Posted on 04/02/2005 6:17:05 AM PST by conservativecorner
"Obviously he reviewed the notes on the five documents and destroyed the three that contained information damaging to the reputation of the Clinton administration."
Exactly. That is the obvious, plausible explanation and every MSM tool who parrots the line that Berger "only destroyed copies" is either too stupid or too biased (usually both) to merit any position in the news media.
It was obvious from the first instant that there had to be something terribly embarrassing to the Clinton administration for Berger to risk everything to try to get at it and destroy it. Once again we get a lesson in grotesque media bias and ignorance. Bergergate should be bigger than Watergate, since it involves destroying highly classified national security documents to cover up malfeasance at the highest levels, malfeasance which led to the deaths of thousands of Americans. It is ridiculous to believe Berger went to these lengths to destroy merely identical copies of documents..... even an elementary school student should be able to figure out that he and his pals had something very embarrassing to hide, pertaining to Clinton administration (mis-)handling of terrorism issues. The matters involved here are far weightier than what was at stake in Watergate....
Three year suspension=I want to serve Hillary if she can win.
I was just thinking the same thing. I had all but forgotten this story. Can you imagine if it had been a Republican stuffing documents down his pants!? I'll never understand this double standard and why the RATS get away with so much!
You got that right.
But why did he do it,and who did he do it for?I believe is a much bigger question.
He put the documents into his suit pockets to get them out of the archives. He took them to his office and used scissors to destroy three of the copies.
Berger also admitted to smuggling out handwritten notes from the archives. The notes have since been returned to the government.
He would not answer questions as to why he decided to destroy three of the documents
Noel Hillman, chief of the Public Integrity Section at the department of justice, noted that Berger had only taken copies of the documents and said the originals were always in the governments possession.
We have determined that no documents, no information was lost to the public or lost to the 9/11 Commission, Hillman said after the hearing.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050403/asp/foreign/story_4568189.asp
I want to know why Berger has or needs a current, active security clearance.
Thanks for the ping!
When I was in Naval Intel, I don't think the consequences of stealing/destroying Top Secret Codeword documents was this sort of a slap on the wrist. Of course, that was before the country began to lose it's mind and it's will to win.
Why isn't this an act of treason?
The powerliners website
http://www.powerlineblog.com/ indicates that the copies had handwritten notes by different Clinton staffers. The actual question is were these copies of the copies that were annotated, or were these the originals and only form of those notes that were so damning of the Clinton powers that were that 3 of 5 were shredded?
All is forgiven.
I'm not sure I follow your logic here. How can Sandy Burglar be "technically barred from revealing certain things that he knows as our former National Security Advisor...say, at a trial or to our intel agents" if he doesn't have clearance? People withOUT clearance are required to reveal information to people with clearance all the time. He can hardly claim that if he has the clearance, he'll remember things, but if he doesn't have the clearance, he won't be able to remember.
He was, in my opinion, a low-hanging fruit, and there is more to come, in the court of public opinion or in the court system, for his prior boss(es).
My brother pointed out that his clearance could be reinstated just in time for a Hillary Clinton presidency.
"Were I to engage in a little 'literary flair', I might say it seems Sandy walked out of the National Archives with some PDBs in his BVDs, and some classified docs in his socks."
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