Posted on 04/10/2005 11:25:37 AM PDT by wagglebee
Congress is considering launching its own investigation into the theft of top secret terrorism documents by former Clinton national security advisor Sandy Berger, according to an influential House Republican.
"Several committees in Congress are interested in looking into the Berger issue," Peter King told WWRL Radio hosts Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter on Thursday.
The senior New York Republican declined to identify the specific committees, but said any probe would come before Berger was formally sentenced in July.
Questions continue to swirl about the five copies of a Millennium bomb plot after-action report stolen by Berger - focusing on why he cut three of those copies "into small pieces."
Berger defenders insist that documents he took contained no original notes in the margins.
"Those documents, emphatically, without doubt - I reviewed them myself - don't have notations on them," prosecutor Noel Hillman told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
But Hillman offered no explanation why Berger shredded three copies and not all five, returning the remaining two to the National Archives.
When news of Berger's theft broke last July, the Justice Department took a much tougher line - with Deputy Attorney General James Comey suggesting that it made no difference whether the documents Berger had stolen were originals.
"It is against the law for anyone to intentionally mishandle classified information, either by taking it to give to somebody else, or by mishandling in a way that is outside the regulations of government information," Comey told reporters at the time.
"All felonies in the federal system bring with them the promise of jail time," he added. Asked how Berger should be held accountable if the documents he destroyed contained any original material, Rep. King told Malzberg, "He should go to jail."
And I wonder about anything he might have put back....
Justice Department just may be an oxy-moron..
Sandy Burglar is getting away with slimy, stinkin,
socks. He will be around when Hillary runs...Do
you think he will head up the Watergate underground
to get Hillary some needed dirt on? ......Fill in
the name.... Pubs are going down the tubes unless they
show some spine in the Senate ..and dish Hillary when
she votes against qualified Judges...See Schumer today?
I swear..between the Senators here in California and
New York...the country is going to hell in a hand basket.
Jake
"Mr Delay, like every other of the rotten bastards who went to Washington to do Good -- has instead stayed there to do well!" ~ Brian Allen
It appears as if you want us to believe that you're an expert on "rotten bastards". Are you projecting? Are you a victim of misinformation? Or maybe you just lack discernment.
I can only help if it's a misinformation problem:
Rahm Emanuel Behind DeLay Hit April 8, 2005
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1380961/posts?page=52#52
Rush: Media Circles DeLay - The media's out for his scalp
Rush Limbaugh Radio Show ^ | 4-6-05 | Rush Limbaugh
Posted on 04/07/2005 11:53:53 AM EDT by Matchett-PI
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1379223/posts
LA Times: In Nevada, Reid Is the Name to Know
http://www.latimes.com/la-na-sonsday223jun23,1,1120739.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
LA Times - June 23, 2003 THE SENATORS' SONS: PART TWO
In Nevada, Reid Is the Name to Know
By Chuck Neubauer and Richard T. Cooper Times Staff Writers
Members of one lawmaker's family represent nearly every major industry in their home state. And their clients rely on his goodwill. [snip]
Rush: Media Ignores Rampant Harry Reid Corruption But Goes Nuts Over Martinez, DeLay
Rush Limbaugh Show ^ | 4-7-05 | Rush Limbaugh
Posted on 04/07/2005 11:42:50 PM EDT by Matchett-PI
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1379608/posts
DeLay's Backers Launch Offense
Washington Post ^ | April 10, 2005 | Mike Allen
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40496-2005Apr9.html
Posted on 04/09/2005 10:56:45 PM EDT by FairOpinion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1380684/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1380961/posts?page=54#54
""All felonies in the federal system bring with them the promise of jail time,"......
It all depends on the meaning of "promise".
"Congress May Launch Sandy Berger Probe"
I hope they aim it at the appropriate point of his anatomy, and provide sufficient follow-through to achieve a righteous objective.
And I wonder about anything he might have put back.....Forgeries come to mind.
The Clinton Legacy ---- the gift that keeps on giving.
At least say the "top secret" papers were library books so he at least be charged with something harsh.
I'm hoping that within ten or twenty years the Bent One will have a sexually transmitted disease named after him, that would be the "crowning achievement" to the Klintoon legacy.
Yes, the "Dream Team".
The WSJ's editorial defense of Berger for two days running was an absolute insult to the intelligence of anyone with basic logic skills. It takes absolutely incredible leaps of faith that one has to undertake to give ANY creditability to the investigation as reported. After reading the WSJ editorial comments on the second day, I felt embarrassed for whomever at the WSJ wrote it. The whole Berger story just demonstrates the contempt with which Washington and the MSM hold the rest of the country.
Heheh.....something to look forward to.
Agreed. Remember what branch of the government runs the JD. For reasons I cannot fathom, Bush has soft peddled any action on obvious law breaking by Bill, Hillary and their operatives.
I'm smacking myself upside my own head.
How could I forget that Congress will stand for nothing important???
Congressional Republicans must think we're a bunch of fools out here.
I finally found what I've been looking for the past few days.
At post #10 on the above thread of 30 Jul 04, I posted the following which I had taken from my critter's Chairmanship website (it has since been removed the Reform Committee website and, of course, Rep Tom Davis (R-VA) never held the hearings):
reform.house.gov
Government Reform
Contact: David Marin (202) 225-5074
Davis to Investigate Berger Allegations
Washington, Jul 21 -
House Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis (R-VA) announced today that the Committee intends to investigate allegations that former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, in preparation for 9-11 Commission hearings, took highly sensitive terrorism documents from a secure reading room at the National Archives.
The Government Reform Committee, which has jurisdiction over the National Archives, is the primary investigative committee in the House of Representatives.
“These allegations are deeply troubling, and it’s our constitutional responsibility to find out what happened and why,” Davis said. “It boggles the mind to imagine how a former national security advisor walked off with this kind of material in his pants, or wherever on his body he carried it. At best, we’re looking at tremendously irresponsible handling of highly classified information – some of which, I understand, has not yet been located.
“At worst, his actions suggest an intentional effort to keep critical information away from the Commission and the American public. We are now left wondering whether the Commission, set to release its report tomorrow, had access to all of the information it needed to fully do its job. The American people’s faith in our review of 9-11, in our war on terror, in our transparency, is literally at stake in this investigation. It is my hope that Mr. Berger cooperates fully with the Justice Department as its investigation proceeds. Meanwhile, as we continue to afford him the presumption of innocence he deserves, we will fulfill our duty to the American people to get to the bottom of this disturbing breach of trust and protocol.”
Carl Limbacher needs to give RINO Tom Davis a call.
I stand by what I wrote and will not follow your descent into the ad hominem.
Mr Delay will be hoist by his own petard.
I will not cheer his demise.
But we will both soon witness it.
[As you appear to have forgotten -- as has Mr Delay -- we Republicans are held to a way higher standard than are them dems]
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