Posted on 07/21/2004 9:25:10 PM PDT by Remember_Salamis
Last Oct. 2, former Clinton national security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger stayed huddled over papers at the National Archives until 8 p.m.
What he did not know as he labored through that long Thursday was that the same Archives employees who were solicitously retrieving documents for him were also watching their important visitor with a suspicious eye.
After Berger's previous visit, in September, Archives officials believed documents were missing. This time, they specially coded the papers to more easily tell whether some went missing, said government officials and legal sources familiar with the case.
The notion of one of Washington's most respected foreign policy figures being subjected to treatment that had at least a faint odor of a sting operation is a strange one. But the peculiarities -- and conflicting versions of events and possible motives -- were just then beginning in a case that this week bucked Berger out of an esteemed position as a leader of the Democratic government-in-waiting that had assembled around presidential nominee John F. Kerry.
As his attorneys tell it, Berger had no idea in October that documents were missing from the Archives, or that archivists suspected him in the disappearance. It was not until two days later, on Saturday, Oct. 4, that he was contacted by Archives employees who said that they were concerned about missing files, from his September and October visits. This call -- in Berger's version of the chronology, which is disputed in essential respects by a government official with knowledge of the investigation -- was made with a tone of concern, but not accusation.
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At least that's my understanding.
you are so right. all this crap the dems have been doing is actually traitorous. how would an open coup look any different?
They are such shameless bastards. He commits a crime and we are the bad guys.
OMG-------.............
Berger had to know he could be caught and probably would be caught. HE wasn't doing this to protect Clinton's legacy. It's bigger than that for him to risk what he did.
By Sunday, The NYT's will have no choice but to release the Hounds. This will overshadow the Dem Convention, and those who were truly negligent are going to be exposed in a very short period of time. When Bill Clinton has to chime in about how Sandy Berger was often seen buried under piles of paper at his desk and how much he and his friends laughed about this issue should tell us all that this is a big story.
Bill Clinton defends only those who are running cover for him. After Sandy Berger falls on the Sword for Klinton, he will turn on him, like all the others
They might start a DUMP KERRY Campaign.
no big deal
"40 or 50 pages????????"
That's a pantload, for sure.
Lockhart was involved? Now he wouldn't talk with any reporters or editors, would he? I mean, he probably doesn't know many of them anyway. I forget, what was his position in the Clinton administration? Tehehehehe.
I assume that the documents which have disappeared were ones taken on the first visit? After they suspected him, why would they give him originals? These people protect pretty important stuff so I wouldn't expect them to just be dumb.
OR maybe NOTHING has truly disappeared? Maybe there really are copies of everything and someone wants to give Clinton and Co a false sense of security? Wouldn't that be delicious?
What has Hillary said about all this? She must be creating another warroom with Flynt and CO. I've been missing in action on all this stuff.
Does anybody have David Gergen's home phone number? I'd like to give him a call.
Let me get this straight. They hired one of their best junkyard dog press secretaries for this specific scandal in January, and then they accuse the Republicans of "leaking" the story in July???
It makes Kerry look like an idiot too. Apparently the Clintons are still running the show.
On FNC tonight John Gibson said at the My Word segment that Fox contacted their sources (two) who confirmed that Berger was seen stuffing documents in his socks.
??? You think the dems have a shortage of ways to spin things? I remember thinking the same thing when Clinton got his ass in the crack over Monica. I have concluded that the facts don't matter to the dems and the spin machine has extraordinary teflon bearings. Never fear. They will come up with something.
No wonder Barbara Bush hates Gergen. He's such a flunkey for the DNC.
yeah.. i regretted my bold boast immediately, lol. i was in the throes of the endorphin rush brought on by the idea.
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