Posted on 04/01/2005 1:24:22 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 04/01/2005 2:36:26 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
True, that's why the msm loves them and hates capitalists.
Agree... the Democrats would have congressional hearings to emphasize the political aspects of Berger getting off so easy. As in who made the decision (sold out) and what was the quid pro quo.
By the way,,, someone needs to tell the President that the Democrats and especially Sandy Berger and his bosses are laughing at him... No wonder the approval rating are going down...
Sandy must have an "arraingement" whereby he will serve exactly 0 time. Otherwise, why admit anything?
Perhaps Time can name him their Man of the Year for his honesty in admitting he's a liar and a thief.
Nobel Sleaze Prize!
Oh the New York Times!
This should read "THE national security adviser" ala Condi Rice from 00 to 04.
You stuffed them down your freaking pants you crook! I am sick of government officials covering up for each other! I mean Republicans covering up for Dems to protect the reputation of the government.
The fact that this happened during the 9-11 hearings and the papers were related to 9-11 makes this a far greater crime.
Lets face it, both sides of our government are crooked bastards.
Not a single person in the X42 administration has a shred of honor or integrity.
Perhaps Vince Foster did, but then we'll never know.
Mr Berger will,no doubt,be named National Security Chief
in the third President Schlickfrau Administration.
Officials have said the five versions were largely similar, but contained slight variations as the after-action report moved around different agencies of the executive branch."Slight variations". Like handwritten notes? Underlining? Initials? Those may be "slight" variations, but they are NOT insignificant.
Yeah. Like I'd believe that without checking, on April First . . .
He had to know for decades just what the Clinton's were all about.
But, to extend this a bit more, from The Week Before Pearl Harbor by A. A. Hoehling (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, NY, 1963), in the Epilogue is to be found on Page 200:
“ ... That panic gripped the second deck of the Navy Department immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor is beyond reasonable dispute. One officer, then in intelligence, now in a high post in the Navy, told this writer that he went to his office safe one morning to find that a number of ‘magic’ dispatches were mysteriously missing. He never retrieved them.
ONI, in fact, had done such a thorough housecleaning of its top-secret and secret as well as not-so-secret files, that, according to another officer on duty at the time, not even a departmental organization chart of November and December, 1941, could ever be found. ...”
Or, on Page 204:
“ ... There are a few specialists, circa 1941, who insist that their memories as well must bear the ‘secret’ tag. A leading cryptanalyst, in retirement, hinting at a kind of passive brain-washing, with his pension as a lever, maintains he has been ordered not to discuss those long-ago codes and ciphers. However, the National Security Council, which he indirectly accused, has denied not only the allegations but any interest in the World War II period. ...”
Also, perhaps of note in passing, within Hoehling’s text (released some 22 years after the attack) are interviews with several principals, e.g., Stark, Kimmel, Bicknell, McCollum, Rochefort, ..., etc. Further, other authors have pointed out that other "oddities" regarding Pearl Harbor documents ... and their convenient "walk about" over the years.
But, also note, for some this the Hoehling book might conveniently fall outside of their timeline of relevant Pearl Harbor related text. After all, the IJN pre-Pearl Harbor naval traffic (in of its variants, e.g., Naval Code D, five numeral, five-digit, ..., etc.) is not mentioned, while Safford is quoted using “Operations Code” at the top of Page 76.
Finally, understand that there are a myriad of Pearl Harbor related dcouments that are yet to be declassified and placed in the public domain, and there are those which have been tampered with, "mis-placed" and simply destroyed ... For example, SRH-051 (aka "The Briggs Interview" - which Prange and associates' At Dawn We Slept scholarhip "missed" - while available at the National Archives since 1979 - still has redacted portions, say, Page 2 "... At that time I had returned from a field and was assigned ****** as one ****** watch supervisors. (****** indicates censorship)
Harm our interests in any way they can.
Three unique versions of this memo, with all of the hand written notations, have been destroyed and can never be recovered.
And that's just what Sandy Berger copped to...
According to today's information, there are still missing drafts that he has not accounted for.
"Not a single person in the X42 administration has a shred of honor or integrity."
In all fairness, Socks was a pretty good first kitty.
:o)
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