Posted on 10/11/2006 11:51:57 AM PDT by tobyhill
A group of House Republicans called Wednesday for a congressional investigation into the improper handling of classified documents by President Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger. Berger admitted last year that he deliberately took classified documents out of the National Archives in 2003 and destroyed some of them at his office. He pleaded guilty in federal court to one charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material and was fined $50,000.
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Election Time. Yeah that sounds about right.
way too little, way too late...
This is easily spun as spiteful McCarthyism of an issue that has alreadt been "exhaustively" investigated, and extreme penalties applied...
etc etc...
Ditto! In fact...
-PJ
I have the same feeling, and as Rush would say, "The excrement will be hitting the ventilator soon."
That destruction made no sense at all. So when Berger came along and made off with the actual documents and destroyed them, there was no backup of these docs.
And if he replaced documents with modified fakes, then there is no digital copy of the real docs to compare with the fakes and to expose them as such. Something was up and in MHO the Kerry/Clinton clan knew well before Berger that they might have to engage in a bout of historical revisionism.
Part of the plea was he would cooperate in any investigation concerning the documents. It's a fairly standard attachment to any plea.
It's election time. If they were so concerned about Burglar. Why now?
I'll tell you my thoughts. It was the good ole boy network.
Don't mess with us and we won't mess with you. Seems like
the democrats broke their "Truce".
Don't get me wrong. Sandy Burglar should have been investigated a long time ago. Should have actually gone to jail. I guess the "New Tone" thing got in the way. The "Truce" held until the scales got unbalanced with Foley.
Only now does the GOP want to balance the scales.
Pubbies emerge from abject dhimmitude!!
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"Republican Rep. Christopher Shays defended the House speaker's handling of a congressional page scandal, saying no one died like during the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident involving Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy.
"I know the speaker didn't go over a bridge and leave a young person in the water, and then have a press conference the next day," the embattled Connecticut congressman told The Hartford Courant in remarks published Wednesday.
"Dennis Hastert didn't kill anybody," he added.
Shays' comments recalled the Chappaquiddick incident, when Kennedy's car ran off a Massachusetts bridge, killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne. Kennedy did not immediately report the tragedy, and he later pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident.
Last week, Kennedy campaigned for Democrat Diane Farrell, who is locked in a bitter fight with Shays that could help determine whether Democrats recapture the House after 12 years of GOP control.
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Kennedy's office had a terse response.
"This just makes clear the real need for change in November. Beyond that I'm not going to dignify such a desperate attack with a response," said Kennedy spokeswoman Melissa Wagoner." YEAH, Melissa ... time for The Blob to leave.
It's amazing how "Conservative these Congresscritters get before an election"
Especially an election thats close.
Saving the frosting for last?
This is very good.
No, It has to do with elections.
Holy Freaking About Damn Time!
Ditto!
He's already been punished criminally.
This is just an issue to re-motovate conservatives.
That makes good sense. When the Dems whine about it being an election stunt maybe Repubs should just say sure andFoley wasn't. We wanted to talk about national security...(insert talking points)? Seeing Sandy Berger on the talkng head shows yesterday probably really PO'd quite a few people. He was a bumbling boob that clearly didn't know what he was talking about so I didn't mind seeing him show why the Dems screwed up NK but he was spinning the Clinton line nonetheless. I laughed through the whole interview.
Excellent post.
Careful probing those documents. There's no telling where they've been.
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