Posted on 06/04/2007 1:32:17 AM PDT by neverdem
On May 17th, Sandy Berger, President Bill Clinton's National Security Adviser, voluntarily gave up his law license and with it the right to practice law. That is a stunning move for an accomplished lawyer, one of the nation's most influential public officials. Someone should take note. In fact, everyone should.
Berger previously entered a deal with the Department of Justice after he was caught stealing and destroying highly sensitive classified material regarding the Clinton Administration's handling of terrorism issues. That deal allowed him to avoid jail time, pay a modest fine, and keep his law license. It also allowed him to avoid full explanation of what he had taken and why he had taken it.
What information was worth risking his reputation, his career, and his freedom to keep hidden? And who was he risking that for?
Recently, the Board of the DC Bar, which had granted Berger his license, began asking those questions. There was only one way to stop that investigation, to keep from answering questions about what he did and why he did it, to keep the Bar from questioning his colleagues in the Clinton Administration about what had been in the documents Berger destroyed.
Berger took that step, surrendering his license, and stopping the investigation.
Ordinarily, anyone who has spent the time, effort, and money needed to master one of the "learned professions" fights with the utmost determination to keep his license. That is not merely a ticket to practice your chosen profession - it is also a badge of honor and accomplishment. Ask any doctor or lawyer, any architect or CPA, any professional at all, what it means to give that up.
That Berger didn't fight speaks volumes.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Thanks for the ping!
I’ll leave his nose out of this, but on MY screen (hooked up with my old computer), at the enlarged size, Burglar looks like he is being illuminated by the flashing red lights on top of a police car or such. ...I immediately thought “BUSTED” would be an apt caption... (except, of course, that the light-fingered one got off with a mere wrist-slap.) Still, the graphic, with its color flashing to red, is apt, I thought. If you take a look at it at a slower frame rate, I think you’ll see what I mean.
GOOD one!
RE: "PhilDragoo hasn't created an about page."
...Pity. I know where you can get some bargain web-space, if you wanted to put up a 'gallery'...! ...grin
Yer ravin’ , fer sure - but you’re no “nutter’.
Perhaps you might want to add to your excellent post the bit about the man who witnessed Clinton refusing to act when Ben Laden was in sight and orders to shoot had to be issued by teh President, who was deliberately busy playing golf, as I remember?
“The day he took office he should have sacked ALL Clinton holdovers.
He didn’t and they’ve worked against him ever since.”
Have you considered that they might be working in unison?
Recently, the Board of the DC Bar, which had granted Berger his license, began asking those questions. There was only one way to stop that investigation, to keep from answering questions about what he did and why he did it, to keep the Bar from questioning his colleagues in the Clinton Administration about what had been in the documents Berger destroyed. Berger took that step, surrendering his license, and stopping the investigation.Thanks Neverdem.
[I’ll leave his nose out of this] LOL!
Yes, devolve did a good job of making him ‘flashy’!! You posted the original gif, so thanks to you!
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I swipeth & modifieth
Don’t we all, lol.
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And maketh transparent
After all, if he is nice to the Dems, they won't be mean to him.
Thats the story, as I see it.
Afraid so.
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