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 ...
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
George W. Bush: Politics over Principles
That’s how we get most of our ‘base material’, by ‘borrowing’ from others, lol.
Love this. Of course, we not only do not beat idiot voters over their collective heads (precisely what they need). ..these Repubs do not even posit the argument; the problem and it's solution.
Bet they loved being called the 'Stupid Party'. . .You were kind to them. Could be called worse, for sure. ;^)
Lol, that’s questionable!!
LOL, that’s putting it politely!
Oh, I’m always polite - except when I’m not!!
These folks are experts at 'legacy enhancement'. .. but Burglarman seems a clumsy; sloppy kind of guy attempting what he should never have attempted. Only an idiot would have stuffed documents in 'socks'. . .and walked around with a 'pantload' of papers. (Not to mention trashing them at construction site. . .while being observed.) He got away with it, for sure; but not because he was competant.
Obviously desperate measures were called for; and Sandy, was the only answer.
That said. . .still burn at the thought of this scandal. . .and find interesting, how 'pants' come to mind; and not just Berger's; when one thinks of Bill Clinton's legacy.
corr: competent. . .
Very scary in more ways than one.
Yes it is and he got off with a mere slap on the wrist.
When the director of the National Archives found out that Berger was being investigated by the FBI for stealing classified documents, the director’s first call went to.... Bruce Lindsey.
That National Archives director was subsequently fired, but many suspect that before he left he likely destroyed the originals at Lindsey’s request.
Because Hill and Bill promised him a job in her administration.
How about the accidental downing of a passenger jet over Long Island?
Living in Iowa, I'm also getting a little tired of the candidates pandering to us Iowans regarding ethanol and renewable fuels. These are fine but not unless they can stand on their own merits and not be subsidized. It's still not sufficient and we must produce our own gasoline and build new refineries.
I hope CGG. . .that all Iowan's share your feelings re the ad nauseum pandering.
Hope as well; that Mitt - though it may be too much to expect - comes out with a two-by-four; if only rhetorically, to use on any and all, mind-numbed citizens; and for sure, that means ALL Democrats. . .
That said, kudos to you, CGG, for being there. . .and sharing your opinion, where it counts or certainly, 'should count'. . .
That National Archives director was subsequently fired, but many suspect that before he left he likely destroyed the originals at Lindseys request.
John Carlin (who just happened to be the democrat former Governor of Kansas ) was the head of the Natl Archives...
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Thank you; somehow missed the 'finer print' here or just the 'rest of the story'. . . And that really finishes it, doesn't it?
Seems everything Clinton did; assumed the almost cosmic implications of 'Good' versus 'Evil'.
We have suffered many losses here; but it will take another Election to know if 'Good' prevails. . .or not. . .
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