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Sandy Berger, former national security adviser, dies
Politico ^ | 12/02/15 | Nick Gass

Posted on 12/02/2015 6:51:53 AM PST by TroutStalker

Former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, who served under President Bill Clinton, has died at the age of 70.

"V sad start to day; just learned Sandy Berger passed away during the night," Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, tweeted Wednesday morning. "Good man & friend who served nation well as bill clinton's NSA."

Antony Blinken, the current deputy secretary of state and a Berger acolyte, tweeted, "Mourn the passing of Sandy Berger --- father, husband, mentor, friend, leader and great patriot. RIP SRB."

Berger, a longtime lawyer who founded Stonebridge International, a Washington-based advisory group, after leaving government, had just been awarded World Food Program USA's inaugural Global Humanitarian Award on Tuesday.

“We are honoring one of America’s most devoted and influential humanitarian champions,” Rick Leach, the group's president and CEO, said in a statement. “On behalf of WFP USA, Sandy has been our principal voice in advocating that the U.S. and the world respond effectively to the greatest humanitarian challenge of our generation.”

Berger served as Clinton's top foreign policy adviser during the 1992 campaign before serving as deputy national security adviser and eventually national security adviser shortly after Clinton began his second term, in March 1997.

As the president's chief foreign policy aide, Berger oversaw the Clinton administration's push to expand free trade in Africa and Asia, as well as its response to the al Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa, the NATO-led bombing of Kosovo, and the efforts to forge a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. 20151201_mitch_mcconnell_2_GTY_1160.jpg

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Following his time in the Clinton administration, Berger remained an active player in Washington's foreign-policy debates, informally advising Democratic politicians, including Hillary Clinton, and publishing articles about various international issues. As secretary of state, Clinton consulted Berger on topics from how to handle Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to how to "gain leverage over the Pakistanis" and persuade them to go after al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, her emails show.

In an op-ed for POLITICO Magazine in August, Berger warned Congress against rejecting President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, writing that doing so would allow "Iran to move further toward a nuclear weapon, presenting the United States and Israel with terrible choices."

Berger's legacy was marred, however, when he pleaded guilty in 2005 to removing highly classified documents from the National Archives in Washington the previous year. The inspector general of the National Archives said that a staff member had witnessed the former NSA adviser wrapping the classified documents around his socks and under his pants.

He was fined $50,000, sentenced to two years' probation and stripped of his security clearance for three years. Following a Justice Department investigation and subsequent congressional hearings, Berger voluntarily gave up his license to practice law in 2007.

"While I derived great satisfaction from years of practicing law, I have not done so for 15 years and do not envision returning to the profession," Berger said, according to a contemporaneous Associated Press report, "I am very sorry for what I did, and deeply apologize."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/sandy-berger-national-security-adviser-216344#ixzz3tAw7qbhL


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To: TroutStalker

Will he be interred at the Library of Congress?


41 posted on 12/02/2015 7:15:11 AM PST by chuckee
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To: Dr.Deth
Wasn't he Bill Clintons water boy...?
42 posted on 12/02/2015 7:15:26 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: TroutStalker
Arkancide, baby.

Look for more Clintonistas to drop dead over the next year of "natural causes" and "mysterious circumstances."

43 posted on 12/02/2015 7:16:10 AM PST by Prole
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To: billyboy15

One can only hope that this criminal finds Righteous Justice.


44 posted on 12/02/2015 7:16:22 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: TroutStalker
The Establishment/Corruption =

American citizen =
45 posted on 12/02/2015 7:16:29 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: TroutStalker

46 posted on 12/02/2015 7:16:52 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: TroutStalker

If I recall correctly (IIRC), one of the reasons that the documents were not recovered was because he stated that he DESTROYED THEM almost immediately! This, when compared to such items as ‘Scooter’ Libby’s “Crime” which got him punished far more severely, amply demonstrates the tilt of the Beltway Establishment!


47 posted on 12/02/2015 7:19:14 AM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: TroutStalker

Check his pants.


48 posted on 12/02/2015 7:19:17 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.)
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To: TroutStalker

No, I was not named in honor of Sandy Berger. Next question.

49 posted on 12/02/2015 7:19:19 AM PST by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: billyboy15

This happened under “the nose” of President Bush.


50 posted on 12/02/2015 7:20:01 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: TroutStalker

Most of these swine are merely stuffed shirts.

The great Sandy Bergler took it to a new (low) level.


51 posted on 12/02/2015 7:20:04 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Prole

First thought.

He wasn’t that old.


52 posted on 12/02/2015 7:20:13 AM PST by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireallysupportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
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To: TroutStalker

Imagine the opportunity for Team Clinton to stuff the casket with incriminating docs and bury them forever. Sander providing one last service to Bill and Hil.


53 posted on 12/02/2015 7:20:34 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Hillary - Ethically sleazy and politically stupid)
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To: TroutStalker
Sandy Berger, former national security adviser, dies

The 'Beast tying up loose ends and doing some housekeeping to avoid "problems"?

54 posted on 12/02/2015 7:20:38 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Social Security Retirees and Vets eat dog food in order to fund 0bama's lavish vacations.)
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To: Dr.Deth

Actually, word has it that Sandy bled out during a document dump. *sniff*


55 posted on 12/02/2015 7:20:59 AM PST by alstewartfan (Sea and sky Come together in a hazy kiss upon the ocean... Al Stewart)
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To: TroutStalker
The Sandy Berger whole stole top-secrets documents from the National Archives to protect the Clintons during the 9/11 Commission hearings? That Sandy Berger? I won't speak ill of the dead....

Sandy is the one on the right in this picture of the Clinton brain-trust. William Cohen and Madeline Not-so-Bright complete the quartet.

56 posted on 12/02/2015 7:21:05 AM PST by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: TroutStalker

Arkancide


57 posted on 12/02/2015 7:21:08 AM PST by anton
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Correct!


58 posted on 12/02/2015 7:21:50 AM PST by sport
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To: TroutStalker

Rest in peace, sympathies to his family and friends, all that. Surely even a criminal Clinton apparatchik had people who cared for him.


59 posted on 12/02/2015 7:22:01 AM PST by Tax-chick (Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.)
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To: TroutStalker

The SOB destroyed pieces of history with Clinton handwritten notes to protect his boss.


60 posted on 12/02/2015 7:22:48 AM PST by doug from upland (Some of you keep telling yourself -- Romney would have been worse)
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