GOP Leaders Seek Probe of Berger Papers

Breitbart/AP ^ | 10/11/2006 | ERICA WERNER/ AP

[tobyhill]

A group of House Republicans called Wednesday for a congressional investigation into the improper handling of classified documents by President Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger. Berger admitted last year that he deliberately took classified documents out of the National Archives in 2003 and destroyed some of them at his office. He pleaded guilty in federal court to one charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material and was fined $50,000.

[50sDad]

Holy Freaking About Damn Time!

[maggief]

I question the timing of this. ;o)

[rhombus]

I question the timing. ;-)

[Ladysmith]

"Seek"?? Just do it! Geez louise!

[Darkwolf377]

The Republicans are at last discovering their Inner Adult.

[rhombus]

You beat me by a few seconds. :-)

[eyespysomething]

Oh sweet!!

[Lexington Green]

The truth about 9-11 died in Sandy Berger's pants.

He stole our history. Why isn't he in prison?

[linn37]

About damn time

[maggief]

LOL :)

[Diogenesis]

Secretary of Defense Cohen, Impeached Bill Clinton, Albright, and too-long-accepted CODE-level thief
and accepted-document-destroyer National Security Adviser Sandy Berger,
holding "court" in the Ronald Reagan Building on April 25, 1999.
The Impeached Bill Clinton: "We were all making comments
we shouldn't have about how the meeting was getting very boring.
So finally we decided we had to make like the monkey. Cohen
started this 'hear no evil,' and then I was next so I spoke no evil,
then Madeleine saw no evil, so Sandy Berger said, 'I'm evil.'"

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Berger, for Hillary Clinton, let bin Laden go
both from the Sudanese and when he was briefly vulnerable to missile attack.
[e.g. US News & World Report, Paul Bedard, 15 Mar 2003]

CODE-level thief and DOJ-accepted-document-destroyer Sandy Berger,
to please Hillary, personally allowed bin Laden and his top lieutenants to escape to Afghanistan.
NewsMax, "Aide: Clinton Unleashed bin Laden", Chuck Noe

Berger repeatedly rebuffed Sudanese offers to hand Osama bin Laden
to the United States in a deal brokered by a $900,000 contributor to Democrat campaigns.
Source 1 - National Review, "Clinton & Khobar", Rich Lowry


Source 2 - Washington Times, "Miniter Responds", Richard Miniter

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Berger was singled-out by UN Inspector Scott Ritter for the collapse of UN inspections efforts in Iraq].
"Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem - Once and for All" by Scott Ritter

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Berger admitted that the Clinton Administration failed to develop a war plan to fight al Qaeda
National Review, "Warning B.S.", Rich Lowry

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Berger was not qualified as NSA.
He was a millionaire lawyer and lobbyist with a career centered on expanding trade with China.
Tom Laughlin, http://www.billyjack.com/jung/08_politics/articles/990515_spy.html

Berger was the "go-to" man regarding China policy
when Communist Chinese money was being funneled into Democrat Party coffers
in exchange for policy concessions, strategic nuclear technology,
and all pending patent applications at the US Patent Office.
The Hill, "Fundraiser resurfaces from 1996", Sam Dealey

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Berger stonewalled the Energy Department about Chinese spying in Los Alamos for three years.

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Sandy Berger-Burglar was a key beneficiary of "Gorelick’s Wall"
TIME, "The Ubiquitous Mr. Fix-It", Adam Cohen

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John Kerry was a key beneficiary of Berger's Burglaries
Rescued: Data the Kerry/Edwards Campaign Tried to DELETE from its site! (grandpa dave found cache)

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Berger purloined all draft revisions of a key critique of the government's response
to the millennium terrorism threat, a document that detailed Administration knowledge
– and inaction – regarding al Qaeda presence in the U.S. in 1999
and 2000. Stolen were crucial notes in the margins of these drafts
which reveal the thinking and agendas of the
Clinton Administration relating to the mounting terrorist threat.
Washington Post, "Berger Quits as Advisor to Kerry", Susan Schmidt

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Berger was not qualified as NSA.
He was a millionaire lawyer and lobbyist with a career centered on expanding trade with China.
Tom Laughlin, http://www.billyjack.com/jung/08_politics/articles/990515_spy.html

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Former FBI Director Louis Freeh opined that
Burger “was a public-relations hack, interested in how something would play in the press” .
The New Yorker, per http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200311030753.asp

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Dick Morris noted Berger “seemed to work overtime
at opposing tough measures against terror”,
advising vetoes of legislation aimed at crippling Iranian terror funding
and working to block antiterror sanctions.
Wall Street Journal, "While Clinton Fiddled", Dick Morris, http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=95001824

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***** BUT TO BE FAIR, THE CLINTONOIDS WERE FOCUSING ON SOMETHING
THEY THOUGHT IMPORTANT:

"I was summoned to the office of National Security adviser Sandy Berger,
who chewed me out for not having a national security adviser (on the West Wing).
So I opened the next season with Anna Deavere Smith as the national security adviser" -
Aaron Sorkin

[SideoutFred]

About DAMN TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dirtboy]

This should have the Clintonistas shrieking like scalded skunks.

[tobyhill]

A lot more to come. The amateur Rats wanted to play the game so now the Republicans are saying it's go time.

[jveritas]

Excellent :)

[Mamzelle]

How many of us here on FR have had ourselves or family members go through an FBI or other guv security clearance?

What would have happened to any average Joe who did something a lot less serious than Berger did?

Of so many things the Bush admin has done to cross my eyes, not taking even a reasonably disciplinary stand against this thief--this spy has to really be up there...

Berger ought to be picking up trash along interstate 95 for years to come--and that's just getting started. He likes picking up paper? We should have shown him how. What fines? What jail time?

[litehaus]

Finally, Pubbies "praeparet bellum".....with 'credit' to appropiate folks...

[Toidylop]

"This should have the Clintonistas shrieking like scalded skunks."

It's NOT FAIR!!! :)

[100-Fold_Return]

holding breath.................

President Bush didn't pardon him after he finally took office, did he!??

[NewLand]

About time alert.

[savedbygrace]

Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil, and Have Room for More Classified Documents Right Here.

[milwguy]

Another shot from my local Congressman Sensenbrenner. I wish to heck he would run for Senate so we could have gotten either Kohl or Feingold out.

[johnny7]

Shays bringing up Chappaquiddick... and now this. When did the testosterone begin flowing again in the Republican party?

[NewLand]

Sandy Burglar "spy-wear"...

[Ladysmith]

Yeah, right around election time, as usual. /s

[ElPatriota]

He pleaded guilty in federal court to one charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material and was fined $50,000.

My question is why only until now?... or at least tried making some political points out of this?... Why is it, that you keep hearing of leaks here and there, but you see no action on them? Because no action is taking the message then is "It must not be important or truthful, since the Reps don't do anything about it."

Republicans should be more aggressive in giving it to the Rats the way they take it.

[tobyhill]

The Republican's are POed at the way the Foley BS was played by the MSM and Rats and they are going to get revenge.

[NewLand]

When did the testosterone begin flowing again in the Republican party?

When they read their own obituary in their local newspaper.

[sappy]

Paybacks are a B*tch, Dems.

[Warriormom]

It's amazing what the prospect of losing power will do!

[what's up]

If the Repubs play this right, they can drip drip drip this one and make it last right up to election day.

The Dems will have absolutely no defense for this one.

[The G Man]

[.cnI redruM]

YES!! They've finally freakin' had it with the Dems.

[Bob J]

A day late and a dollar short.

[kellynla]

I've always contended that as long as the Clintoons have that "J.Edgar Hoover" insurance policy(copies of F.B.I. files); they and their flunkies would never see the inside of a prison cell.

[maggief]

[dfwgator]

I'm just leery that yet again the GOP will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

[roaddog727]

About time.

He should permanently loose his security clearance (not a 3 year suspension) and NEVER again be allowed to work for the US government - as either a GS employee, political appointee or contractor.

[Jeff Chandler]

The Republican's are POed at the way the Foley BS was played by the MSM and Rats and they are going to get revenge.

That is no reason to enforce justice. Justice should have been enforced for justice's sake when the theft occured.

[tobyhill]

Never too late to dig up RAT skeletons! They play this game all the time and it's about time the Republicans fought fire with fire.

[kalee]

better late then never, I guess.

[Jeff Chandler]

If the Repubs play this right, they can drip drip drip this one and make it last right up to election day.

The DBM will never allow this story to see the light of day. Down the memory hole it goes.

[tobyhill]

Berger already pled guilty and since the RATs want to play "Bush should have got Bin Laden" then it's fair play to try to find out what Berger stole.

[backhoe]

FYI:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1175187/posts
Yes, Down My Pants. Oh, Like You Haven't? The Sordid Sandburglar Story
various FR links | 07-20-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

What about his beeber? I'd sure like to know about the Berger Beeber!

[cricket]

Saw Berger the other day; interviewed by John Gibson/FoxNews. . .thought I was watching 'Saturday Night Live' just by his being there. (And said as much in e-mail to Gibson. . .)

So it seems that 'check the pockets' Berger is OUT and about; and criticizing Bush's Korea policy while defending the indefenseable policies of Bill Clinton. . .

He has long deserved this investigation. . .too long, in fact. Guess our Repubs; when push comes to finding themselves at the bottom of the Capitol steps - just before Election - are now, ready to shove. . .

[beyond the sea]

GOP Leaders Seek Probe of Berger Papers ----

............ the basic delayed reaction, I guess.

[beyond the sea]

Why isn't he in prison?

He should have been asked that On FoxNews the other night when he was lying his ample ass off!

[Unicorn]

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