Posted on 12/02/2015 6:51:53 AM PST by TroutStalker
Former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, who served under President Bill Clinton, has died at the age of 70.
"V sad start to day; just learned Sandy Berger passed away during the night," Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, tweeted Wednesday morning. "Good man & friend who served nation well as bill clinton's NSA."
Antony Blinken, the current deputy secretary of state and a Berger acolyte, tweeted, "Mourn the passing of Sandy Berger --- father, husband, mentor, friend, leader and great patriot. RIP SRB."
Berger, a longtime lawyer who founded Stonebridge International, a Washington-based advisory group, after leaving government, had just been awarded World Food Program USA's inaugural Global Humanitarian Award on Tuesday.
“We are honoring one of America’s most devoted and influential humanitarian champions,†Rick Leach, the group's president and CEO, said in a statement. “On behalf of WFP USA, Sandy has been our principal voice in advocating that the U.S. and the world respond effectively to the greatest humanitarian challenge of our generation.â€
Berger served as Clinton's top foreign policy adviser during the 1992 campaign before serving as deputy national security adviser and eventually national security adviser shortly after Clinton began his second term, in March 1997.
As the president's chief foreign policy aide, Berger oversaw the Clinton administration's push to expand free trade in Africa and Asia, as well as its response to the al Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa, the NATO-led bombing of Kosovo, and the efforts to forge a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. 20151201_mitch_mcconnell_2_GTY_1160.jpg
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Following his time in the Clinton administration, Berger remained an active player in Washington's foreign-policy debates, informally advising Democratic politicians, including Hillary Clinton, and publishing articles about various international issues. As secretary of state, Clinton consulted Berger on topics from how to handle Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to how to "gain leverage over the Pakistanis" and persuade them to go after al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, her emails show.
In an op-ed for POLITICO Magazine in August, Berger warned Congress against rejecting President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, writing that doing so would allow "Iran to move further toward a nuclear weapon, presenting the United States and Israel with terrible choices."
Berger's legacy was marred, however, when he pleaded guilty in 2005 to removing highly classified documents from the National Archives in Washington the previous year. The inspector general of the National Archives said that a staff member had witnessed the former NSA adviser wrapping the classified documents around his socks and under his pants.
He was fined $50,000, sentenced to two years' probation and stripped of his security clearance for three years. Following a Justice Department investigation and subsequent congressional hearings, Berger voluntarily gave up his license to practice law in 2007.
"While I derived great satisfaction from years of practicing law, I have not done so for 15 years and do not envision returning to the profession," Berger said, according to a contemporaneous Associated Press report, "I am very sorry for what I did, and deeply apologize."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/sandy-berger-national-security-adviser-216344#ixzz3tAw7qbhL
No one knows. The speculation was these were documents that would have been damaging to the Clintons and would have been made public as a function of the 9/11 Commission.
So many bad things I want to say but I will take the high road and not say them....trust me, it was more than one thing and I’d need a confessional for an hour after I said em.
Will Jamie Gorelik do his eulogy? Will Bill Clinton laugh on his way out of the church after the funeral?...
From what I remember the docs were from the time period of the 1999 bombing of the Serbs in Kosovo.
More than likely there was info which indicated Clinton knew the KLA was allied with al Qaeda when he began bombing the Serbs on their behalf.
If Clinton knew the KLA was allied with al Qaeda then obviously the question is raised what did Clinton get in return from al Qaeda.
Of course it’s just a coincidence this is when OBL began his preparations for the 9/11 attack.
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:: Antony Blinken, the current deputy secretary of state and a Berger acolyte, tweeted, “Mourn the passing of Sandy Berger -— father, husband, mentor, friend, leader and great patriot. RIP SRB ::
Oh, gee, Antony, you forgot both “clinton sycophant” and traitor to the USA”.
Bless his soul, may he rest in peace.
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When I had a security clearance I got cited (a minor reprimand) for leaving a Secret cover sheet (with nothing under it) on a desk which wasn’t even a violation. Had I done what Burglar did I would still be awaiting parole.
What is your point? Berger was CAUGHT and PUNISHED under Bush.
Berger was afforded the respect an ex Cabinet member should be afforded. He betrayed that trust because he is a scumbag Liberal. Are you ACTUALLY placing the blame on Bush for this?
:: So many bad things I want to say but I will take the high road and not say them ::
Why not? Would you remain quiet in the face of Christ as he he condemned by Pilate? Yet, the crowd cried, “Crucify Him!”
While not that precise equivalent, traitors among us must be called out and excoriated. Berger was a verified traitor to the United States and his headstone should say so!
Anyone who has the ability should decorate his grave - every MAY31 - with a ribbon that displays the word “TRAITOR”.
Another one for the Arkancide file.
And we wonder why our international affairs are in such a messed-up and dangerous can of worms!!!
And this info also leads me to wonder just who may be secretly advising SOS John Kerry in his world-wide diplomatic and strategic blunders.....the John Kerry who is just as bad a screw-up as Hillary?
Who is Kerry's "Sandy Berger"?
Leni
Just in time to miss being able to answer all of those uncomfortable questions during Hillary’s Spring Campaign.
He was a criminal.
Will we see Bill Clinton laughing and joking as we did at Ron Browns funeral http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnQ0g4BhHss
not the impeachment trial.... much more nefarious, he took the documents during the 911 commission meetings to determine how the terror attacks happened. He risked jail and reputation to cover up something that would have implicated Clinton Admin in the Bin Laden attacks. He took that secret to the grave that is the level of lies and deceit that we are dealing with in all things Clinton......
In after scores of dumped documents in penile proximity pontifications
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