Some of our politicians are a pitiful lot!
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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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.
Frustrating, isn't it, that politicians control us but get away with breaking the law!
Some of our politicians are a pitiful lot!
Some = MOST!
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.
Wrong year. My bad. My very, very bad.
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).
Bumpity bump, and I'm getting to your letter in a sec!
Right.
And Howlin is mentioned on page 144!
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
And stuffing they in his clothes....he should be arrested for being such a dumb goof! There are better words to describe it, lol.
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!
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.
Absolutely!
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.
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.
The article states that his clearances were suspended for 3 years, but heck one of those has passed already.
This happend a year ago.
As I recall, the judge in the case rejected the plea deal sentence, and that's the last I heard.
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