Posted on 09/10/2006 11:54:36 AM PDT by khnyny
Lee Hamilton (co-chair) of the 911 Commission is on the Board of Directors of Sandy Berger's company - Stonebridge International. I saw another freeper post this and thought it warranted its own vanity thread.
Thank you.
Gorelick ( and the 9/11 Commission Report Dietrich L. Snell was a Senior Counsel & Team Leader ) were put in charge of disseminate what information got seen by the full Commission.
So the woman who created the Wall which blocked the flow of information, was again put in charge of blocking information to the Commission which was charged with finding out why information got blocked.
[So the woman who created the Wall which blocked the flow of information, was again put in charge of blocking information to the Commission which was charged with finding out why information got blocked.]
Thanks for the explanation. That one sentence seems to encapsulate and highlight the problems of the Clinton admin. and really the whole 911 Commission Report.
Explains why the commission tried so wanted to crucify the prez but couldn't find the evidence to support their desires. However, the commission REFUSED to condemn clintoon & his administration and even had the evidence to support the condemnation.
This was well put too, IMHO.
"When the director of the National Archives found out that Berger was being investigated by the FBI for stealing classified documents, the director's first call went to.... Bruce Lindsey.
That National Archives director was subsequently fired, but I suspect that before he left he likely destroyed the originals at Lindsey's request."
by Lancey Howard
Interesting thanks.
Great. All he needs to do now is hire Jamie Gorelick, Richard Ben-Veniste, and Richard Clarke. Then he would have a complete crew of lying incompetents.
Berger's Firm to Aid Oil Interests in Iraq
By Judy Sarasohn
Washington Post
Thursday, September 16, 2004; Page A29
Stonebridge International, the "global strategy firm" founded by Clinton administration national security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, has taken on an interesting client, Gulfsands Petroleum Ltd., a private Houston-based oil and gas company. Gulfsands, along with its larger partner Devon Energy Corp. of Oklahoma City, has oil and gas exploration and development interests in Syria. And now Gulfsands is looking to Iraq.
"Stonebridge is assisting Gulfsands in organizing meetings in Washington with administration officials to discuss the company's business interests in Iraq and U.S. policy toward Syria," Stonebridge Vice Chairman H.P. Goldfield said in an e-mail response to written questions. The lobby registration was filed with Congress by Goldfield and colleague Joy Drucker.
Goldfield, who served in senior jobs in the Reagan administration, said Gulfsands "is conducting business development activities in Iraq" but "is not pursuing any U.S. funded contracts in Iraq." Its discussions with the government of Iraq are confidential for now, Goldfield said. "Our proposed energy project will be privately funded and will have significant economic and environmental benefits to the people of Iraq.
The project would create thousands of jobs for Iraqi citizens and would introduce more environmentally beneficial technologies into Iraq's development of its oil and gas sector," Goldfield said. Berger is not involved with the work for Gulfsands, Goldfield said.
Whatever happened to the Able Danger thing?
EXCERPT Sticky-fingered Clinton aide Sandy Berger got off a lot easier than Martha Stewart — no jail time and no aggravating ankle bracelet — because he only lied to the press about purloining top-secret documents. "He may have lied to the press when he suggested he did it by mistake, but lying to the press isn't a federal crime. If he had lied to us, we would have prosecuted," said prosecutor Noel Hillman, who heads the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section.
Berger copped a misdemeanor plea and got off with a $10,000 fine after admitting he sneaked out of the National Archives five top-secret memos hidden in his clothes, ostensibly to review them in his office. He also admitted using a scissors to cut three of them into little pieces to destroy them — his excuse appears to be that he was afraid of getting caught if he tried to sneak them back into the National Archives. "It's reasonable to conclude that disposal was a better alternative than sneaking them back," Hillman said as he provided new details on questions still swirling around Berger's deal.
He said the originals had been scanned into an Archives' computer and Berger only got copies printed from it. Asked if he's sure Berger didn't take originals, too, he said there's no evidence of that.
Meanwhile, the probe seems to have shifted to whether Clinton appointees at the Archives tried to cover for Berger. Archives chief John Carlin, a Clinton appointee, was bounced soon after the incident.
It's a violation of law to take classified documents, so Archives staffers should have called the FBI when they saw Berger do it — instead, they called Clinton's Mr. Fix-it, lawyer Bruce Lindsey.
The memos were multiple drafts on the millennium terror plot that concluded the Clinton administration escaped a terror attack by sheer luck and identified "glaring weaknesses" in Clinton-era security. Berger was at the Archives to vet documents for the 9/11 commission. Some early drafts of the still-classified memo are said to be much more scathing in rapping Team Clinton than the final version.
SOURCE http://www.nypost.com/commentary/23114.htm
Thanks for that great find.
[Whatever happened to the Able Danger thing?]
That's a great question - I'm not sure. Perhaps other posters are more informed and can let us know.
Stonebridge International — Sandy Berger’s tax-funded company. Any new research on that?
Syria connection.
Gulfsands, along with its larger partner Devon Energy Corp. of Oklahoma City, has oil and gas exploration and development interests in Syria.
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