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Former president also takes swipe at Bush Bill Clinton defended his embattled national security adviser Tuesday as a man who "always got things right," even if his desk was a mess. "We were all laughing about it on the way over here," the former president said of the investigation into Samuel "Sandy" Berger on classified terrorism documents missing from the National Archives. "People who don't know him might find it hard to believe. But ... all of us who've been in his office have always found him buried beneath papers." In an interview with The Denver Post, Clinton questioned the...

According to Newsmax, Sandy Berglar was seen by witnesses stuffing documents in his socks: Newsmax on Sock-Gate...Reports CNN's Bob Franken: "Three law enforcement sources talking to CNN's Justice Department correspondent Kelli Arena [say] they saw him, or that he had been seen, putting documents in his socks." ... [snip] We need to throw the book at Sandy "Socks" Bergler. Can we be sure it's all just 9-11-01 related? What about Chinagate? Documents are missing. How many documents have been checked? Have the returned papers been examined to notice foot fungus or sock fibers? [I'm serious. Hiding documents in one's pants...

Just heard on CBS that no charges will be brought against Berger. The spin misters are saying they were only copies not the real documents.. It's time to make the calls to the elected ones!!!!!

The law requires, and people of good conscience are obliged to assume, that former Clinton National Security Adviser and current Kerry for President foreign policy adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger is innocent of the crime of stealing highly classified documents from the National Archives. But inquiring minds are quivering with ferret-like anticipation, while Democratic and Republican politicians are digging their spikes into their respective starting blocks, as Washington is once again off to the scandal races. As in all true Washington scandals, most of the commentators in politics and journalism come to the scandal predisposed to defend or eviscerate the...

Bill Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger, is the subject of a criminal investigation for illicitly removing highly classified documents about the 1999 millennium bombing plot and handwritten notes he took from a secure reading room at the National Archives. Some of the classified documents taken by Mr. Berger are still missing. Mr. Berger (who resigned yesterday as a foreign-policy adviser to presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry) was in the Archives last summer and fall preparing, at Mr. Clinton's request, the previous administration's response to questions from the commission investigating the September 11 terrorist attacks. Mr. Berger and his attorney...

'STOCKING-STUFFER' BERGER QUITS KERRY By DEBORAH ORIN and VINCENT MORRIS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 21, 2004 -- WASHINGTON — Former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger — under criminal investigation for sneaking top-secret documents out of the National Archives in his pants legs and, possibly, his socks — abruptly quit yesterday as an adviser to John Kerry. The "sock-doc" probe into Berger's conduct threatened to explode into a major headache for Kerry before next week's Democratic convention, where his top goal is to convince Americans that he can be trusted with national security. Berger, who served under then-President Bill Clinton, has been acting...

Terror-threat paper at center of criminal probe not shared with incoming Bush administration In testimony before the 9-11 Commission in April, Attorney General John Ashcroft pointed to a National Security Council document now at the center of the FBI's investigation of former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, urging the panel to ask why its warnings and "blueprint" to thwart al-Qaida's plans to target the U.S. were ignored by the Clinton administration and not shared with the incoming Bush security staff. Drafts of the sensitive NSC "Millennium After Action Review" on the Clinton administration's handling of al-Qaida terror threats during the...

Fox just reported that not only did Sandy Berger conceal documents in his jacket and pants but also stuffed them in his socks. WOW!

CLINTON SAYS BERGER-DOCUMENTS FUROR IS JUST POLITICS: 'WE WERE ALL LAUGHING ABOUT IT' Tue Jul 20 2004 20:54:50 ET Former president Bill Clinton defends his embattled national security advisor as a man who "always got things right," even if his desk was a mess. "We were all laughing about it," Clinton said about the investigation into Sandy Berger for taking classified terrorism documents from the National Archives. "People who don't know him might find it hard to believe. But ... all of us who've been in his office have always found him buried beneath papers." MORE DRUDGE has learned: In...

Yes, Down My Pants. Oh, Like You Haven't?   Berger Story -- Dem Talking Points -- It's The Timing of the Leak, Not the Offense!  Just ask them how many classified documents they have "inadvertantly" stuck in their pants.  The People will fixate on the "Sandburglar".      Berger Theft Summarized by me, Kerry and Clinton Connections, and Implications...     Fallout Continues Over Clinton Aide's Handling of Secret Memos   "inadvertantly" is the DNC talking point of the day.    Clinton’s Former Aide Drops Windfall in the Lap of Bush Campaign    SANDY BERGER QUITS KERRY CAMPAIGN!  I like...

7 minutes ago To: National Desk, Political Reporter Contact: Phil Singer of the Kerry-Edwards Campaign, 202-464-2800 WASHINGTON, July 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) released the following statement today on Samuel R. Berger: "Sandy Berger is my friend, and he has tirelessly served this nation with honor and distinction. I respect his decision to step aside as an adviser to the campaign until this matter is resolved objectively and fairly." Paid for by John Kerry for President, Inc.

The Washington Post essentially recaps the AP story last night on Trousergate, Sandy Berger's theft of classified documents from a secure room last October, although they manage to leave out the trousers from their article. However, the story has shifted into a more muted tone in the hands of Susan Schmidt and Dan Eggen: The FBI is investigating Clinton administration national security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger's removal of classified documents from the National Archives, attorneys for Berger confirmed last night. Berger inadvertently took copies of several versions of an after-action memo on the millennium bombing plot from the Archives...

Listen to Rush…(...explain just how serious the Sandy Berger document theft is) BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: President Clinton's national security advisor Sandy Burglar is the focus of a justice department investigation. Do you know this has been going on? This was first discovered last October, and the investigation has been going on. I mean, this thing, the pilferage (story) of these classified docs, happened last October and the investigation has been going on since the end of January. The 9/11 commission leaked this. This is a 9/11 commission leak, I think, and I'm wondering. The White House claims they didn't know...

Please post any and all references to the Breaking news about Sandy "Pantsload" Berger and his sloppy habit of stuffing documents in his pants, socks and elsewhere.. Just wondering how the spin will be on the ABCCBSNBC left wing lapdog bootlicking extremist media.. I'm gonna hold my nose and watch CBS for a few...

Neil Cavuto just announced: Sandy "Pantloads" Berger quits Kerry Campaign!

Bad news for John Kerry: In its shamefully inadequate coverage of the Sandy Berger scandal, even the New York Times today admitted that he was an adviser to the Democrat presidential candidate. Terry McAuliffe's favorite propaganda sheet, of course, merely mentioned the connection in passing, but fortunately Fox News Channel and other media are digging below the surface. "I think the problem here is Sandy Berger is a close adviser of Sen. John Kerry, and there's a certain discipline you have to have in this business … We're all political animals ... we're all trying to get a leg up...

SEN. SAXBY CHAMBLISS: 'Reportedly these documents are related to homeland security and then suddenly we see the Kerry campaign came forward with what may have been illegal documents. This is sensitive stuff and was a significant breach of security...Kerry knows better than to use these documents,' Chambliss says in a press conference.SEN. GORDON SMITH: 'There is a curious connection between the removal of these documents and the Kerry press conference on port security..It's disappointing what people might do as they try and take the President down.

<p>Ok, this is what I have put together thus far, which I feel needs to be reported as one single story with dots being connected.</p> <p>This is a serious Breach. As he is no longer in Government, what would happen if you or I did that? Would we still be walking around free? Somehow I doubt it.</p>

Sandy Berger should be prosecuted with the same zeal as the Watergate burglers were over 30 years ago. The investigation should also follow the responsibility trail to where ever it leads. The Watergate investigation lead to the resignation of Richard Nixon. If he acted on the request of Bill Clinton, then the dots should be connected and persued. In any event, this burglery has national security inplications and should be treated as such.

When nabbed stuffing top-secret material down his pants and socks to spirit them out of the National Archives, Berger was in the process of testifying before the 911 Commission about the extent of his and the Clinton administration's efforts (or lack thereof) to brief the incoming Bush administration about security issues which led to the 9/11 WTC and Pentagon bombings. Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger was National Security Advisor to President Clinton beginning December 6, 1996. Berger was born on October 28, 1945 in Brooklyn, New York. His father eager to leave the city moved the family to Millerton, New York....