the powerful. Not a big surprise.

[The SISU kid]

Nothing to see here folks....move along....hey citizen, did you hear what I said??? move along now...

[George Smiley]

Have a look at 18 USC 793.

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

[hflynn]

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.

[Alissa]

The feds

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

[Osage Orange]

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.....

[Natural Law]

Is he disbarred?

[MamaLucci]

I'm assuming it means the misnamed Justice Department.

[Czar]

"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.

[thoughtomator]

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

[Revolting cat!]

IBBA!

(In Before Bushie Apologists!)