"Mr. Berger panicked because he realized he
was caught."
He then slid the documents under a construction trailer ...
"He was aware of the risk he was taking,"
The notes said that Berger had "destroyed, cut into small pieces, three of the four documents. These were put in the trash."
Wow. The left believes it can get away with anything and they can. Read this with incredulity. Dumbfounded. Sandy Berger, nformal adviser to the Kerry campaign (perfect) and Clinton appointtee to vet Clinton-administration documents before those documents were turned over to the September 11 investigating commission (more perfect) was let off with a mere slap on the wrist. He
admitted last week, the account he initially gave federal
was fined $50,000, ordered to perform 100 hours of community service
and was barred from access to classified material for three years and look at what a lowlife he was. This man should be rotting in jail. But Scooter Libby is sweating for an offense that never happened. What a world. Via Drudge
"He headed toward a construction area. ... Mr. Berger looked up and
down the street, up into the windows of the Archives and the DOJ
(Department of Justice), and did not see anyone," the interview notes
said.
He then slid the documents under a construction trailer, according to
the inspector general. Berger acknowledged that he later retrieved the
documents from the construction area and returned with them to his
office.
"He was aware of the risk he was taking," the inspector general's notes
said. Berger then returned to the Archives building without fearing the
documents would slip out of his pockets or that staff would notice that
his pockets were bulging.
The notes said Berger had not been aware that Archives staff had been
tracking the documents he was provided because of earlier suspicions
from previous visits that he was removing materials. Also, the
employees had made copies of some documents.
In October 2003, the report said, an Archives official called Berger to
discuss missing documents from his visit two days earlier. The
investigator's notes said, "Mr. Berger panicked because he realized he
was caught."
The notes said that Berger had "destroyed, cut into small pieces, three of the four documents. These were put in the trash."
After the trash had been picked up, Berger "tried to find the trash collector but had no luck," the notes said.
Significant portions of the inspector general's report were redacted to protect privacy or national security. Article here.
Astounding. Back in April 2005, the Washington Times ran this oped;
When confronted, Mr. Berger lied. He told investigators he had
mistakenly taken the documents and then disposed of them inadvertently
afterward. In public statements on the matter he called the theft "an
honest mistake." He declared his only intent had been to collect
materials for testimony about the Clinton administration's
counterterrorism policies for the September 11 Commission. At the time,
Bill Clinton dismissed the matter with a chuckle. "The innocent
explanation is the most likely one," Mr. Clinton told reporters in
Colorado. "We were all laughing about it on the way over here."
But it wasn't innocent, and it wasn't a laughing matter. As
Mr. Berger
investigators was wrong. The plea agreement he reached with the
Department of Justice details that, in fact, he deliberately removed
the documents from the National Archives and that far from disposing of
them mistakenly, he cut them to pieces with scissors. None of this was
inadvertent, a Berger associate acknowledged last week to the
Washington Post.
What was Mr. Berger doing with the documents? And why did he
destroy only three? The likeliest answer is that he sought to conceal
comments he or other Clinton administration officials wrote on them
when they were circulating in January 2000. He couldn't have been
trying to erase the document itself from the record, since copies
besides the five exist elsewhere. What's likelier is that jottings in
the margins of the three copies he destroyed bore telling indications
of the Clinton administration's approach to terrorism.
Photo shop: Rush
UPDATE: JJ has written this witty ditty in the comments section and it deserves main page prominence. jj, this rocks, love love love it.
sandy berger’s pants
he gots ants in his pants
and a bowling ball, blue,
three pairs of socks,
and an old brown shoe.
he gots ants in his pants,
some bricks and some mortar, too,
some sand and six pounds o’ rocks,
gots to repair an old chimney flue.
stuffed his briefcase under his belt,
full of papers and micro-fishies
hand carried his lunch out in a paper sack,
didn’t want no mayo, gettin’ on his micro penis-iche.
he gots ants in his pants,
a framed autographed glossy of monica, brand new,
two ink pens and a magic marker,
and an old recipe for whatchacallit stew.
he gots ants in his pants,
why, my goodness, if you worked for bill, wouldn’t you?
gots some sins and omissions for the commissions,
why, my goodness, working for bill, whatchagonna do?
oh yeah, he gots ants in his pants,
and some used-to-be-state-secret stuff, can’t view,
i’d like to know some of that guff, wouldn’t you?
but, my goodness, working for bill, what you gonna do?
end up like vincent, with the 9 millimeter flu?
oh, sandy, he gots ants in his pants,
some chump change, case he gots to get frugal
and a road map of arkansas, and environs,
case he gots to go hide, with the billings, and susan mcdougal.
chorus for soros, ….
so who gots the papers,
think that they belongs to billy,
or do you ‘spose, just like the law office billings
that they wind up on a desk belonging to hilly?
she smells like the sweetest rose, if they vanish in the vapors.
oh, yeah, just vanish in the air, like a wraith of swirling ether.
john jay @ 09.17.2006
"A person facing into the giant
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