Posted on 01/11/2005 11:41:41 PM PST by kattracks
Former Clinton White House Mr. Fix-It Bruce Lindsey emerged tight-lipped yesterday after testifying before a federal grand jury probing whether top-secret documents were illegally removed from the National Archives.The grand jury probe, reported exclusively in The Post Tuesday, is digging into why another former Bill Clinton aide, Sandy Berger, sneaked the national security documents out of the Archives — possibly in his socks.
Lindsey denied any inside knowledge about Berger's sticky fingers.
"All I know is what he [Berger] said. He made a public statement," said Lindsey, Clinton's deputy White House counsel, after testifying under oath yesterday.
Berger admits walking off with 40 to 50 top-secret documents from the archives, but claims it was an "honest mistake" while vetting documents for the 9/11 commission.
Berger has admitted destroying some documents — he says by mistake.
Lindsey declined comment on what he told the grand jury, but denied reports that he met with Berger in New York for crisis control as the scandal erupted last summer.
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Among the documents Berger lifted were multiple drafts of a report assessing the 2000 millennium threat that is said to conclude that only luck prevented a terrorist attack then.
That conflicts with Berger's sworn testimony to the commission — he claimed "we thwarted" millennium attacks by being vigilant, not lucky.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
OMG...
The warnings were among the documents that Mr. Berger removed from the National Archives earlier this year.
Sandy Berger has been the subject of a criminal probe since October. Former federal prosecutor Joe DiGenova notes that the length of this probe against the understanding that Berger has not yet been interviewed by the FBI indicates a potentially serious charge.
Judge Nepolitana also told, IIRC, John Gibson that Berger was in SERIOUS trouble. I think they said he could do about 550 years in prison if convicted. lol!~ Now that is my kind of punishment! I hope the Clintons have a jail cell next to him.
I would be satisfied with house arrest and a prohibition from ever speaking in public again.
Lawyers for the commission reviewed 10,800 pages of classified documents from the Clinton administration this week after Bruce Lindsey, who was Clinton’s legal adviser, said officials did not turn over all of Clinton’s records.
No kidding, Bruce. Maybe because they were stuffed in Berger's pants.
I want to see all those pundits who defended Berger as just being "sloppy" eat crow. I have a long list of those people, and I look forward to seeing them humiliated.
Lost in Translation National Review
September 30, 2004, 8:18 a.m.
Readers of the New York Times learned this week that "more than 120,000 hours of potentially valuable terrorism-related recordings have not yet been translated by linguists at the Federal Bureau of Investigation."The problem is not new. In fact, the FBI told the Clinton administration it had an Arabic-translator shortage, according to the New York Post:
Urgent complaints that the FBI could not decipher bugged conversations between members of a Brooklyn mosque and Afghan terrorists because it lacked translators were included in the documents former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger removed from the National Archives.
Now why would Sandy Berger, at the time an informal Kerry campaign adviser, be so interested in covering up a translator shortage that continued well into the Bush administration? Because Clinton-administration language policies only made the problem worse.
On August 11, 2000, Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 13166. E.O. 13166 required all recipients of federal funds, including a "federally funded zoo or theater," to be able to provide translations into any language on demand, including rare or obscure languages spoken by only a handful of people.
E.O. 13166 would have enabled professional ethnic activist groups to grow ever richer by filing lawsuits against state, county, and city governments for failing to provide translations into Spanish or any other language. Your local DMV could be sued for failing to do what the FBI itself could not do with regard to interpreting Arabic, Pashto, and Urdu.
Only the Supreme Court's 2001 ruling in Alexander v. Sandoval put a temporary stop to what would have been a gold-plated gravy train for these anti-assimilation outfits and their trial-lawyer pals.
But the E.O. 13166 language-translation mandate remains the law of the land, forcing a desperate FBI to compete for Arabic translators with Ames, Iowa, hospitals; Nome, Alaska, unemployment offices; and every other federally funded entity anywhere in these United States.
As one might expect when a federal mandate increases demand for a limited supply of talent, the FBI's translation problems have only gotten worse. The 9/11 Commission Report documents what the FBI is up against: "The total number of undergraduate degrees granted in Arabic in all U.S. colleges and universities in 2002 was six."
The increased demand has led to a lowering of standards and an opportunity for America's enemies to derail our anti-terrorist activities from the inside, as a CBS News 60 Minutes report, "Lost in Translation," detailed:
In its rush to hire more foreign language translators after Sept. 11, the FBI admits it has had difficulty performing background checks to detect translators who may have loyalties to other governments — which could pose a threat to U.S. national security.Take the case of Jan Dickerson, a Turkish translator.... The FBI has admitted that when Dickerson was hired the bureau didn't know that she had worked for a Turkish organization being investigated by the FBI's own counter-intelligence unit.
They also didn't know she'd had a relationship with a Turkish intelligence officer stationed in Washington who was the target of that investigation.
The source for this report, Sibel Edmonds, told the 9/11 Commission that Kevin Taskesen, a Turkish translator, had failed all FBI language-proficiency tests and "could not understand or speak even elementary-level English." Yet Taskesen, according to Edmonds, "was sent to Guantanamo Bay to translate."
If the FBI is so desperate for interpreters that someone as unqualified as Taskesen can be placed in such a key role, surely a senator like John Kerry, who claims he would be a superior guardian of our national security, would not be seeking to add to the FBI's translator shortage.
Yet Kerry and his running mate, John Edwards, are both co-sponsors of Sen. Tom Daschle's "Health Care Coverage for Minorities" legislation (S.1833), which would require these scarce translation resources to cool their heels while awaiting a potential speaker of Arabic or Farsi to turn up in a Fargo, North Dakota, emergency room.
Since everyone knows that the FBI needs more translators, anything that keeps the FBI from hiring those translators, like Executive Order 13166 or S.1833, should be dropped like a hot potato.
Were President Bush to repeal E.O. 13166, something he can do with the stroke of his pen, he would force Kerry to choose between continuing to play ethnic politics and defending the president's action as necessary during a time of war. Chances are good Kerry would try to have it both ways, thus alienating both his base and swing "national security" voters.
— Jim Boulet Jr. is executive director of English First.
BUMP for later.....
If those were National Security documents he could face prison for 10 years for each document. Five hundred years is a long time in jail. What these people won't do for Bill and Hilly.
This event is worthy of an Arkancide, but I don't think the toons have that capacity anymore.
I wonder if Berger has the guts to do it himself?
Wonder 'if' Hillry was in attendance in any of these meetings?
There is a thread or two somewhere on FR about Lindsey and Burger sitting next to Clinton as Clinton testified privately to the 9/11 Commission.
Not much was made of it in the MSM and what little mention there was says that Clinton's recall was good enough he didn't need to confer with either Lindsey or Burger.
We noted at the time that Bush was made such fun of because in his private testimony to the 9/11 Commission he was attended by Cheney and one other person. Was it Rice?
And I hope the grand jury asks if Berger put anything back...
I think it's entirely possible that Berger wasn't just taking documents OUT of the room but putting documents in. Documents that will innoculate Clinton from criticism that he didn't do anything to prevent a 9/11 style attack.
This Agape article mentions that Berger was caught on video surveillance. I know that now the Archive people deny they have such surveillance. But that flies in the face of common sense.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1175855/posts
You're absolutely right about that, good remembering.
Hillary was co-president.....that's what the Clintons billed themselves as (/sarc).
Besides, this crafty ambitious femiNazi made sure she was in on everything, so she could use it later in a bid for higher office.
Authorities are probably also checking out Berger's cell phone calls during the times he was in the Archives.
Remember, he kept throwing out Archives monitors saying he had to make personal calls.
Who was he calling?
And was he using a picture phone? Maybe snapping and sending pictures of documents to someone?
Bill Clinton sent Sandy Berger to the archives to steal and destroy the documents so the 9/11 commission would not get the chance to see them and include them in their report.
Bruce Lindsey became involved only after Berger was busted in order to protect Clinton (who reviewed the documents Berger stole).
Berger will keep his mouth shut for fear of being Fostered.
He will become someone's gay bride in prison while Bill and Hitlery will laugh at his plight.
One of these days...the Clintons will be exposed.....
.....perhaps it has something to do with the Oil for Food program...remember...Bill and Hillary Clinton played a big role in pardoning a lot of "terrorist" groups....as well as Marc Rich...who is now right in the thick of the Oil for Food scandal.......
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