Still we have to deal with Bill

[Gonz]

Re: Docs. in Socks

Dan Rather: George Bush, never having a reputation for honesty, has new problems today after it was revealed that he ordered his national security advisor to commit multiple felonies and, if she were caught, he would pardon her. Tomorrow, we will be getting a reaction from our good friend, Fidel Castro, to understand the impact it might have on his progressive island paradise. Then, I will be reporting from a Democratic fundraiser where I will be speaking.

 

[Gonz]

It's now Washington Post material. Maybe I ought to be suspicious.

Last Oct. 2, former Clinton national security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger stayed huddled over papers at the National Archives until 8 p.m.

Berger, his attorney Lanny Breuer said, checked his office and realized for the first time that he had walked out -- unintentionally, he says -- with important papers relating to the Clinton administration's efforts to combat terrorism.

Several days later, after he had retained Breuer as counsel, Berger volunteered that he had also taken 40 to 50 pages of notes during three visits to the Archives beginning in July, the lawyer said. Berger turned the notes over to the Archives. He has acknowledged through attorneys that he knowingly did not show these papers to Archives officials for review before leaving -- a violation of Archives rules, but not one that he perceived as a serious security lapse.

The documents that Berger has acknowledged taking -- some of which remain missing -- are different drafts of a January 2000 "after-action review" of how the government responded to terrorism plots at the turn of the millennium. The document was written by White House anti-terrorism coordinator Richard A. Clarke, at Berger's direction when he was in government.

At the end of the day, Archives employees determined that that draft and all four or five other versions of the millennium memo had disappeared from the files, this source said.

Sources have told The Washington Post, and other news organizations, that Berger was witnessed stuffing papers into his clothing. Through attorneys and spokesmen, Berger has denied doing that.

Can anybody say coverup? Why are they (he) after that particular set of drafts? What did Bill know & when did he know it?

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[Gonz]

Is there a crime yet?

Berger, who stepped down this week as a foreign policy adviser to Democrat John Kerry because of the flap, admits removing documents as well as 40 or 50 pages of unauthorized notes while vetting materials for the 9/11 commission. He says it was an "honest mistake."

Berger, who served under President Bill Clinton, says he accidentally destroyed some highly classified documents. Government officials wonder whether any of the documents bore handwritten notes from senior Clinton administration officials that don't appear elsewhere.

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OK, I'll grant that one can accidently drop Nationally Security Archived documents into their socks & underwear & it may have been an "honest mistake" to quote former NSA Burgler but after discovering them in his pants isn't it a stretch to say they fell into the paper shredder? C'mon, the shredder I have makes it hard to purposefully put items into its devouring mouth.

 

[catocom]

Not necessarily hard to do there Gonz....
Lets see...
Maybe after he started putting the docs in his underwear, and socks,
he found out they both smelled like shit, and tossed them all in the
shredder at the same time. Also those industrial shredder are like
a yard "chipper-shredder" they'll suck that stuff right in.

 

[The Other One]

Re: Shit--Meet Fan

A prime example of how Liberal Thinking and National Security do not mix:

....On December 4, 1999, the National Security Council’s counterterrorism coordinator, Richard Clarke, sent Mr. Berger a memo suggesting a strike in the last week of 1999 against Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. Reports the commission: “In the margin next to Clarke’s suggestion to attack Al Qaeda facilities in the week before January 1, 2000, Berger wrote, ‘no.’.

..In other words, according to the commission report, Mr. Berger was presented with plans to take action against the threat of Al Qaeda four separate times — Spring 1998, June 1999, December 1999, and August 2000. Each time, Mr. Berger was an obstacle to action. Had he been a little less reluctant to act, a little more open to taking pre-emptive action, maybe the 2,973 killed in the September 11, 2001, attacks would be alive today.

http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/g...Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/07/23&ID=Ar01000

This must be one of the documents that Burgler "lost" after he smuggled it out in his socks.

 

[Gonz]

Why wasn't the media hounding this guy like they did the Shaivo/Schindler saga or the MJ case? This is actually important.

Instead, they advise a fine of $10,000 and loss of his security clearance for three years.

WND