Posted on 03/31/2005 4:30:05 PM PST by neverdem
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SANDY BERGER =
The CLINTONS' Communist China Washington, D.C. Lobbyist
The CLINTONS' NSA Advisor that helped them deny 3 Offers from the Sudan during the 1990's to give us OSAMA bin LADEN on a Silver Platter before this Terrorist Enemy could hit us hard on American Soil.
The CLINTONS' NSA Advisor that "Guarauntee'd" to the American People on NBC's 'Meet the Press' that the CLINTONS' allowing our Space Satellite launches in Communist China would "NEVER" result in the loss of our precious missile technology secrets to them, just before it did.
The Enemy is now Within...
and always has been.
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No kidding...if it was any average person on the street they'd be someones play thing in the shower room in the state pen...
Nothing to see here, move along now.
Not conspiratorial....aware.
Republicans cave again. What a bunch of wusses. They outta be ashamed of themselves.
I responded to your ping before reading the NY Times article above.
Whoo boy, they sure did heap as much praise on Berger as they could.
This story does have some information I had not heard, such as the removal of his security clearance for 3 years.
I also had heard in the Williams report that Berger will plead guilty to two counts, the Times appears to say he'll enter a plea on one count.
We shall see tomorrow who is more accurate. Williams said the court appearance is set for 1:30pm tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, March 31 - Samuel R. Berger, the former national security adviser to President Bill Clinton, has agreed to plead guilty to a criminal misdemeanor charge and give up his security clearance for three years after removing classified material from a government archive, the Justice Department and associates of Mr. Berger said today.
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Politics is a criminal brotherhood. They protect their own, irregardless of party labels. If you do not believe me, review the historical record of this nation's greatest show trial, otherwise known as the Clinton impeachment.
The NY Slimes has a more in depth look at this event.
"and he placed the document in his suit pocket, the associate said. A month later, during another session at the archive, he removed four more copies of other versions of the report, the associate said."
Notably the manner of secreting the "four more copies" is absent. Must be the pants/socks incidents.
Our Republican Leaders are the ones letting him off.
No jail time?
In comparing the versions of the report at his office later that day, he realized that several were essentially the same, and he cut three copies into small pieces with a scissors, the associate said.
A few comments are in order.
1) why not just sneak them back in and return them?
2) what with all the sensitive correspondence someone like Berger would handle on a daily basis, are we to believe that Sandy Berger doesn't have a personal-sized paper shredder at home? Of all people, Berger would know that cutting a document up with scissors is an invitation for a jigsaw puzzle champion to piece it back together. He knows it is not a viable means of disposing of a document. Hell, burning it would have been better. Why scissors?
3) if I had to guess, Berger was probably blackmailed into stealing the documents, the three "destroyed" copies probably are in Beijing or somewhere similar by now.
4) am I the only one to suspect that in return for this slap on the wrist, Berger had to cooperate more than just saying he did it and was sorry? If he was let off the hook this easy in return for nothing, the Justice Department is insane. I'm hoping beyond hope that Berger was flipped and had to rat out whoever put him up to this in the first place.
His pleading guilty shows this was NOT 'just a mistake' because he was 'tired'. You don't lose security clearance and pay a $100K fine if that's all it was.
Me TOO!!!
whoops...make that $10K. FNC just said it was $100K but the article says $10K. :o)
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