DOCUMENTS SHOW BERGER NIXED ATTACKS ON BIN LADEN

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[zook]

flasher on

"On December 4, 1999, the National Security Council?s counterterrorism coordinator, Richard Clarke, sent Mr. Berger a memo suggesting a strike in the last week of 1999 against Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. Reports the commission: ?In the margin next to Clarke?s suggestion to attack Al Qaeda facilities in the week before January 1, 2000, Berger wrote, "no." ?

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Ouch.

[EggsAckley]

Updates, please? Thanks!

[elfman2]

Wonder if the documents smalled like feet…

[johniegrad]

Are these the pilfered documents?

[Peach]

Ping aling

[cripplecreek]

But...but....but....look at the timing.

[Uncle Miltie]

ZZZZZZZZZZZIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG!

WHAP!

BAM!

OUCH!

That's gonna leave a mark....

[zook]

Nothing but a headline yet.

[Freemeorkillme]

Good question. Does the Drudge comment reflect the totality of the documents stolen of detail in just one stolen doc.

[B Knotts]

I guess now we know what Rush was hinting at yesterday.

[dead]

But...but....but....look at the timing.

Abu Ghraib. Abu Ghraib. Enron. Abu Ghraib. Abu Ghraib. Halliburton. Abu Ghraib.

[ConservativeDude]

so thats why the clinton "national security team" was laughing....

i guess berger won't be running for governor of wherever the hell he is from anytime soon....

[Freemeorkillme]

of=or

[zook]

Look here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1177139/posts

[Diogenesis]

He did it for Hillary.

[GRANGER]

Not a part of the 9/11 report...if true, it means Berger sucessfully removed all copies from the Archive.

[COEXERJ145]

[StrictTime]

Call me cynical, but I smell something fishy around this story, and it's not feet (but it might be Old Crusty....).

[Chad Fairbanks]

Well, this is certainly an interesting development - certainly one I never saw coming. Nope. Never in a million years would I have guessed the document theft was for a reason such as this.

[The G Man]

Put some ice on that, Sandy.

[Slings and Arrows]

UPDATE: Full info.

Slow to load; their server must be pretty busy.

[epluribus_2]

If true, can I return my copy of the 9/11 comittee report?

[finnman69]

John Kerry and Terry McAuliffe must be getting furious at the Burglar story getting out of hand right before the convention......


...................and somewhere the Clintons are snickering

[zook]

Hey moderator, don't pull that other thread. It had some details!

[epluribus_2]

and the children...

[OXENinFLA]

I'm SURE this will be in the 2nd printing of the 9-11 report....................

[Unknown Freeper]

Hope the former security man has his own security. Arkancide can be painful.

[r9etb]

Not a part of the 9/11 report...if true, it means Berger sucessfully removed all copies from the Archive.

If true, it means that the conclusions of the 9/11 report are demonstrably untrustworthy. That would be a HUGE story.

[wrathof59]

This coincides with Al Hunt's column in the WSJ earlier in the week, which basically said catching bin Laden is no big deal, and if he's caught in October as an October surprise, the Democrats should down play it and American people should not make too much out of it.

It fits nicely into this, published on the same day or following day.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

You forgot the AWOL story.

[SittinYonder]

I guess all the things I've been saying about Berg-lar were harsh. If I'd nixed a strike on al-quaeda pre-9/11 I guess I'd be stealing the documents that prove it, too.

[BinaryBoy]

I guess Berger can honestly say the commission got all the documents they requested... because they can't request documents they aren't aware of.

[OXENinFLA]

Arkancide can be painful.

Sometimes even fatal.....

[Peach]

Absolutely. That pulled thread was a New York Sun article. This thread is just a Drudge siren. Please reinstate that other thread!

[The G Man]

Here's the link:

NY Sun

[Mike Bates]

[Chad Fairbanks]

Yuppers.

TheChadFairbanksStillKnownAsChadFairbanks

[The KG9 Kid]

Gee, I wonder what reasons Kerry's national security advisor Sandy Burglar had for 'inadvertantly' stuffing secret national archive documents in his socks and taking them offsite?

If he modified those documents to hide his rejection of capturing Osama bin Laden, he should be beaten with sticks on national TV.

[Uncle Miltie]

"In other words, according to the commission report, Mr. Berger was presented with plans to take action against the threat of Al Qaeda four separate times — Spring 1998, June 1999, December 1999, and August 2000. Each time, Mr. Berger was an obstacle to action. Had he been a little less reluctant to act, a little more open to taking pre-emptive action, maybe the 2,973 killed in the September 11, 2001, attacks would be alive today."

[The G Man]

Peach:

The NY Sun story is on Drudge, top right article. Same thing.

[Billthedrill]

< Gomer Pyle voice > Well, surpriiiiiise, surpriiiiise, surpriiiiiise... < /Gomer Pyle voice >

[Chad Fairbanks]

Ouch. I bet that leaves a (skid)mark in his Top Secret Document Transportation Undies...

[Bahbah]

LOL. (Being at work makes it more of a "snort, snort, snort.")

[Petronski]

Look at my beeber:

It is stuned.

[Republican Red]

As usual, Rush gave us the heads up yesterday

"All Your Dreams Will Come True"

[Peach]

Thanks. The article takes a while to load...

Some people are blaming the distraction called impeachment on the reason why Clinton didn't/couldn't get OBL. That is mentioned in the article.

[elfman2]

This is the kind of thing Democrats arrange to be reported on Friday.

[Steven W.]

Berger didn't nix plans - CLINTON DID

Let us not forget who was President during that time. If "no" was written on Berger's papers it was because Clinton told him "no"

[Ciexyz]

Dear God, please don't let the Demopuke liberal anti-war head-in-the-clouds unable-to-see-reality crowd get back in the White House. AMEN!