It's called "Greymail".
It was first used back in the early 1980s, IIRC, as part of a criminal's defense. He threatened to defend himself on the stand by revealing certain goobermint secrets.
The courts ruled that a defendant could not publically expose confidential material in public, so closed trials were ordered and the transcripts edited or sealed.
Washington needs to be renamed, Washingtoon, CYA.
And why hasn't Bergler been indicted??? Why should a Rat get preferential treatment???
It is BS about secrets being protected. The NY Times seems to have the ability to access any secret that makes Bush look bad. So why is it that other so called secrets involving the DemoRat operatives get a free pass???
Something is pretty stinky here.
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Bush continues to play this "more civil tone" crap while the Dem-seditionists throw more and more mud in his face, and are nearly ready to launch impeachment.
He should have gone after the NYTimes for leaks, even if there was no reasonable chance of conviction.
And he should have hit back HARD at these race baiting Democrats following the Hurricane Katrina devastation. SCREW THIS "FEMA WAS TO BLAME" bullcrap.
FEMA did as well as possible under the circumstances. It was the thieving Mayor Nagin and the ghetto attitudes which caused 95-percent of the problems in New Orleans.
Notice the other areas in Louisana and Fla. fared much better and are well on their way to full recovery.
Bush should have set a tone three years ago that the US was not gonna sit idly by while seditionist newspapers did the legwork for alQaeda types.
And he should have charged Berger.
And he should STILL specifically name and counter these hatemonger Democrat politicians who accuse him of lying, or worse.
For heavens sake, STOP BEING A WIMP, Mr. President!!!
Bush came into office with a Cowboy image, and has turned that into a Wimpboy image these past three years, and it turns my stomach.
And that wimp tone is a large part of the reason the GOP got drubbed so badly in '06. They were scared to fight the lamestream media. They were scared to fight back against near traiterous libs.
The thicket of Clinton hold-overs still rules the roost at DOJ. John Ashcroft was too civil to these shills. And Alberto Gonzales prefers them...
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That's my take on it. Also, the two chief reasons for this happening.
1) President Bush is too damned polite. But it's not the President's job to be polite to traitors. When you are president, you can't always follow your personal inclinations.
2) President Bush left too damned many traitors in the FBI, the CIA, and the Justice Department. These people still work for clinton, and therefore work against the administration, and therefore work against our country (not that they minded doing that even while they were in power).
I suppose reason #2 was also the mistake of being too damned polite, too ready to be bipartisan, when the other side is partisan to the core and couldn't care less if they betray their country.
This Berger affair is utterly sickening. We are not angry enough, and we are losing America to criminals and traitors.
Sandy Burglar deserved nothing less than a final meal, a cigarette, and a blindfold.
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" the decision to protect Berger may have more to do with saving the Clinton legacy than with stabilizing the nation."
No shit, Sherlock! Look into Daddy Bush and Mena smuggling while you are at it.
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There's a reason incoming administrations fire all of those who "serve at the discretion of the President". These appointees are products of their benefactors. Bush, in an effort to show he could work with the Dims, chose not to replace the Clinton people in a number of key bureaucracies...State, DOJ/FBI and CIA all come to mind and all have been a thorn in his side. But, even larger than that, the Dims control of Congress for 40 years prior to Newt made the DC based Feds products of the Dim's congress. They just outlast the Republicans when we do hold office and subvert all in the name of partisan politics...what's good for the country be darned.
It may be precisely that. It seems increasingly likely to me that the Bush & Clinton clans are quite happy to alternate control of the Whitehouse. If I'm right, look for Jeb in about 8 years...
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WOW!!
Corrupt Bush Justice Department BUMP!