Berger Pleads Guilty To Taking Materials

There is zero evidence that the "Bush administration" disclosed the Berger affair. Many of us at the time figured it was a matter of the dems/clintoninstas leaking it in order to make that accusation and also be able to claim later it was "old news".

Berger is cooperating and I would think if he doesn't (continue?) it will affect this deal.

I wonder how they got him to admit to the level of detail of using scissors to destroy some documents?

I find that fascinating.

I find it fascinating that Martha Stewart is considered as more of a criminal. She would have been glad to pay and walk.

CODE Level Documents. Want some free? Call Sandy Berger.

America has sunk 10 more rungs with a perp who walks whereas
anyone else would go to prison for a long long long long time.

"WELCOME TO THE REAL AMERICA WHERE CRIMINALS GET TO BE
CELEBRITIES AND CELEBRITIES GET AWAY WITH MURDER."
"TO DIE FOR" Columbia Pictures

Secretary of Defense Cohen, Impeached Bill Clinton, Albright, and long-accepted CODE-level thief
and document destroyer National Security Adviser Sandy Berger,
holding court in the Ronald Reagan Building on April 25, 1999
The Impeached Bill Clinton: "We were all making comments
we shouldn't have about how the meeting was getting very boring.
So finally we decided we had to make like the monkey. Cohen
started this 'hear no evil,' and then I was next so I spoke no evil,
then Madeleine saw no evil, so Sandy Berger said, 'I'm evil.'"

Sandy Berger-Burglar was a key beneficiary of "Gorelick’s Wall"
TIME, "The Ubiquitous Mr. Fix-It", Adam Cohen

John Kerry was a key beneficiary of Berger's Burglaries
Rescued: Data the Kerry/Edwards Campaign Tried to DELETE from its site! (grandpa dave found cache)

Berger purloined all draft revisions of a key critique of the government's response
to the millennium terrorism threat, a document that detailed Administration knowledge
– and inaction – regarding al Qaeda presence in the U.S. in 1999
and 2000. Stolen were crucial notes in the margins of these drafts
which reveal the thinking and agendas of the
Clinton Administration relating to the mounting terrorist threat.
Washington Post, "Berger Quits as Advisor to Kerry", Susan Schmidt

Berger was not qualified as NSA.
He was a millionaire lawyer and lobbyist with a career centered on expanding trade with China.
Tom Laughlin, http://www.billyjack.com/jung/08_politics/articles/990515_spy.html

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh opined that
Burger “was a public-relations hack, interested in how something would play in the press” .
The New Yorker, per http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200311030753.asp

Dick Morris noted Berger “seemed to work overtime
at opposing tough measures against terror”,
advising vetoes of legislation aimed at crippling Iranian terror funding
and working to block antiterror sanctions.
Wall Street Journal, "While Clinton Fiddled", Dick Morris, http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=95001824

Berger repeatedly rebuffed Sudanese offers to hand Osama bin Laden
to the United States in a deal brokered by a $900,000 contributor to Democrat campaigns.
Source 1 - National Review, "Clinton & Khobar", Rich Lowry

Source 2 - Washington Times, "Miniter Responds", Richard Miniter

Berger allowed bin Laden and his top lieutenants to escape to Afghanistan.
NewsMax, "Aide: Clinton Unleashed bin Laden", Chuck Noe

Berger was singled-out by UN Inspector Scott Ritter for the collapse of UN inspections efforts in Iraq].
"Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem - Once and for All" by Scott Ritter

Berger admitted that the Clinton Administration failed to develop a war plan to fight al Qaeda
National Review, "Warning B.S.", Rich Lowry

Berger was the "go-to" man regarding China policy
when Communist Chinese money was being funneled into Democrat Party coffers
in exchange for policy concessions, strategic nuclear technology,
and all pending patent applications at the US Patent Office.
The Hill, "Fundraiser resurfaces from 1996", Sam Dealey

Berger stonewalled the Energy Department about Chinese spying in Los Alamos for three years.

It was Berger who for Hillary Clinton let bin Laden go
both from the Sudanese and was he was briefly vulnerable to missile attack.
[e.g. US News & World Report, Paul Bedard, 15 Mar 2003]

"Mr. Berger, calling Mr. Sandy Berger. THIS IS IMPORTANT. Please. This is urgent.
We can take out Osama, now. Please answer!!! We have him in our sight."

Berger-Burglar: "Nope. Forgetaboutit. No big deal. Bill and I are too busy watching the West Wing on TV."

"I was summoned to the office of National Security adviser Sandy Berger,
who chewed me out for not having a national security adviser (on the West Wing).
So I opened the next season with Anna Deavere Smith as the national security adviser" -
Aaron Sorkin

Do the implications of "cooperating" not sound any alarms?

I think this is great.

Wow I bet his penalty really hurt.

The Washington Post article is the best, I think.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20050401/ts_washpost/a16706_2005mar31

"...The Berger associate authorized to speak with reporters described the chronology the former national security chief gave to the Justice Department in his negotiations with the Justice Department. On Sept. 2, 2003, the associate said, Berger put a copy of the Clarke report in his suit jacket. He did not put it in his socks or underwear, as was alleged by some Republicans last summer. On Oct. 2, 2003, he again spent hours at the archives and took four more versions of the document. Back in his office, he studied them in detail, realized they were largely identical, and took the scissors to three of the copies, the associate said...."

Let me repeat:

"...Back in his office, he studied them in detail, realized they were largely identical, and took the scissors to three of the copies, the associate said...."

"largely idenitical"

Which means the were NOT identical. That's the reality and how the memos should be described.

Additionally, if Berger's motive was save the government the burden of file copies or whatever, he would have chopped up not 3 but 4 of the 5 papers.

Watch your back, Sandy.

Berger would serve no jail time but pay a $10,000 fine, surrender his security clearance for three years and cooperate with investigators.

And to make it double, extra harsh...no TV for a week.

Ms. Kaiser Sose:"Fetch the files on every one of
our judges involved, from our 950 ~~stolen FBI files~~,
I mean, 'badges-of-courage', Short-one."

"There is zero evidence that the "Bush administration" disclosed the Berger affair."

It's ridiculous. Bush supporters would have leaked the info much later - and certainly after Berger gave his DNC speech.

Demo damage control.

"Do the implications of "cooperating" not sound any alarms? I think this is great."

I'm with you. Burglar is a coward and was facing some big, big charges. I will not get my hopes up, hoping to be pleasantly surprised with additional players...

Thank you...you're right. Those are very interesting details.

We know all too well better than to get our hopes up too high, but you're right, the fact that they got him to plead to this means they must him by the you-know-whats.

under a plea agreement that still must be approved by Robinson, Berger would serve no jail time but pay a $10,000 fine, surrender his security clearance for three years and cooperate with investigators.

Perhaps he got off so lightly because "cooperating with investigators" will include ratting out the Clinton cabal.

Nah. Probably not.

You think this is a joke. This SOB is covering up what led to the 911 Atrocities.

He changed and destroyed evidence of CODE LEVEL documents on more than one occasion.
and you accept it as if it was jaywalking. I submit that during War, President Washington would have hung him publicly.

Ping to an article about the plea being entered.

"...The Berger associate authorized to speak with reporters described the chronology the former national security chief gave to the Justice Department in his negotiations with the Justice Department. On Sept. 2, 2003, the associate said, Berger put a copy of the Clarke report in his suit jacket. He did not put it in his socks or underwear, as was alleged by some Republicans last summer. On Oct. 2, 2003, he again spent hours at the archives and took four more versions of the document. Back in his office, he studied them in detail, realized they were largely identical, and took the scissors to three of the copies, the associate said...."

Another reason Berger's spokesman is slick - see how he puts the "socks" issue on the first document, but doesn't state how the later documents were pilfered.

That's very confident. Part of the agreement must be that the govt. won't talk and Berger gets to spin the story without contradiction.

Final point: Scissors? Wouldn't a former intelligence official have a shredder? Sheesh.

Why on earth do you say I think this is a joke?

I am not the one dismissing this plea.

No, I take this very seriously, indeed.