Posted on 05/16/2007 6:47:59 AM PDT by kellynla
The "homework" being done in the White House on the issue of a polygraph for former White House insider Sandy Berger, who admitted taking classified documents from the National Archives and disposing of them, isn't finished, presidential spokesman Tony Snow told WND.
Snow had promised a week earlier to check into the commitment made by Berger as part of a plea bargain to resolve criminal charges against him to submit to a polygraph, something that has yet to occur.
Snow was responding to a follow-up question on the issue from Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House.
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"Last week you said you would 'check into the polygraph test of Sandy Berger.' And WorldNetDaily is grateful for your willingness, and now asks, what did you find out as the result of your checking into the possibility of Sandy Berger actually being administered the polygraph he agreed to take to resolve the case of his removal of classified documents from the National Archives?" Kinsolving asked.
"A thousand pardons, my homework is not in yet," Snow said.
U.S. Rep. Tom Davis and more than a dozen other Republican members of the U.S. House also had called on U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to have the test completed.
The polygraph was part of the resolution of a case that developed in the spring of 2002 and the fall of 2003. That was when Berger, former President Clinton's national security adviser, visited the National Archives to review classified documents to prepare for being interviewed by the 9/11 Commission.
He took some documents and disposed of them, and later pleaded guilty to charges stemming from his actions. As part of his plea agreement to resolve those charges, he agreed to take a polygraph test about the circumstances.
"Berger's actions portray a disturbing breach of trust and protocol that compromised the nation's national security," Republicans on the House Oversight Committee said in a prepared statement.
WND has reported that Clinton signed the letter authorizing Berger's access to the classified documents that later came up missing.
Berger pleaded guilty in April 2005 to one misdemeanor count of removing a classified document and was given two years probation, 100 hours of community service, a $50,000 fine and revocation of his security clearance for three years.
In a second question, Kinsolving asked about the status of World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, who has been caught up in a scandal in which he apparently participated in a process to decide on a raise for a bank worker with whom he'd been linked romantically.
"In view of the extensive media coverage, there are millions of Americans who are wondering, how does the president, as a devout Christian and faithful husband, believe that the Bush administration is rightfully serving this country and providing moral guidance to our young people by saying that it is not a firing offense for a man who boosted the salary of his mistress to head the World Bank?" Kinsolving asked.
"Well, I believe what we are talking about here is so-called firing offenses in terms of personnel policies and communications," Snow said. "I like the fact that you presented it in a colorful and moralistic way, but I don't believe that those particular issues were the proximate issues before the World Bank, or before the president, or before the board of governors at the World Bank."
Snow confirmed that the White House continues to support Wolfowitz. "He has made it clear that he made mistakes. It is pretty clear also that there were problems … The fact is that he made mistakes; they're not, in our views, firing offenses."
"Honey, I knew those copies of F.B.I. files would come in handy."
It just tells me that there’s plenty of dirty laundry on both sides of the aisle.
Here is the lie detector test I would like to see:
“Sandy, are you a fat lying bastard who stole security documents on orders from the clintoon’s?”
Actuall test I expect:
“Sandy, do you like cheese?”
Which will be announced as “we completed the test and the burglar was truthful”
pouch-face needs one day in abu ghraib and then maybe we’ll find out the truth-i recall when bernie nussbaum and susan thomases were lying to protect the hildebeast after the foster death it seemed that if nussbaum could just be stuck in the Parris Island i went through in 1965,the whole story would follow-and now the hildebeast would be in prison instead of running for the nation’s highest office(i still can’t imagine her getting in-it would be the end of this country as we know it)-there is a certain type of worm that infests the corridors of power that conceals everything we need to know-and it isn’t just berger,nussbaum,et al-both major parties are thoroghly compromised
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Snow: “Yes, we support the firing of anyone who hires a mistress, relative or who simply lives together, whether in the World Bank, the UN, in Congress or in major media organizations, and then uses that position to enrich the man or woman.”
Snow: “Lets start with major media first, then the UN.”
no need...
Give me five minutes and a full tub of water and I’ll have Fat Sandy singing like a canary. :-]
Semper Fi,
Kelly
I hereby volunteer to be prime inquisitor. Just let me get my pliers, car battery and garden hose.
I might need some helpers. Anybody care to join me?
The larger story is that Bush is collaborating in the cover-up.
The left calls the right evil. The right calls the left evil.
They are BOTH telling the TRUTH!
Now, why am I not surprised? And our elected officials are pretending to be surprised that is if they are even listening that we want them gone.
I guess a good dose of good riddence is in order. Vote them out of office. There are people around who could do so much better.
how about a can of soda,duct tape for the mouth and a tissue to plug one nostril-some assembly required :))??
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