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Berger Will Plead Guilty To Taking Classified Paper(April 1, 2005 )
The Washington Post ^ | April 1, 2005 | John F. Harris and Allan Lengel

Posted on 03/31/2006 5:46:25 PM PST by DallasMike

Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, a former White House national security adviser, plans to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, and will acknowledge intentionally removing and destroying copies of a classified document about the Clinton administration's record on terrorism.

Berger's plea agreement, which was described yesterday by his advisers and was confirmed by Justice Department officials, will have one of former president Bill Clinton's most influential advisers and one of the Democratic Party's leading foreign policy advisers in a federal court this afternoon.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: 911; berger; bs; clinton; clintonistas; corruption; doj; nara; pants; sandyberger; terrorism; wot
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To: potlatch
Sandy Burglar...will get a slap on the wrist, maybe a small scolding, then, he'll just go skipping, smiling and whistling off into the night.

61 posted on 03/31/2006 7:08:56 PM PST by Smartass (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Smartass

Frustrating, isn't it, that politicians control us but get away with breaking the law!


62 posted on 03/31/2006 7:17:31 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: potlatch
No Some of our politicians are a pitiful lot!
63 posted on 03/31/2006 7:29:08 PM PST by Smartass (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Smartass

Some = MOST!


64 posted on 03/31/2006 7:39:34 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: Laverne
The article is dated 1 April 2005! One year ago; am I missing something?
Yeah, I was researching things at the Washington Post, did a search, and the article came up. All I saw was the April 1 date and completely misssed the fact that it was 2005.

65 posted on 03/31/2006 7:41:04 PM PST by DallasMike
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To: staytrue
april fool joke or wrong year ?
Wrong year. My bad. My very, very bad.

66 posted on 03/31/2006 7:42:29 PM PST by DallasMike
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To: DallasMike; potlatch; Smartass; devolve; PhilDragoo; onyx; Enchante

According to Bill Sammon's new book, Strategery, the documents stolen by Berger were drafts of a critique written by Richard Clarke of the Clinton administration's response to terrorist threats at the time of the millennium.
Sammon writes that Clarke's lawyer told the Washington Post that Clarke had written a "tough review" (p. 69).


67 posted on 03/31/2006 7:53:24 PM PST by ntnychik
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To: ntnychik

Bumpity bump, and I'm getting to your letter in a sec!


68 posted on 03/31/2006 8:02:36 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: ntnychik; Howlin

Right.
And Howlin is mentioned on page 144!


69 posted on 03/31/2006 8:11:50 PM PST by onyx (Elections are in November, 06 ---- 08 can wait!)
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To: ntnychik; potlatch
Clearly, Sandy Berger stoled documents from the National Archives. Doesn't matter if they were duplicates or worthless paper of nothing. It was still stored federal property and/or information, from federal property. A felony. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I bet, the USDOJ prosecutor is a Clinton holdover, and the judge a Clinton appointee. Conflict of interest, naaaaahhhh

70 posted on 03/31/2006 8:11:59 PM PST by Smartass (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Smartass

And stuffing they in his clothes....he should be arrested for being such a dumb goof! There are better words to describe it, lol.


71 posted on 03/31/2006 8:25:15 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: tet68
It wasn't the memos, it was the marginal notes and initials.

WINNER !!!!
72 posted on 03/31/2006 8:44:40 PM PST by stylin19a (I never put my foot in my mouth...I shoot that sucker off long before it gets anywhere near my mouth)
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To: onyx; Howlin

I read that chapter first! Then I happily read it again when I read the whole book. Thanks for being in the thick of it, Howlin!


73 posted on 03/31/2006 9:19:32 PM PST by ntnychik
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To: DallasMike
$10,000 fine and accept a three-year suspension of his national security clearance.

THREE YEARS? The SOB should never see another classified document in his life. It's not like he has anything to contribute. I could see the light fine, if as a condition of that, he had agreed to fully cooperate with any National Security entity, State, Defense, CIA, or whatever at their pleasure for the rest of his life. Again, not that they'd be calling on him much.

The way it is, the guy can become Hitlary's National Security Adviser, just a few months after she could take office in January 2009. Or, failing that, he could serve on (Hopefully) the minority staff of some Congressional Committee, with access to all sorts of stuff he could then sell to the ChiComs, the Russians, or even the Jihadies.

74 posted on 03/31/2006 9:21:27 PM PST by El Gato
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To: stylin19a; tet68
WINNER !!!!

Absolutely!

75 posted on 03/31/2006 9:21:30 PM PST by Howlin ("It doesn't have a policy. It doesn't need to have a policy. What's the point of a Democratic policy)
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To: ghost of nixon
So he lied as well as stole documents and destroyed them - un-freaking-believable!

They sent Martha Stuart to prison, not for insider trading, but for lying to a federal investigator, IIRC. That Berger should have been fried, not fined.

76 posted on 03/31/2006 9:28:17 PM PST by El Gato
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To: Mo1
It's from last year

Oh, Jolly that means that the three year suspension of his clearance will be up in time to step right back into the National Security Advisor slot, should a Dim be elected in '08. He can also be the National Security Advisor to the Canidate during the campaign. Un FReaking Believable.

But I was confused, since I remember the brougha from last year when this went down. Thought I was misremembering and thought that maybe last years events were just pre-sentencing jockeying.

77 posted on 03/31/2006 9:32:04 PM PST by El Gato
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To: Reily
I bet Berger still has clearances !

The article states that his clearances were suspended for 3 years, but heck one of those has passed already.

78 posted on 03/31/2006 9:33:35 PM PST by El Gato
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To: onyx

This happend a year ago.


79 posted on 03/31/2006 9:35:43 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: El Gato

As I recall, the judge in the case rejected the plea deal sentence, and that's the last I heard.


80 posted on 03/31/2006 9:36:37 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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