Posted on 01/13/2007 7:20:33 AM PST by kellynla
The more we learn about Sandy Berger's brilliant career as a document thief, the clearer it becomes that there is plenty we still don't know and may never learn. On Tuesday, the House Government Reform Committee released its report on Mr. Berger's pilfering of classified documents from the National Archives.
The committee's 60-page report makes it clear that Mr. Berger knew exactly what he was doing and knew that what he was doing was wrong. According to interviews with National Archives staff, Mr. Berger repeatedly arranged to be left alone with highly classified documents by feigning the need to make personal phone calls, and he used those moments alone with the files to stuff them in his pockets and briefcase.
One incident is particularly suggestive. By his fourth and final visit to review documents and prepare for testimony before the 9/11 Commission, the Archives staff had grown suspicious of how Mr. Berger was handling the documents, so they numbered each one he was given in pencil on the back of the document. When one of them--No. 217--was apparently removed from the files by Mr. Berger, the staff reprinted a copy and replaced it for his review. According to the report, Mr. Berger then proceeded to slip the second copy "under his portfolio also." In other words, he stole the same document twice.
This gives the lie to Mr. Berger's story that he was taking the documents for his own convenience, to assist with his preparation for testimony to the commission. If that were the whole story, one copy of document 217 would surely have been sufficient. That document was an email pertaining to a draft of the Millennium After-Action Report on the attempted bombing of Los Angeles International Airport. The episode suggests that Mr. Berger had some other motive
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It seems that he was taking a lot of risks to cover just the legacy. I wonder what his real motivation was?
Exactly why Berger plead guilty. Everyone, including his lawyers, knew he was as guilty as sin, and if the case was tried, all these facts would come out.
"The more we learn about Sandy Berger's brilliant career as a document thief, the clearer it becomes that there is plenty we still don't know and may never learn."
The one thing that we do know is that the elites, from either political party, take care of one another. It's not got a thing to do with pilfered FBI files, Alberto Gonzales simply was not interested in jailing a fellow member of the class lest a required favor from the other side down the road be held back in retribution.
Their rules for them and their rules for the rest of us. It's the way of the world.
"Someday, the full story of the Clinton criminality will be written."
I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.
Those copies of F.B.I. files will prevent "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" from ever being revealed.
But we MUST make sure that another Clinton NEVER darkens the doorway of the Oval Office again!
I volunteer to administer it, too.
From recent evidence, I would say the Donks don't have a corner on that inclination.
I can only pray that Gonzalez never reaches the Supreme Court. He is a wet noodle and incapable of effective leadership in his position. Did a Clinton appointee run this case through the system? I am sure he has a fair share of supporters still in place. The FBI raid on Weldons daughters home prior to the last election when Joe Sestak and Sandy Berger were working toward ousting him was suspect.
The fact that this slimey little "sloppy" creature in not behind bars says a lot about our government, and it is not good.
Berger is an old McGovern Dem. Having him as a National Security Advisor was a joke. He's a common thief, and Clinton's a common liar, so they go well together.
torture?
no need to "torture"
I have two words for you..."water boarding"
next case!
I don't know what gives with the Justice Department. Judging from results, it looks like getting along with your political adversaries is more important than enforcing the law.
By the evidence, it was obvious that the National Security Council Clintonistas were scared to death of Weldon. They did everything they could to defeat him. Curious that all these NSC hands would single out Weldon for defeat.
"There is a "Mary Marcarthy" democrat-mole in Justice."
Mary McCarthy is an outstanding example of someone who should be prosecuted by the Justice Department, and hasn't been.
The Burger antics have created lots of anger (all of it justified). Bill Bennett came up with a song contest to try and relieve some of that anger with humor and it is quite theraputic. The incomparable Mark Steyn weighed in with some particularly clever lyrics which are here if you feel like trying to at least get a couple of laughs out of this.
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/016477.php
And how long have we known?
Let's review. So far we have:
- Two Clinton lawyers appointed to the 9/11 Commission;
- Sandy Berger stealing documents from the 9/11 reading room, when he absolutely has to know he's in stark violation of the law;
- The Clinton National Security Council working all out to defeat Curt Weldon.
I wonder what the "Clinton legacy" is? If we allow this crap to continue, we'll never know the truth.
The real crime is/are performed by those that should prosecute these felony's..
Failure to do so encourages more of the same..
Who can take a paper
Stuff it in a shoe
Cover up the caper
With a perjury or two?
The Sandy Man . . .
The Sandy Man can . . .
The Sandy Man can
'Cause he takes it from the file
To make his boss look good.
Who can take a secret
Tape it to his thigh
Walk it out and sneak it
Like an undercover spy?
The Sandy Man . . .
The Sandy Man can . . .
The Sandy Man can
'Cause he takes it from the file
To make his boss look good.
The Sandy Man makes
Every move that takes
Classifying as suspicious
And the line of crap he dishes
You can even call fictitious.
Who can take a memo
Slip it up a sleeve
Hold it near his elbow
And say nothing when he leaves?
The Sandy Man . . .
The Sandy Man can . . .
The Sandy Man can
'Cause he takes it from the file
To make his boss look good.
The Sandy Man makes
Every move that takes
Classifying as suspicious
And the line of crap he dishes
You can even call fictitious.
Who can take a memo
Slip it up a sleeve
Hold it near his elbow
And say nothing when he leaves?
The Sandy Man . . .
The Sandy Man can . . .
The Sandy Man can
'Cause he takes it from the file
To make his boss look good. . . .
.
(SITTIN' WHERE) THE DOCUMENTS LAY
Tune: "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay"
Sittin' in an archive room
I see written who did what about whom
Watchin' for Clinton's role
Got to keep my boss's legacy whole
I'm sittin' where the documents lay
Watchin' the guard walk away
I'll just fit 'em in my socks so they'll stay
Placed inside
I'm liftin' just a portion
Just the ones that would give Clinton grief
If I do a few more contortions
It looks like some will even fit in my briefs
I'm sittin' where the documents lay
Watchin' the guard walk away
I'll just fit 'em in my socks so they'll stay
Placed inside
Looks like nothing seems too strange
Everything still appears the same
But I still got these ten papers here left to do
So I hope my suit stands the strain
Sittin' here looking around
And these documents must weigh fifty pounds
These two thousand files I found
Tend to make my socks fall down
I'm sittin' where the documents lay
Watchin' the guard walk away
I'll just fit 'em in my socks so they'll stay
Placed inside
"IN THE ARCHIVES" (Sandy works for me)
Tune: "In the Garden" (And he walks with me)
As sung by Bill Clinton
He comes to the Archives alone
Pulls a heist right under their noses
'Cause the stuff they have
Would make me look bad
The things that it discloses
Sandy works for me
He does dirt for me
And he knows what files need to go
And the stuff he takes
Showing my mistakes
None other will ever know
He speaks and the sound of his voice
Is so sweet the guards stop their guarding
And the documents
In his socks and pants
He'll soon be out discarding
Sandy works for me
He does dirt for me
And he knows what files need to go
And the stuff he takes
Showing my mistakes
None other will ever know
I'd go to the Archives with him
But that might cause people to murmur
That's the reason why
I can now deny
I ever knew this Berger
Sandy works for me
He does dirt for me
And he knows what files need to go
And the stuff he takes
Showing my mistakes
None other will ever know
My three entries to the song contest are in post 25 of this thread.
If Gonzalez had a set, he would have been out front combating ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION and enforcing the immigration laws.
As it is, he has done very little...
Gonzalez is just the token administration brown face.
Nothing more...
BUMP!
Given the national security, historical and political (again, national security) implications of this case, I believe that the use of torture to obtain the truth is fully justified.
BUMP!
And don't forget-----
- Lee Hamilton, co-chair of the 911 Commission is on the Board of Directors of Sandy Berger's company - Stonebridge International (Stonebridge International Web Site September 10, 2006)
You have hit on the big question, what the hell is really going on here.
Not "too surprisingly" the msm/dbm seems to have miraculously given GW a pass on not investigating the fat burglar.
Hilarious. Our own Mark Steyn. Very, very clever.
Can you imagine the uproar if any Republican had done the same as Berger ?
Mark Steyn -- Genius
It's chilling for patriots to read that Berger was a "workaholic" as Clinton's National Security Adviser----Berger was always seen surrounded with top-secret documents---and he often worked late, when no one was around to see what he was doing. A study of his Clinton-era phone records and computer emails to see who Berger was talking to should prove interesting. God knows how much info Berger stole then, where he hid it, and where it ended up.
kellynla wrote - "Gonzalez is just the token administration brown face."
In my post I was not talking about illegal immigration but the Berger crime, which this thread is about and I was not addressing my comments to you, so buzz off with your racist comments of "brown face".
Any way you cut it the burglar fiasco is just another in along line of events that do not add up.
His explanation, that he wanted to read the document twice, was accepted without comment.
(1) Berger was on-duty when top-secret US technology was sold to China.
(2) Berger was on-duty when the US bombed the aspirin factory; lamebrain Berger advised Clinton it was manufacturing deadly chemicals.
(3) Berger was on-duty during Somolia, and Kosovo, and Hatti, and all the other wonderful military success stories of the Clinton administration.
(4) And then there's the infamous Clinton pardons Berger aided and abetted, and did nothing to stop. Mark Rich was and is the biggest tax cheat in US history, who absconded, then renounced his US citizenship to evade prosecution.
(5) Clinton also pardoned 16 terrorists---members of the FALN---- so Hillary could get Latino votes for her Senate run in NY's large Puerto Rican population. The Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN) was involved in more than 100 bombings in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s." Berger did nothing to stop it.
(6) And let's not forget the bombing of the Chinese embassy.
(7) Remember when then-Pres Clinton went to Norfolk making a "solemn promise" to the families, friends and shipmates of the USS Cole to avenge their deaths. But when the opportunity presented itself, he squandered it. Clinton flunky, Berger, conveniently blamed the misstep on the Pentagon.
As if anyone in the Pentagon would pass up the chance to avenge the sailors of the USS Cole.
It is too bad. Justice would be served if these people were to be behind bars.
Excellent post! Thank you for the rundown.
The new congress would still be investigating.
When the Libby case is settled in court and Fitzgerald's laughable evidence is shredded and his knowledge of the true leaker of Armitage is exposed, he should be tried on ethics violations, disbarred, sued by Libby and any potential criminal charges brought against him. Fitzgerald, NiFong and Ronny Earle are all from the same mold.
Isn't it amazing... The Dems can come up with all sorts of lies about President Bush, and threaten impeachment, but Sandy Berger can actually committ a federal offense, and he continues to walk around without any hint of jail time.
Is it possible to file new charges against Berger for stealing documents other than the ones defined in the original case? I'm sure there are doocuments he took that weren't discovered until later.
"There is no evidence" is a well-worn clintonoid phrase. The reason there is no evidence, of course, is that clinton ordered the documents to be shredded. Or he ordered the hard drive to be destroyed. Or he ordered the safe to be opened and the x-rays to disappear. Or he ordered all the negatives to be exposed while being developed.
So, it's perfectly true. There's no evidence. It was destroyed. In this case, it was destroyed by Sandy Berger, with the complicity of people in the National Archives who watched him steal numerous documents before taking any action, and when they finally did take action . . . they called Clinton's lawyer!
It was also destroyed with the complicity of Gonzalez and the Department of Justice, who helped cover up after the fact. Without their active help, and the help of the clintonoids on the 9/11 Commission, it would have been a lot more difficult to say, "There is no evidence."
"Thanks to Justice's and the Archives' leniency, or laxity, or both, Mr. Berger's plea deal expires in 2008--just in time, perhaps, for the next Clinton Administration"
this is what the Dept of Justice has acquiesced to: a plea of "please don't throw me in that briar patch."
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