Posted on 09/09/2005 6:57:41 AM PDT by Young Werther
Judge stiffens suggested penalty for Clinton's national security chief
WASHINGTON – Sandy Berger, President Clinton's national security adviser who was once entrusted with the nation's most sensitive secrets, was fined $50,000 Thursday for taking classified documents from the National Archives.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson handed down the punishment in federal court, stiffening the $10,000 fine recommended by government lawyers. Under the deal, Mr. Berger avoids prison time but must surrender access to classified government materials for three years
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The Ham Buglar should fry
Did the court say anything about Dr. Berger having to lose some weight as well? That would leave more room in his trousers for his next foray into the stacks at the archives.
Fined? The man should be in jail!
This is disgusting. The political class protecting itself. Just think what the sentence would have been if you or I had done this....oh, do I smell political fish...
Boy, I bet that wrist will smart for ten or fifteen minutes.
So stealing classifed documents from the national archvies and destroying them is a $50k fine and 3yrs probation.
Meanwhile get caught growing a plant (marijuana) and you're sent to jail for years.
Priorities?
Why the F*** would he EVER be granted access to classified documents again?
Excuse me but this is grounds for permanently losing your security clearance.
What administration does he currently serve in anyway?
Who's paying his bill?
In April, he will be deducting that $50,000 on his income tax return as a "business expense". < /sarcasm>
The administration should be ashamed of itself for allowing its Justice Department to make this plea bargain. There is no justification for letting this criminal, this traitor, get off.
And once again I ask, how does he have a clearance at all when his last government service was over 5 years ago?
As the church lady would say... "how convenient".
Clinton's national security chief
And Docs-in-socks won't pay a dime of it. This will be covered by the Clintons/Dems.
More info that no matter who controls the levers of gov't unless the elites want to punish somebody, they are free to break the law as they see fit. Laws apply to only the peons.
Bergers crimes as determined by the Court are greater than those of Martha Stewart -- yet Berger serves no time, not even a anklet? This is injustice.
Condi - my thought exactly.
If Condi Rice has been hidden documents in her clothes, taken them home and shredded them, the NY Times would be having major conniptions.
There would be charts and graphs all over its pages, the Senate Democrats would be screaming, and Micheal Moore would be camped out her front door demanding a meeting.
Now its just "removing" documents in the front paragraph. You have to go deep into it to read that he took them home and shredded them. Handwritten notes. This is so blatent it infuriates me, and the MSM is a bunch of self serving, Democratic hack pigs for not covering it.
I kept wondering all this week what the hurricane coverage would have been like if Hillary had been president. Probably pictures of her biting her lip, feeling their pain, and mentions of her "heroic" visits to victims.
"Isn't that special?"
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