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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.
Zogby is an Arab-Christian, isn’t he?
Berger would have to be confirmed by the Senate. Now we know that the Senate should basically give the President whomever he wants in appointed postions, but this is precisely the kind of thing that “Advice & Consent” was designed to prevent.
Yes. And he cooked the books by biasing the polling sample and pushed phony numbers on election day. Numbers that were later used by the Left as “proof” that Gore really won.
The goal was to depress the conservative vote into staying home “give up give up, it’s already lost”.
They had the talking points ready in 2004 too. The election broadcasts began with comments about how Bush was only going to serve one term like his father and it was again because of the economy blather blather. Within 7 minutes each of the networks had to admit that Kerry was NOT going to sweep the election.
According to this John Zogby attended a Catholic university and James Zogby, his brother, is muslim
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zogby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Zogby
What audacity.I never understood how Burgaler got off so easy in the first place.This man should be in federal prison working off a life senetence.
BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER!!THEY ALL SHOULD BE IN ORANGE SUITS!
Really odd, huh?
BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER!!THEY ALL SHOULD BE IN ORANGE SUITS!
Of course, makes me grind my teeth too. Like always we fight by the Queensbury Rules while the other side is street fighting.
The biggest scandal of all of this is that career employees in the Justice Department were able to let Berger off with a slap on the wrist.
I have not seen any articles about this in two of my liberal rags. Where would citizens find about it? No where! That’s why people have fallen in love with Hillary.
The only criticism of her is found in Conservative media which are not found in too many states.
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