Posted on 10/09/2005 11:40:21 AM PDT by beyond the sea
Ex-president Bill Clinton has dispatched convicted national security document thief Sandy Berger to rebut bombshell charges from former FBI Director Louis Freeh set to air on CBS's "60 Minutes" tonight.
The Washington Post reports that producers came under "strong pressure from former president Bill Clinton's advisers" to allow Berger to respond to Freeh's claim that Clinton shook down Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah for a contribution to his presidential library after promising to go soft on the Khobar Towers bombing probe.
In a statement to be read on-air after Freeh details his allegations, Berger claims he was at the meeting and then insists: "The president strongly raised the need for Saudi officials to cooperate with us on the investigation into the attack on Khobar Towers at the time when the FBI was attempting to gain access to the suspects. The president did not raise in any fashion the issue of his library."
In April, Berger pled guilty to stealing and destroying top secret national security documents from the National Archives while helping Mr. Clinton prepare for his testimony before the 9/11 Commission.
He also admitted that he lied last year when he first called the crime "an honest mistake."
He was sentenced on Sept. 8 to two years probation and fined $50,000.
Just two days later, however - Berger was in legal hot water again, after Virginia highway cops clocked him doing 88-miles-per-hour in a 55-mile zone.
He was charged with reckless driving: a Class 1 misdemeanor in Virginia that carries a penalty of up to 12 months in jail and a $2,500 fine.
Appearing in court this past Wednesday, Berger was warned by U.S. District Magistrate Deborah Robinson that his sentence in the theft case could also be expanded because he had violated the terms of his probation.
Perhaps realizing that Berger's checkered past impaired his credibility as a character witness for Mr. Clinton, Clinton spokesman Jay Carson told CBS that he has accounts from five other former officials who received briefings on the Clinton-Abdullah meeting and who back Mr. Clinton's denial.
I pray that after Sandy Berger gets done reading Bubba's response off a cocktail napkin, 60 minutes the balls to say "Great, thanks Sandy. Now is it true you stuffed classifed documents in your socks? Why?"
Berger will be digging through his drawers to find something.....and then move on to his socks!
How appropriate......... that a guy who couldn’t keep it in his pants uses another guy who was stuffing everything into his pants.
This is beyond belief...Burglar, Clinton's criminal stooge, who has as much credibility as the criminal Clinton himself, sent to rebuff ANYTHING about Clinton??? What a farse. That is like sending Hitlery to rebuff Marxism....LMFAO!!
These fools are so far over the top, it is becoming laughable, in spite of what they have done to this country.
ROFL
Imagine that the Clinton lap dog at it again...most dog owners could only wish for that kind of loyalty from their pets...
60 Minutes shills for dems -- they lack the integrity to do what you suggest.
Maybe 60 Minutes can get Monica to give Clinton a thumbs up on this too...
1. What person with half a brain would believe anything Berger said?
2. Is there anyone left who REALLY believes anything Slick Willie says?
3. Wouldn't you love to know what Willie has on Sandy that has made Sandy destroy his own reputation to protect him?
Remember Buddy?.......He died.
I expect 60 Minutes to spend the whole segment trying to trash Freeh. I hope to read about it here, because I'll never watch that garbage network until they get an NFL contract.
LOL....yeah....dispatch a thief and liar to counter Freeh....YEAH, that's the Clinton way. WHAT a joke.
CBS, (Comunists Bull Sh*t), forged documents pushers, will not ask or even mention anything about convicted pentagon archives document thief, Sandy Burger's, REALLY Burglar's, conviction, we can unfortunately rest assured on that, in way of Clintoon's defense!:-(
LOL. Very astute appraisal!
Didn't Burgler steal documents that could have proved or disproved some of these allegations? Lotsa kredibility here from the klinton kommie kommittee!
Frankjr, surely you are not holding your breath? Having said that, it would be nice to hear some MSM person to ask, "Why is it, all the people that say things about you are liars"? Why would they do that?, but, like you I won't hold my breath either.
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