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Posted on 10/08/2007 7:04:28 AM PDT by Roberts
WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Sandy Berger, who stole highly classified terrorism documents from the National Archives, destroyed them and lied to investigators, is now an adviser to presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. Berger, who was fired from John Kerry’s presidential campaign when the scandal broke in 2004, has assumed a similar role in Clinton’s campaign, even though his security clearance has been suspended until September 2008. This is raising eyebrows even among Clinton’s admirers.
“It shows poor judgment and a lack of regard for Berger’s serious misdeeds,” said law professor Jonathan Adler of Case Western Reserve University, who nonetheless called Clinton “by far the most impressive candidate in the Democratic field.”
Adler told The Examiner that it is “simply incomprehensible to me that a serious contender for the presidency would rely upon him as a key foreign policy advisor.”
He added: “If Senator Clinton becomes the Democratic nominee, at some point she will begin to receive national security briefings that will include sensitive information. At such a point, continuing to keep Berger on board as a key advisor, where he might have access to sensitive material, would be beyond incomprehensible.”
The Clinton campaign declined to comment.
Berger has admitted stealing documents from the National Archives in advance of the 9/11 Commission hearings in 2003. The documents, written by White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, were a “tough review” of the Clinton administration’s shortcomings in dealing with terrorism, Clarke’s lawyer told the Washington Post.
On several occasions, Berger stuffed highly classified documents into his pants and socks before spiriting them out of the Archives building in Washington, according to investigators. On one occasion, upon reaching the street, he hid documents under a construction trailer after checking the windows of the Archives and Justice Department buildings to make sure he was not being watched.
Berger came back later and retrieved the documents, taking them home and cutting them up with scissors. Two days later, he was informed by Archive employees that his removal of documents had been detected.
“Berger panicked because he realized he was caught,” said a report by the National Archives inspector general, which also recounted his initial reaction. “Berger lied.”
Berger also lied to the public, telling reporters he made an “honest mistake” by “inadvertently” taking the documents, which he blamed on his own “sloppiness.” Bill Clinton vouched for the explanation for Berger, who served as his national security adviser.
Berger later conceded: “I was giving a benign explanation for what was not benign.”
The Justice Department initially said Berger stole only copies of classified documents and not originals. But the House Government Reform Committee later revealed that an unsupervised Berger had been given access to classified files of original, uncopied, uninventoried documents on terrorism. Several Archives officials acknowledged that Berger could have stolen any number of items and they “would never know what, if any, original documents were missing.”
At his sentencing in September 2005, Berger was fined $50,000, placed on probation for two years and stripped of his security clearance for three years.
Not incomprehensible at all if the contender is covering up a crime.
Just Wow.
To me, this illustrates the absolute gall, utter disrespect and contempt that the Clintons have for people.
Exactly...this should come as no surprise.
The whole “Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil” crowd, which is simply evil...stick together.
Simply incredulous. Even Kerry fired him after finding out what he did at the national archives. Looks like she’s trying to sink her own ship.
And yet, none of them seem to be held accountable for their wrong-doing.
At least she’ll know where to look when the documents stolen from Vince Foster’s office are missing.
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I can’t believe Hillary is highest in the polls.People will still vote for this peice of scum!!!!!!!....
The 3 year suspension of his security clearance was a farce. It expires just before the election and he was very unlikely to have gotten a job allowing access to classified documents before then anyway. That would be like saying that my diet consists of not eating between midnight and 6 AM when I'm asleep anyway.
Oh look, he gets his Top Secret government authorized security clearance REINSTATED just in time for hitlerys potus run. How convenient.
He should have had it stripped for life and barred from ever again holding any position in government. We The People are played for saps once again.
We are almost to the point of there being film of Hillary killing someone in cold blood and the MSM and the democrat voters saying, “Ohhh, its only one murder. Everybody does at least one murder. Can’t we just move on?”
Artist: With apologies to: Yardbirds
Song: Hang on sloppy
Album:
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sloppy lives in a very bad part of town
and everybody else, tries to put my sloppy down
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Cuz you know sloppy, girl, I’m inlove with you
and so I say now
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(yeah) (yeah) (yeah) (yeah)
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Exactly! Another sickening display of Republican cowardice.
As long as he doesn’t tap his feet in the washroom or get caught sucking the toes of a prostitute, there will be no blowback over this.
What is amazing is that the Clintons not only have no decorum when it comes to working with criminals, but actually present an attitude of “just try and stop me” to the public.
Hillary’s campaign is nothing but one big security breech. and with the Clintons it is not q matter of whether a foreign entity might get our national technology and secrets, it is only a question of which one will have the top bid (assuming we have any left for sale).
He should be doing life in prison for destroying national security documents that cast the previous administration in a bad light in the wake of the 9-11 attacks.
“Simply incredulous. Even Kerry fired him after finding out what he did at the national archives. Looks like she’s trying to sink her own ship.”
Looks like it, doesn’t it. But then, we have to remember that Hillary truely believes that the American people are very stupid. She also knows that the MSM will do everything in their power to cover for her to keep the truth away from the public.
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