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CBS - Sandy Berger Quits Kerry Team (Sources say don't expect charges to be filed)
CBS News ^ | July 21, 2004

Posted on 07/20/2004 6:24:20 PM PDT by HAL9000

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1 posted on 07/20/2004 6:24:21 PM PDT by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000

Oopsie.


2 posted on 07/20/2004 6:27:36 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: HAL9000
Why is Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-MD attempting to cover this up?

Oh, nevermind. The thief's a Democrat.

Betcha' Babs didn't like Fawn Hall at all.

3 posted on 07/20/2004 6:29:08 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: HAL9000
If President Bush wants to be taken seriously,
Burglar should be arrested tomorrow.

Otherwise, Whitey Bulger, stolen FBI files, FBI conspiracies to murder <----- all ignored by President Bush, yet again.

4 posted on 07/20/2004 6:30:49 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Then I say unto you, send men to summon ... worms. And let us go to Fallujah to collect heads.")
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To: HAL9000
Berger served as national security adviser for all of Clinton's second term. "I know him. He's a good man. He worked his heart out for this country," Clinton said.

Clinton as a character witness somehow just doesn't work for me.

"Mr. Berger does not want any issue surrounding the 9/11 commission to be used for partisan purposes."

I think he's being sloppy again, he meant to say Republican partisan purposes. Too bad he wasn't worrying about the integrity of the process when he was stealing classified documents.

5 posted on 07/20/2004 6:31:18 PM PDT by Dolphy
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To: HAL9000

Since the mainstream lefty press will do their best to quickly bury what emerges from Berger's pilfering episodes, I'm going to entertain myself by setting up a betting pool predicting how long it takes them to do so.


6 posted on 07/20/2004 6:32:47 PM PDT by antiprotester
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To: HAL9000
And late Tuesday, law enforcement sources say they don't expect charges to be filed.

If the GOP allows this matter to drop, I'm going to allow my volunteer work and financial support of the GOP "drop" as well. I'm TIRED OF THIS.

7 posted on 07/20/2004 6:33:09 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War (we use the ¡°ml maximize¡± command in Stata to obtain estimates of each aj , bj, and cm.)
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To: Diogenesis

#4..For less than this, Chuck Colson, & others in the Nixon administration, went to prison.


8 posted on 07/20/2004 6:34:42 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: HAL9000
I am so sick and tired of people purposely doing things and then calling their actions "mistakes." It isn't a mistake when you deliberately take classified documents on separate occasions. From what I understand, after his first visit to the Archives, documents were found to be missing. Lindsey was contacted and in turn, he contacted Berger and got the documents back. The problem is that on subsequent visits, Berger again removed documents from the Archives. After the first incident, the people at the Archives had numbered the documents and once again, they discovered items missing after Berger had left the building.

As far as the leak, I just read on Drudge that Bill Clinton is claiming to have known about this investigation for months. And the Kerry Campaign is saying they didn't know anything about this???? Something's definitely rotten here.

9 posted on 07/20/2004 6:35:17 PM PDT by mass55th (We are The Knights Who Say "Ni!" No! Not The Knights Who Say "Ni!" The same!)
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To: HAL9000
Berger served as national security adviser for all of Clinton's second term. "I know him. He's a good man. He worked his heart out for this country," Clinton said.

Typical Democrat/Clinton sleight of hand. Nobody has charged that Berger "did not work his heart out for this country".

It is the same style of misdirection that Kerry and Cleland and Daschle and others use when they protest that Republicans have questioned their patriotism (when, instead, Republicans have questioned votes, policies, and statements that they have made).

10 posted on 07/20/2004 6:38:21 PM PDT by Zeppo
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To: HAL9000
Former President Clinton also weighed in, telling reporters at a Denver autograph session for his book "My Life" that "it's interesting timing."

Leave it to the Rats to spin this as a matter of "timing," and leave it to the Republicans to sit there with their thumbs in their ears, hoping not to get anyone mad at them.

I am so sick of this "New Tone" garbage I could scream. If this doesn't get them to take off the white gloves, nothing, absolutely nothing will.

11 posted on 07/20/2004 6:38:22 PM PDT by truthkeeper (Will the last American leaving Southern California please take the flag?)
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To: mass55th
I don't care whether this is a "mistake" or intentional. It should still be prosecuted. Why should someone get off just because they were high ranking. If some second Lt. did the same thing he would be spending some time in the stockcade.

Now, we all know this was done for a reason, but why. I think he pilfered the drafts of these memos. I wonder if there are copies of these, or only of the final product. The final report that the dims said is all over town, has been sanitized, the draft might show what really happened.
12 posted on 07/20/2004 6:40:31 PM PDT by sharkhawk (I want to go to St. Somewhere)
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To: Guenevere
True, but laws mattered then. They do not matter now.

These people STILL control the IRS, and worse.

How many FBI files can they steal for it to be A-OK forever under the Bush Administration?

13 posted on 07/20/2004 6:42:50 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Then I say unto you, send men to summon ... worms. And let us go to Fallujah to collect heads.")
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Prosecutors: No Dice on Berger Deal

Justice Department prosecutors have reportedly rejected several offers from former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger's lawyer to resolve the department's eight-month long investigation into his illegal removal of top secret documents from the 9/11 Commission's reading room.

Two sources associated with the investigation told CNN that lawyer Lanny Breuer made a detailed statement of Berger's view of the facts at issue several months ago. According to the unnamed sources, Berger has offered to talk to the Justice Department about a resolution to the probe.

In the intervening months, Breuer has renewed Berger's offer to come clean several times.

But in a bad omen for the former top Clinton national security official, the Justice Department has repeatedly rebuffed the offer and refused to enter into any discussions.

Instead, Deputy Attorney General James Comey warned Tuesday that Berger - who resigned hours ago as a top campaign advisor to presidential candidate John Kerry - could face jail time.

"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 in Washington.


Instead, Deputy Attorney General James Comey warned Tuesday that Berger - who resigned hours ago as a top campaign advisor to presidential candidate John Kerry - could face jail time.

"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 in Washington.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1175232/posts

(don't believe CBS.)


14 posted on 07/20/2004 6:43:43 PM PDT by EllaMinnow (Re-elect Bush - because Kerry just doesn't have the time.)
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To: HAL9000

On Fox News earlier it was reported that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, referred to this as a "third rate burglary".


15 posted on 07/20/2004 6:43:45 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Dont Mention the War

I agree with you.


16 posted on 07/20/2004 6:44:30 PM PDT by Hildy ( If you don't stand up for what's RIGHT, you'll settle for what's LEFT.)
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To: HAL9000
I believe it was an honest mistake; that is to say that Berger knew precisely what he was doing; and indeed, knew he was making a huge mistake in stuffing classified information into his pockets so as to better serve a political agenda.

It was also a great deal more than that. But seems that ' a mistake in judgment' is sufficient explanation for Berger to be treated a little differently under the law. Or perhaps it is just the luck of the Democrats in Washington.

While Demrats cry for Bush's impeachment; we will not pursue this matter of what at least is a deliberate and incredible breach of National Security. . .and we will listen to the Demrats remind us at every opportunity; as to how great a patriot Berger is; that he was only taking home 'memos' that everyone in town had access to.

We will listen to more and more of their lies; and take their hate and blame for this as well that it was a Republican plot to smear Clinton and/or Kerry.

By November 4th; the Repubs will have attempted to overthrow the democratic process by this maneuver.

I am so furious, I feel like I may not even vote. But perhaps I am over-reacting. And the above judgment of not prosecuting may be just a rumor put out by the Lib/Left machine.

Right. . .

17 posted on 07/20/2004 6:46:47 PM PDT by cricket (The starting point for Liberals is the lie. . .)
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To: HAL9000

In the acts of smuggling classified material out of it's authorized place of "safe keeping", the "Turkey" committed criminal acts. He should be strung up immediately after a fair trial. Why the government doesn't act would also be criminal, if it comes to that.


18 posted on 07/20/2004 6:47:39 PM PDT by Joee
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To: HAL9000

CLINTON SAYS BERGER-DOCUMENTS FUROR IS JUST POLITICS: 'WE WERE ALL LAUGHING ABOUT IT'

Laughing, yea, what a jerk!!!!

I hope and pray that nothing less than charges and a full Senate investigation is called.

However, I won't hold my breath.


19 posted on 07/20/2004 6:49:16 PM PDT by parthian shot
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To: cricket

If you don't vote, then they have won.

That's how I look at it. I get frustrated too, but I want President Bush to win this election because he is the best man for the job, and because I want to spend the week after just taunting the liberals. :o)

Did you see another post above that totally contradicts what the first post said about them not pressing charges?


20 posted on 07/20/2004 6:49:53 PM PDT by MissyMa
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