1994 spring : (CLINTON ADMINISTRATION DOES NOT OBJECT TO CROATIA'S REQUEST TO ALLOW THIRD-COUNTRY [IRANIAN] WEAPONS TO PASS THROUGH TO BOSNIAN MUSLIMS - See LEE HAMILTON'S 1996 EXCUSE FOR LETTING POTENTIAL TERRORISTS RECEIVE IRANIAN ARMS) In the spring of 1994, the Administration had a difficult decision to make when approached by Croatia on the question of allowing third-country weapons to pass through Croatia to the Bosnian Muslims. If we had objected to potential arms shipments from Iran, the Muslim-Croat Federation might have been destroyed in its infancy and a bad situation for the Bosnians might have worsened. The approach we took--of neither objecting to nor supporting the arms transfers--sought to balance our concern about the spread of Iranian influence against the adverse military situation facing the Federal. In the process, we did our best to serve the cause of peace in Bosnia. The arms deliveries helped sustain the Muslim-Croat Federation and reduced the military imbalance without the certain risks and pitfalls of the alternative courses of action. --------- Congressional Record: THIRD-COUNTRY ARMS DELIVERIES TO BOSNIA AND CROATIA -- HON. LEE H. HAMILTON (Extension of Remarks - June 11, 1996)
JULY 6, 2006 : (FORMER VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE 9/11 COMMISSION LEE HAMILTON JOINS SANDY "STUFFED PANTS" BERGER'S COMPANY STONEBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL) On July 6, 2006, Stonebridge International, a global strategy firm, announced that it had added a new member to its high-profile, five-member advisory board – former Democrat Rep. Lee Hamilton. True to form, the major media ignored the Hamilton appointment. They should not have. Hamilton, who had served as vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission, had just joined a firm headed by the man who had criminally undermined that very Commission, Stonebridge chairman and founder Samuel "Sandy" Berger. In the words of a recent House Committee report, Berger had perpetrated "a disturbing breach of trust and protocol that compromised the nation's national security," a breach that had come at the expense of the 9/11 Commission's very mission.
The unseemly nature of this new alliance apparently did not trouble Hamilton, Berger or the Washington media. By the spring of 2006, Berger felt sufficiently comfortable in his relationship with that media to execute a brazen, political drive-by on the one man who most seriously threatened the Clinton legacy and his own reputation, namely Rep. Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania. ----------------- "How Sandy Berger Paid Back the GOP," by Jack Cashill, World Net Daily, January 29, 2007
Thanks, interesting connection.