Berger's China work makes archive heist look tame

WND ^ | 2 FEB 2007 | Jack Cashill

[radar101]

Two weeks back, the Chinese military shocked America by shooting one of China's aging satellites out of the sky with a ground-based missile. As it happens, no American played a greater role in the success of that shoot-down than the much-discussed chairman and founder of Stonebridge International, Samuel "Sandy" Berger.

I do not know whether the results pleased Berger, but I cannot imagine a better advertisement for his subsidiary, Stonebridge China.

Berger knows these circles well. During the Clinton years, according to the New York Times, he served as "the point man for the White House's China policy." That policy, unfortunately, had more to do with advancing Bill Clinton's re-election in 1996 than it did with advancing America's interests in the world.

Chief among those financing the "process" was Loral Aerospace honcho Bernard "Bernie" Schwartz.

"Maybe they did start the war," says the fictional war profiteer Minderbinder, "and maybe they are killing millions of people, but they are paying their bills a lot more promptly than some allies of ours I could name.

One can hear Schwartz making an almost identical pitch to Bill Clinton. Before this election cycle was over, he would officially donate more than $630,000 in soft money to the DNC.

In early 1996, Schwartz's money mattered. The Clintons were just beginning to smell victory. To secure it, they had to continue feeding the TV beast. They had fully ignored all FEC restrictions and were using soft money as though it were hard. Better still, the media had chosen not to see.

In February 1996, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown was dispatched to New York to pick up checks from Schwartz in person. For all his failings, it disgusted Brown that Clinton had turned him into little more than a "bagman."

[Paul Ross]

A gross tactical error on the part of the Republicans.

Compounded by W's "new tone" and "rehabilitation" of the Xlintons.

[MamaLucci]

Once upon a time, I believed that all that was needed to
finally bring down clinton's crime syndicate were
Republicans in control of the White House and Congress......
What a sad fairytale.

[MamaLucci]

Did investigators turn a blind eye to the seriousness of the Sandy Berger scandal?

Uh...............YEAH.....next question.