Berger And Lies

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 12/21/2006 | E&P

[Laverne]

Equal Justice: Sandy Berger deliberately pilfered and hid classified documents. So why is Scooter Libby the one facing prison time? And why aren't these docs on the front page of the New York Times? National Archives Inspector General Paul Brachfield on Wednesday released a report showing that in 2004 Berger, President Clinton's national security adviser, "knowingly removed classified documents from the National Archives and Records Administration and stored and retained such documents at places," including temporarily under a construction trailer outside the main National Archives building. This seems to blatantly contradict the feeble mea culpa Berger issued when in the summer of 2004 he was caught removing said documents and stuffing them into his clothing, documents that directly contradicted his testimony before the 9/11 Commission.

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So why is Scooter Libby the one facing prison time? And why aren't these docs on the front page of the New York Times?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I bet $10 that this story wouldn't make the Nightly News with Brian Williams.
Guess the Denver snowstorm sucked up all the oxygen, eh ?

[Defender2]

#20. the doublestandard is in use and being supported by the enemedia.

Democrats can say and do anything. Republicans get destroyed for anything.

Works when the enemedia is truly on the wrong side, which they are.

:-(

[popdonnelly]

This was in Editor & Publisher? I've seen everything.

[popdonnelly]

The mainstream news media has its own "culture of corruption."

[UnklGene]

[Carl LaFong]

No -it was in the Editorial and Opinion section of Investors Business Daily website. I thought the same thing as well.There's no way those lib elite snots would opine something like this.

[roses of sharon]

Well Clinton did fire all US att, and put his own in office.

Perfect, a DOJ and CIA full of leftists.

We had better have a ruthless SOB for a nominee in 08.

[kilowhskey]

The contrast between the treatment of Libby and Berger has me blind with rage. As far as I'm concerned, the Justice Department should simply level with the American public and announce: "Equal Justice Under Law is suspended until further notice."

[mcshot]

You beat me to the keypad.
I say firing squad....nay.. stoning.

[nopardons]

bttt

[Asfarastheeastisfromthewest...]

The fact that I can't even get a liberal to comment on it tells me that they're terrified of the story.

I tell you what I find surprising as I read the threads here on FR on this is that there is as much outrage and surprise as there is at this point in time. Wait a minute.... weren't all these details known or at least accurately surmised by smart Freepers before? We've already known for a long long time that Berger stole the documents with all their incriminating notations in them, destroyed them, replaced them with who knows what, got a slap on the wrist for it, media paid almost no attention to the 'why' of this story but lots of smart Freepers (as usual) figured out exactly what the motivation was - that being that the actions that Berger risked in the NA was so extreme that the documents that he stole had to contain incredibly damning information to the Clinton regime and it all has to do with 9/11..... and thus the 9/11 report is a farce and all the crooks slink off scot-free. So what's new to be outraged about? Hasn't all this unfolded just about as predicted here a long time ago? Did anyone really expect Berger to get something stronger, the rest of the crooks meet their just reward or even for the media to think beyond being lapdogs for the Democrats on this story?

[wodinoneeye]

WHAT did Clinton know?


And WHEN did he know it ? .....


Coverup.....

[JerseyJohn61]

I saw John Ashcroft interviewed on FNC a few weeks ago.
I think it was in the middle of a workday, so the
interview received little attention. At the conclusion,
he was very candid and revealed some of the information
that Burger was after at the archives.

Late in Clinton's administration, some of his advisers
finally wizened up and realized that Bin Laden and
Al Qaeda were a troubling threat. Now it was becoming
more than just a "law enforcement" situation with that
terror group. So they sat down and drew up plans for a
"serious" task-force to track and go after Osama and co.
However, these plans were never implemented and news
of these planned actions were never passed on to Bush's
incoming advisers.

Documents on the planned "task-force", Ashcroft said,
is also what Burger was after. He wished to bury any
of this additional info on Clinton's fecklessness. In
other words, "if you knew he was dangerous, why didn't
you do more to get him?".

Thinking back now, the State Department's "Transition
Report" that the Clintonista's gave to Bush 43, had next
to nothing in it to say about Bin Laden and Al Qaeda.
One of the two was mentioned once while the other was
not mentioned at all. That was all that was covered in
a 900 page document, that is require to be given by the
State Department, in order to bring the new administration
"up to speed" on international affairs....JJ61

[Laverne]

Not only coverup by the Clinton administration, but clear collusion will all mainstream networks (ABCCBSNBC). NOT A SINGLE NETWORK REPORTED THIS TONIGHT, NOT ONE! Immagine that. These so-called "news" networks are a laughing stock.

[repvetsyiydli]

All of the Clinton cronies have been treated by the Bush admin with kid gloves.

Makes you wonder what they have on Jr.

[murdoog]

The Jay Rockerfellow story was ignored by .....

What Jay Rockefeller story? Are you talking about the letter to Exxon/Mobil or is this something I don't know about.

[Lancey Howard]

And why aren't these docs on the front page of the New York Times?

???
Why would a DNC organ do anything to damage the Democrat party?

[malia]

I hang my head --- and I thanks for not making issue of mis-spelling of Jay Rockefeller's name.

"Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) on "Fox Sunday" on November 14, 2005,"

snip "I took a trip by myself in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had already made up his mind to go to war against Iraq – that that was a predetermined set course which had taken shape shortly after 9/11."

http://macsmind.blogspot.com/2006/01/on-rockefeller-like-fly-on.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1571529/posts


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1558268/posts


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