Never trust a fox found in the hen house (1 Viewer)

[BullDawg]

http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/news/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=4

 

[SaintJ]

New meaning to the term "oversight."

 

[iron error]

You think if Condi Rice did this in 4 years, the media would just gloss over it like they are with Berger?

His act is the most blatant criminal act you can think of, as much as the worst of the other junk politicians have done.

 

[staphory]

Does anyone know why he was taking these documents? I never heard a reason for it.

 

[BullDawg]

Does anyone know why he was taking these documents? I never heard a reason for it.

Well let's see...he was Clinton's National Security Adviser who spent a lot of time embroiled in scandal and calls for his resignation. He took the documents out of the National Archives just prior to his testimony before the 9/11 Commission.

Considering how he failed to tell his boss about the Chinese nuke espionage for over a year....well....I'm starting to see a pattern here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Berger

 

[HouDat]

Move over Reagan Administration, you've got corrupt company. The Clinton guys are coming to the party!

 

[Dave]

Sandy Berger: What Did He Take and Why Did He Take It?

The Clintons, however, take the game of deny-deceive-and-distract to a new level. Their relentless personal attacks on Ken Starr were designed to undermine the credibility of information about Bill Clinton's perjury, to deflect attention from his own failings. Clinton's excessive reaction - complete with hyperbole, finger-wagging, and scolding - to a simple question from Fox News' Chris Wallace about his response to al-Qaeda is in the same vein. Something here touches a nerve.

That nerve is exposed in the Sandy Berger saga. This story at bottom is about the security of our nation, about what was - or was not - done to protect us from the most shocking and deadly attack on American citizens by foreign agents in our nation's history. This story is critical not only to understanding our past but also to securing our future. It can help us understand what it is reasonable to expect can be done to keep us and our loved ones safe from harm. It is, in short, as important a story as there is.

He talks about how the MSM has no interest in pursuing the story:

Those who wrap themselves so frequently in the mantra of the people's right to know should want to know the truth - all the time. Sadly, today's would-be Woodwards and Bernsteins look more like ostriches than hawks, showing no curiosity about what Sandy Berger was hiding. Had that been the attitude when Watergate first appeared as a minor news story, Richard Nixon would have served out his full second term. The rest, as they say, is history.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/01/sandy_berger_what_did_he_take.html

 

[Dave]

The Berger Files

The more we learn about Sandy Berger's brilliant career as a document thief, the clearer it becomes that there is plenty we still don't know and may never learn. On Tuesday, the House Government Reform Committee released its report on Mr. Berger's pilfering of classified documents from the National Archives.

The committee's 60-page report makes it clear that Mr. Berger knew exactly what he was doing and knew that what he was doing was wrong. According to interviews with National Archives staff, Mr. Berger repeatedly arranged to be left alone with highly classified documents by feigning the need to make personal phone calls, and he used those moments alone with the files to stuff them in his pockets and briefcase.

One incident is particularly suggestive. By his fourth and final visit to review documents and prepare for testimony before the 9/11 Commission, the Archives staff had grown suspicious of how Mr. Berger was handling the documents, so they numbered each one he was given in pencil on the back of the document. When one of them--No. 217--was apparently removed from the files by Mr. Berger, the staff reprinted a copy and replaced it for his review. According to the report, Mr. Berger then proceeded to slip the second copy "under his portfolio also." In other words, he stole the same document twice.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009522

 

[TPS]

Berger should just go to jail and get it over with. Then President Bush should be shown the door as well since he has locked up the Reagan files for 50 more years. All of these people need to pay for their cheating. But unlike most of you, I can smilingly say I never voted for a Bush or a Clinton. And you can bet your *** I never voted for a Reagan.

TPS

 

[dapperdan]

Berger should just go to jail and get it over with.
TPS

In my mind, whether Berger should or should not go to jail is of secondary importance. What is of primary importance to me is that the subject matter that Berger was covering up be exposed. Specifically what was the content of the materials Berger was either trying to spirit out of the National archives, or place into the archives after the fact.