Posted on 12/21/2006 4:13:10 PM PST by NYTexan
Clinton administration National Security Adviser Samuel ‘Sandy’ Berger today said he “still can’t say for sure” what happened to several classified documents he removed from the National Archives in October 2003, but that they may have gone up in smoke.
Mr. Berger, who was convicted of the crime, fined $50,000, sentenced to 100 hours of community service and barred from the Archives for three years, allegedly smuggled out some of the documents in his socks.
Today his attorney released a statement from Mr. Berger in response to this week’s report on the Inspector General’s probe of the case.
According to Mr. Berger’s own account: “Twas nigh upon Christmas, and down in my socks I secretly stuffed those archival docs. My stockings I hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that the FBI wouldn’t look there.”
Later in his testimony he admits the documents may have fallen from his stockings into the fireplace: “As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky; so up through the chimney in ashes they flew. Thus my secrets were safe, and Bill Clinton’s were too.”
A spokesman from the Inspector General’s office expressed skepticism about Mr. Berger’s new story, but said “it has a ring of familiarity.”
In unrelated news, the New York Historical Society announced today it would launch an investigation into the disappearance of its copy of Clement Clark Moore’s poem A Visit from St. Nicholas.
Pinging the usual suspects!
(anyone wanting on or off the satire ping list, let me know!)
I'm waiting for someone to believe this..and believe me, they'll show up..ROFL
Sadly, the truth isn't a lot different. He tore them up, hid them under a construction trailer, and then the trash men came and took them away - and when he came back to get them, they were gone. Poor Sandy!
CNN Headline News: " And now the latest on Miss America and Rosie O'Donnell".
Clintonistas make the absurd surd. They are hard to satirize.
Citizen action required. I recommend physical citizens arrest on related charges with maximum media exposure.
LOL, That's about it!
If not up in smoke....it's down someones pants....
"Stuff No Evil" Berger.
I'll bet if they threw Berger's ass in prison with a 450 pound Mongolian named "Sweet Cheeks" he would remember quickly.
This guy got off so easy. But then again he is a dem. A pox on their house.
Another Democrat gets away with murder. And more are on the way and the anti-American scum Democrats surrender to the Islamic Fascist.
So Democrats are the NEW NAZI and anyone who is a Democrat as far as I am concerned is a anti-American NAZI Terrorist.
Look in Ft Marcy Park...
Sometimes stuff the Clintons get rid of turns up there.
I can't believe this. Is this real? I mean, this Burger guy...well, i don't know but to me he is just making a total mockery out of the whole thing. But then again why not? The mainstream media doesn't care since he plays on the "good guys" side as far as they're concerned. But still...this is too much what with the cute little rhyming and all. Did anyone else catch that? What was that about? Was he drunk or something? I only skimmed over the article but what a joke he is! And a disgrace too!!
Bah, i'm out of here. But before i go...Merry Christmas to all! :)
This man stole government documents from the National Archives in what looks like an attempt to obstruct justice.
Nothing will happen to him because he is a Democrat. As the former impeached, disbarred, President Clinton demonstrated, Democrats are above the law.
If one of the great UNwashed(us) would have done that.. We would be in Levenworth for the rest of our born days... Or even one of the designated security guards at the archives..
and IMHO should be dealt with accordingly ... while we still can ...
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