Sandy Berger to pay fine of 50K and 100 hours of community service. Lost in Katrina news.

CNN ^

[troop_defender]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger was sentenced Thursday to community service and probation and fined $50,000 for illegally removing highly classified documents from the National Archives and intentionally destroying some of them.

Berger must perform 100 hours of community service and pay the fine as well as $6,905 for the administrative costs of his two-year probation, a district court judge ruled.

"I deeply regret the actions that I took at the National Archives two years ago, and I accept the judgment of the court," Berger said outside the courthouse after his sentencing.

[troop_defender]

If I pirate a movie from Hollywood I am subject to a fine of $250K. How ever if a high ranking official steals secret documents 50K and 100 hours is the punishment. Where are our priorities?

TD

[NetValue]

Democrats do not get stiff fines or even jail time, Americans do.

[ChadGore]

Where is the "very special 48 hours" ? Where is "the must see 20/20" ?

[Beth528]

[JBCiejka]

They could not have looked too hard during the investigation, if it only cost them $6900. If that was for any type of lawyer fees, it probably was about 23 hours of work. Not even a whole day.

[Enterprise]

100 Hours? Send him to N'Awlins and put his sorry ass to work.

[operation clinton cleanup]

He should at least pay for the costs of the investigation.... which I'm pretty sure exceed $50k.

[roaddog727]

This dud needs to permanently lose his Security Clearance.
NOT, just a 3 year suspension.

Had I done this, I would have spent my remaining life on this planet confined in the Disciplinary Barracks at Ft. Leavenworth, making little ones out of big ones.

Appalling. Simply appalling.

[troop_defender]

Sad but true. The Hollywood crowd will pass the hat and pay pants Burgers fine for him. And who knows what they will have him due for his 100 hours of community service.

[operation clinton cleanup]

or explain why he stole the documents in the first place.

[NickatNite2003]

He should be spending the next 20 *YEARS* in
Leavenworth..
if it weren't for the corruption of our judicial
system by the ACLU & the Dims.

[Dante3]

Disgusting how Sandy Berger got special treatment. The powerful protecting the powerful.

[NutCrackerBoy]

Why the light sentence, CNN? I want to know. It's not like you don't always find SOME way to "speculate"; e.g. "Sources say ..."

[ChadGore]

I agree the deal is far to lenient.

He took Able Danger docs and is free man today . . . and will get his clearance back again ?

Him and leaky leahy need to have their clearance pulled. FOR GOOD

[EagleUSA]

...or explain why he stole the documents in the first place.
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I think we know WHY he took them. The tragic part is the political class is protecting itself here...all of Washington is complicit in the entire scenario around ABLE DANGER and what was known and what never was done.

MASSIVE cover up, IMHO.

[Boundless]

> This dud needs to permanently lose his Security Clearance.

He has, as long as we never have another Democrat POTUS.
And keeping Dems out of the White House is frankly more
important than sending Sandy to Leavenworth.

However, I'd like to think that in exchange for this mild
wrist slap, the Bergler quietly gave up some information
to the prosecutors on waht, why, who, how, etc.
Unfortunately, I have little confidence this happened.

[operation clinton cleanup]

I can only hope that he spilled the beans on his motives to get leniency, but I'm not holding my breath.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Wonder what he's hiding in those cheeks ?

[mom-7]

I want to know why his sorry --- is not in jail.