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Sen. Clinton built life on faith BY JANE FULLERTON SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Posted on Sunday, August 8, 2004 As Hillary Rodham Clinton builds the public record she began as Arkansas’ first lady, continued as the nation’s first lady and is now expanding as New York’s junior senator, her views on religion remain central to her outlook on life and her position on issues. Although she doesn’t go out of her way to publicize her religious views, neither does she shy from discussing them. Indeed, those who know Sen. Clinton believe her Christian faith has been the motivation for many...

The Iraq War did not Force Gadaffi's HandThe Financial Times, March 9, 2004Martin S. Indyk, Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy Martin S. Indyk Embarrassed by the failure to find Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, President George W. Bush is trying to find another WMD-related justification for his pre-emptive war on Iraq. Bush administration spokesmen have been quick to portray Libya's December decision to abandon WMD programmes as the direct result of the US invasion of Iraq or, as Mr. Bush himself put it in his State of the Union address: "Nine months of intense negotiations succeeded with...

After three days worth of denials from his legal team, eyewitnesses to Sandy Berger's top secret document heist have confirmed that the former national security advisor did indeed stash national security secrets in his socks, as well as his pants pockets. "The stuffed socks and pockets is real," a senior law enforcement official told the New York Daily News. "The (theft) was reported by the guards." Guards at the National Archives told the FBI that Berger was observed stuffing his socks with handwritten notes about files he reviewed that were going to the Sept. 11 panel, the News said. Guards...

KERRY'S SUDDENLY DISAPPEARING WEB DOCUMENTS Various Kerry Spot readers are calling attention to the fact that the Kerry web site appears to have removed the press release that used to be here: http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0227a.html But can still be seen in the Google cache here, and has been posted on the FreeRepublic.com discussion board here: The date of the event is February 27, 2004. The event was a speech at UCLA about homeland security, mentioning port security and airline security. Now, Kerry wouldn't need any secret documents from March 2000 to make a speech saying port and airline security should be improved...

If Berger was stealing classified information from the National Archives, ostensibly to help his party, either Kerry's election bid or clinton's so-called 'legacy', how does this compare to Watergate? Watergate was a burglery of DNC offices looking for information to help Nixon purportedly. So how does this rank?

.The GapSandy Berger's pilfering of papers from the archive should be big trouble for the Democrats. Why is the press AWOL?by Hugh Hewitt07/22/2004 12:00:00 AMHERE ARE the two key sentence from yesterdays Washington Post: "[Sandy] Berger returned two of the after-action drafts within days, according to his attorneys. Other drafts of the after-action document, they said, were apparently discarded." As any lawyer who has ever argued over the contents of a brief knows, the stuff that gets left out can be the most telling material of all--indicative of prejudices and priorities, sensitivities and credibility. Berger's sticky fingers have left a...

I haven't watched CBS News in 15 years, but happened to catch a clip of Dan Rather's announcement of the Berger resignation, and was shocked at the undisguised partisanship of Mr. Rather. He stated that the Berger resignation was prompted by a "carefully orchestrated" set of manuevers, in effect blaming Republicans, while not even mentioning the fact that Mr. Berger was caught stealing documents from the National Archives. It's pathetic that CBS has been reduced to this low level. I can't find the transcript on the internet. Does anyone have it?

Joe Lockhart claims ex-aide didn't hide secret docs in his hose Former colleagues of Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger challenged allegations that the ex-aide stuffed classified documents in his socks to remove them from a secure reading room prior to his 9-11 Commission testimony. Federal officials have launched a criminal investigation into the former aide, who now advises Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, for pocketing highly classified terrorism documents. Though Fox News is reporting Berger and his lawyer said last night he knowingly removed handwritten notes by placing them in his jacket, pants and socks, CNN reports law-enforcement sources...

ROBERT REICH'S RHETORICAL RUBBISH News Analysis By David W. Virtue Bill Clinton's former Labor Secretary Robert Reich predicts there will be a religious war in America. Writing for the liberal magazine The American Prospect, former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich calls for a war against conservative (read Evangelical) religious believers. "The great conflict of the 21st century will not be between the West and terrorism. Terrorism is a tactic, not a belief," he writes. "The true battle will be between modern civilization and anti-modernists; between those who believe in the primacy of the individual and those who believe that...

CLINTON SAYS BERGER-DOCUMENTS FUROR IS JUST POLITICS: 'WE WERE ALL LAUGHING ABOUT IT' Tue Jul 20 2004 20:54:50 ET Former president Bill Clinton defends his embattled national security advisor as a man who "always got things right," even if his desk was a mess. "We were all laughing about it," Clinton said about the investigation into Sandy Berger for taking classified terrorism documents from the National Archives. "People who don't know him might find it hard to believe. But ... all of us who've been in his office have always found him buried beneath papers." MORE DRUDGE has learned: In...

Please post any and all references to the Breaking news about Sandy "Pantsload" Berger and his sloppy habit of stuffing documents in his pants, socks and elsewhere.. Just wondering how the spin will be on the ABCCBSNBC left wing lapdog bootlicking extremist media.. I'm gonna hold my nose and watch CBS for a few...

In any and ALL references to Sandy Berger we MUST rightfully link him to Kerry, NOT just Clinton!: "Sandy Berger, now a chief foreign policy adviser to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry..." www.bisnow.com/040708.cfm July 13, 2004 "[Kerry's] foreign-policy team, dominated by Sandy Berger..." www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5251332/site/newsweek June 28, 2004. "Sandy Berger, national security adviser to President Bill Clinton, who recently joined the [Kerry] campaign." www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/05/31/MNGK86UH4E1.DTL May 31, 2004. "Kerry foreign policy advisor Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger..." www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/clips/news_2004_0528.html May 28, 2004.

Terror-threat paper at center of criminal probe not shared with incoming Bush administration In testimony before the 9-11 Commission in April, Attorney General John Ashcroft pointed to a National Security Council document now at the center of the FBI's investigation of former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, urging the panel to ask why its warnings and "blueprint" to thwart al-Qaida's plans to target the U.S. were ignored by the Clinton administration and not shared with the incoming Bush security staff. Drafts of the sensitive NSC "Millennium After Action Review" on the Clinton administration's handling of al-Qaida terror threats during the...

Let's have some good liberal/democratic and conservative/republican answers. I guess I will have to compile 2 different lists.

My, my, how are the democrats going to spin this mess? This investigation has been ongoing for months, and yet Kerry kept Berger on his team. NOW Berger resigns, obviously under pressure. But Team Kerry was saying that there was absolutely no reason for Berger to quit or get fired right up until he resigned. Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., when asked whether Kerry should dump Berger, the former rival said, "That's up to John Kerry, but I'm sure he will stay on the team unless there's some charges that are proven that leads Senator Kerry to do otherwise." it's not...

Dear (Republican Red); I can understand your reaction. The Berger story was badly underplayed, but not out of any evil intent. The news broke very late last night, and editors rushed just a few paragraphs into the paper -- all they had at the time. I can assure you that we will be following this news much more fully in tomorrow's paper and thereafter. Thanks for writing, and for holding us to a high standard. Best, Bill Borders, senior editor, The New York Times.

Listen to Rush…(...explain just how serious the Sandy Berger document theft is) BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: President Clinton's national security advisor Sandy Burglar is the focus of a justice department investigation. Do you know this has been going on? This was first discovered last October, and the investigation has been going on. I mean, this thing, the pilferage (story) of these classified docs, happened last October and the investigation has been going on since the end of January. The 9/11 commission leaked this. This is a 9/11 commission leak, I think, and I'm wondering. The White House claims they didn't know...

Kerry campaign adviser Sandy Berger removed secret terrorism documents from a 9/11 Commission reading room on no fewer than five occasions, his lawyer Lanny Breuer admitted......

WHITEWASH-GATE N.Y. Times buries Berger story 'Paper of record' relegated big news to page 16 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: July 20, 2004 12:25 p.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The startling revelation that former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger is under criminal investigation for pocketing highly classified terrorism documents was buried on page A-16 in today's edition of the New York Times. While the story earned front-page coverage in USA Today, America's "paper of record" ran a wire story in a small box on the bottom of its last news page in the A section, one page before the editorials. SPONSORED LINKS The...

Sandy Berger continued to make numerous appearances on television on behalf of they Kerry campaign despite knowing of an ongoing criminal investigation related to his "mishandling" of classified documents drawn from the National Archives. You can read it just about everywhere else. Where TND gets involved is in tracking appearances on TND shows. Here is what our records reveal about Berger's appearance since joining the Kerry campaign in an official capacity as national security advisor: March 8, 2004 - MSNBC's Hardball March 19, 2004 - CNN"s Lou Dobbs Tonight April 2, 2004 - CNN's Late Edition (with Henry Kissinger and...