You know what I would have the GOP demand a congressional inquiry into the matter the email is very implicating in tht he continues to lie about the length at which was willing to go to steal the documents. The first question out of any Prosecuter must be "Mr. Berger in your position as NSA did you realize that stealing classified documents from the Archives is punishable by prison time". Yes, so therefore the risk of having them seen outweighed the consequence. If witnesses state that they saw him on more then one occasion taking documents the lie broadens. Again I submit Sandy Berger has committed the crime of the Century and goes largely unpunished for it. Imagine for one minute that Condi or Rove went back in the Archives and took some documents... Imagine the political storm that the Dems would slam Bush with. There can be no quarter if the GOP are gutless they will remain out of power.
Exactly so. Therein lies the essence of the matter. Nothing proferred by prosecution or defense adequately explains this big fat elephant in the room. I have always maintained that whatever it was that Berger took, it was more than embarrassing, it was radioactive.
I have never bought the characterization of the materials as being solely about the Milennium after-action report. Berger's serial thefts were premeditated, calculated against a risk/benefit ratio. It is illogical to imagine that Berger would have risked so much just to prevent some unflattering stuff about his boss to surface, especially since the purported subject matter was already known. I believe the materials Berger stole included something much, much more damaging--about something that hadn't been known. The millenium after-action reports memos, imho, were cover for what he really went in there for.