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 ...
THE RICH AND POWERFUL PROTECT THE RICH AND POWERFUL
A better question: Just what can I take out of the National Archives and NOT suffer a jail term? Ask them THAT question!
Didn't we used to hang spies?
He should be in Leavenworth. Or better yet in the noose.
And Martha Stewart got five months jail time for lying to an SEC investigator?
I would think the only way he gets off so lightly is if he rats out the people who put him up to his little indiscretion.
Regards,
GtG
He lost it for ONLY 3 years.
Does anyone know what judge this case is before?
He gets off because it's really one big club in Washington.
They all believe they are special. Has one single lost their job over 9/11?
They may be part of different parties, but they are ALL MEMBERS OF THE BIGGER CLUB. It's sickening
That's the same as my son got for underage drinking.
WOW
Feds recommend...
wishing and hoping until sentencing...
Just heard on Rush: Sentence was fine of $50,000 and two year's probation, so the judge exceeded the recommendations.
Good for her.
we don't we hang spies anymore?
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