Archives Staff Was Suspicious of Berger

Washington Post ^ | July 22, 2004 | John F. Harris and Susan Schmidt

[Leroy S. Mort]

I read that Kerry dumped some pages from his Web Site relative to some Web Pages that can be traced back to stolen Berger Docs.

Over Here

[what's up]

They were the same documents...but with different handwritten notations on them from different Clinton officials.

At least that's my understanding.

[phxaz]

you are so right. all this crap the dems have been doing is actually traitorous. how would an open coup look any different?

[doug from upland]

They are such shameless bastards. He commits a crime and we are the bad guys.

[sissyjane]

OMG-------.............

[Peach]

Berger had to know he could be caught and probably would be caught. HE wasn't doing this to protect Clinton's legacy. It's bigger than that for him to risk what he did.

[MJY1288]

It's too late for that, this story is far too juicy for the lackeys at the Washington Post.

By Sunday, The NYT's will have no choice but to release the Hounds. This will overshadow the Dem Convention, and those who were truly negligent are going to be exposed in a very short period of time. When Bill Clinton has to chime in about how Sandy Berger was often seen buried under piles of paper at his desk and how much he and his friends laughed about this issue should tell us all that this is a big story.

Bill Clinton defends only those who are running cover for him. After Sandy Berger falls on the Sword for Klinton, he will turn on him, like all the others

[agincourt1415]

Throw another Kerry on the BAR BEE, Hillary timed this perfect.

They might start a DUMP KERRY Campaign.

[woofie]

Several days later, after he had retained Breuer as counsel, Berger volunteered that he had also taken 40 to 50 pages of notes during three visits to the Archives beginning in July, the lawyer said. Berger turned the notes over to the Archives. He has acknowledged through attorneys that he knowingly did not show these papers to Archives officials for review before leaving -- a violation of Archives rules, but not one that he perceived as a serious security lapse.

no big deal

[Palladin]

"40 or 50 pages????????"

That's a pantload, for sure.

[savedbygrace]

Lockhart was involved? Now he wouldn't talk with any reporters or editors, would he? I mean, he probably doesn't know many of them anyway. I forget, what was his position in the Clinton administration? Tehehehehe.

[Dianna]

But it was an accident, you know? He accidently kept taking the same report over and over.

I assume that the documents which have disappeared were ones taken on the first visit? After they suspected him, why would they give him originals? These people protect pretty important stuff so I wouldn't expect them to just be dumb.

OR maybe NOTHING has truly disappeared? Maybe there really are copies of everything and someone wants to give Clinton and Co a false sense of security? Wouldn't that be delicious?

[swheats]

What has Hillary said about all this? She must be creating another warroom with Flynt and CO. I've been missing in action on all this stuff.

[Howlin]

At the end of the day, Archives employees determined that that draft and all four or five other versions of the millennium memo had disappeared from the files, this source said.

Does anybody have David Gergen's home phone number? I'd like to give him a call.

[dano1]

"Breuer was hired in October, and in January former White House press secretary Joe Lockhart was enlisted to remain on standby if a public controversy blossomed."

Let me get this straight. They hired one of their best junkyard dog press secretaries for this specific scandal in January, and then they accuse the Republicans of "leaking" the story in July???

It makes Kerry look like an idiot too. Apparently the Clintons are still running the show.

[Peach]

On FNC tonight John Gibson said at the My Word segment that Fox contacted their sources (two) who confirmed that Berger was seen stuffing documents in his socks.

[MistyCA]

??? You think the dems have a shortage of ways to spin things? I remember thinking the same thing when Clinton got his ass in the crack over Monica. I have concluded that the facts don't matter to the dems and the spin machine has extraordinary teflon bearings. Never fear. They will come up with something.

[Peach]

No wonder Barbara Bush hates Gergen. He's such a flunkey for the DNC.

[phxaz]

yeah.. i regretted my bold boast immediately, lol. i was in the throes of the endorphin rush brought on by the idea.

[Remember_Salamis]

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