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Prosecutors: No Dice on Berger Deal
News Max ^ | 7-20-04

Posted on 07/20/2004 6:35:36 PM PDT by hope

Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Tuesday, July 20, 2004 9:23 p.m. EDT

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.

"We take issues of classified information very, very seriously," he added.

"It's our lifeblood to keep secrets. All felonies in the federal system bring with them the promise of jail time," Comey stressed, adding cryptically, "That's all I can say about that."

As U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District, Comey oversaw the indictment of Martha Stewart for lying to federal investigators. Stewart was sentenced to five months in jail last week.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crime; doj; government; oopsifilledmypants; sandyberger; sloppy; trousergate
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To: hope

On CNN Berger is being quoted saying that his behavior "violates policy but is not against the law."


201 posted on 07/21/2004 1:00:27 AM PDT by Graymatter (Kerry medical records are none of our business---and his veep pick is, who???)
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To: tobyhill
OTOH, I can see bill and hillary sending a radioactive Trojan Horse Sandy Berger to cozy up to Kerry, knowing they could make this theft public before November 2. Whether Kerry knew anything about the stolen documents or not would be immaterial, once the clinton machine got cranked up and ready to steamroll.
202 posted on 07/21/2004 1:07:47 AM PDT by GretchenM (A country is a terrible thing to waste. Vote Republican.)
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To: Graymatter
So if I go to this archive and stuff some documents down my pants, I won't get into any trouble. And if I "inadvertantly" destroy some documents, I won't get into trouble either.

My biggest problem is explaining that putting them in my pants was "inadvertant". The synonym for inadvertant is "accident".

The American people aren't that stupid though Hillary says we are. And Bubba...Well he thinks his impeachment was a badge of honor. So laugh on, Bubba because your legacy is Monica.

203 posted on 07/21/2004 3:22:09 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: GretchenM

I just read on the Fox ticker that 4 documents related to Clinton and 6 related to Bush. My belief is this was to cover Clinton's lack of action and trying to hide Bush's proactive approach. Advantaging Kerry! Why else would an adviser work for no money, unless under the table, stuff in pants, take and destroy classified documents? Kerry stated he never saw classified documents but how would he know what was classified or not, unless he knew they were classified? It's referred to as a double negative, one "can't know" unless they knew. If Kerry was to say,"I don't know if I received classified info from Berger or not" then that is challenging the info, while not accepting or denying the info status, but he didn't say that.
There is one other possibility that Berger is a double agent for Clinton hoping Kerry loses and getting Hillary on the ticket in 08. The way this was done, I wouldn't know how that would work?


204 posted on 07/21/2004 6:51:53 AM PDT by tobyhill (The war on terrorism is not for the weak)
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To: ridesthemiles
Probably in the same place as the Rose Law Firm papers????

We never found out how the 800 or so FBI files got into the White House. I wonder if Sandy... Naw. Couldn't be. I must be getting overly suspicious. - Tom

205 posted on 07/21/2004 6:57:11 AM PDT by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse the Bushies with the dumb republicans. - Capt. Tom)
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To: rintense

Sandy is going to write a "review" of the upcoming book from Martha Stewart--- GOING TO JAIL WITH STYLE.


206 posted on 07/21/2004 7:07:40 AM PDT by pointsal
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To: rintense

Sandy is going to write a "review" of the upcoming book from Martha Stewart--- GOING TO JAIL WITH STYLE.


207 posted on 07/21/2004 7:10:46 AM PDT by pointsal
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To: GretchenM

Kerry DOES care, though, to fool
voters into buying that Bush has
done a poor job on Nat'l Security,
and HE can fix what's wrong. He
gave a speech & issued a policy
paper all about it, w/ lots of
detail on Homeland Security. Of
which one of Burglar's missing
documents largely consists.


208 posted on 07/21/2004 7:23:26 AM PDT by txrangerette
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To: GretchenM
"I perceive him as someone who doesn't care about America's security or defense."

If you look at his voting records, you would see he cares - just not the way that would protect the United States and keep us ready.

209 posted on 07/21/2004 11:41:12 AM PDT by malia (HRC "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.")
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To: malia
Speaking of Monsieur Kerry's voting record, if I were a dem (thank the good Lord I'm not!), I would connect the dots between Kerry missing 80 percent of the Senate's votes,
and his current preoccupation with taking time off to vacation while he's running for the most important job in the world as far as power and "the need to know," and it would scare the stuffin' out of me.

IOW, Kerry as president (God forbid!) would be on vacation 80 percent of the time. And in my opinion, he'd do a treacherously poor job the other 20 percent.

Remember Waco -- under a dem president.

210 posted on 07/21/2004 11:49:22 AM PDT by GretchenM (A country is a terrible thing to waste. Vote Republican.)
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To: GretchenM

Thanks. An excellent addition - Saul got second and third chances, byt managed to be both weak and stubborn - a bad combination. FReegards


211 posted on 07/21/2004 6:33:51 PM PDT by 185JHP ( "Ich kann nicht anders." d,v,c)
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To: knarf

You are right, usaually after Rush goes off on Friday..

This isn't goin away fast but the spin machine is out in force.


212 posted on 07/21/2004 7:47:46 PM PDT by The Mayor (By one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.)
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