Will Sandy Berger Finally Face Real Punishment?
This one man American traitor single-handedly stole and possibly destroyed evidence the 9/11 Commission and posterity needed to ensure the massive failure of intelligence that led to the terror attacks never happens again. The Justice Department let him slide… Republican lawmakers say “not so fast, Sandy!”
The Justice Department should administer a polygraph test to former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger to find out what documents he took from the National Archives in 2002 and 2003, Rep. Tom Davis wrote in a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales dated Monday.
Davis, ranking Republican on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, is leading a group of 18 lawmakers who say the Justice Department has been “remarkably incurious” about Berger’s decision to remove documents relating to the Sept. 11 commission’s inquiry into his role in helping prevent terror attacks during the Clinton administration.
“It is extraordinarily important that the Justice Department avail itself of its rights under the plea agreement and administer a polygraph examination to Mr. Berger to question him about the extent of his thievery. This may be the only way for anyone to know whether Mr. Berger denied the 9/11 commission and the public the complete account of the Clinton administration’s actions or inactions during the lead up to the terrorist attacks on the United States,” Davis wrote.
The letter was signed by all Republican members of Congress.
In case you forgot the crimes of espionage committed by the former Clintonista…
Berger admitted to taking documents on two of the four occasions he went to the National Archives to bone up on his responses for the Sept. 11 commission on his inquiry into how intelligence and law enforcement communities failed to prevent the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States. He said he hid some of them at a construction site near the archives building in Washington.
I’m wondering why no Democrat Members of Congress have signed the letter? Do they approve of Sticky Fingers Sandy’s actions of treason?
By the way… is it just me or does Scooter Libby’s alleged lying about an already well-known CIA agent pale in comparison to the devastating actions by Clinton’s former National Security Advisor? Well, you wouldn’t know by the media coverage ratio of both stories.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
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Umm, we really don’t know that Berger’s actions have been “devastating” to our understanding of anything. He could have just been hiding personal embarassments. Clinton and Monica could have made a stain on one of the document copies he stole, for example.
I think that’s the real point: We CAN’T know. Berger has denied us the possibility. Though allegedly a public servant, Berger decided that his need to avoid embarassment supersedes the public’s right to understand what went on in the Clinton Administration.
Others holders of security clearances would certainly be in jail if they committed the same actions.
Comment by Calarato — January 24, 2007 @ 10:37 am - January 24, 2007
And of course, will anyone in the Drive-By Media ask the Hildebeast about corruption in her husband’s administration?
Yeah – when pigs fly.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — January 24, 2007 @ 12:49 pm - January 24, 2007
I have never understood the kid glove handling of the whole Sandy Berger crime. It is almost like he stole a piece of gum from the candy store rather than classified documents during a hearing investigating issues related to those documents.
I suspect that if Berger had been a republican the democrats and MSM would have been hollering for his head every day for months.
Comment by just me — January 24, 2007 @ 4:27 pm - January 24, 2007
Of course. Scooter Libby did far less damage in the whole Plame-Wilson NON-scandal – and he is literally on trial as we speak, defending himself from criminal jeopardy.
Makes you think.
Comment by Calarato — January 24, 2007 @ 4:54 pm - January 24, 2007
#4 – Cal, that’s something that libs don’t do – think. They FEEL, remember?
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — January 24, 2007 @ 5:06 pm - January 24, 2007
While Davis is pushing to nail Burglar, there needs to be a push to nail al-NYT etc. as well.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — January 25, 2007 @ 1:48 am - January 25, 2007
the righgt wing blogosphere throws this story out every week and it never sticks. just accept it, no one cares.
ever heard the expression “there’s no “there” there?” Everyone knows he took the documents when he shouldn’t have. there’s nothing else to the story. Do you think he was going to sell the memos to a foreign memo collector?
There’s no motive for anything other than the stated reason of preparing for the 9/11 commision.
Comment by lester — January 25, 2007 @ 2:10 pm - January 25, 2007
lester, you’re wrong on dismissing the value or importance of the secreted and destroyed copies of the documents… you do know those were copies of documents Berger had and that the originals are still stored on hard drives at the Archives, right? He destroyed copies and/or hid them at a nearby construction site after stuffing them down his pants… that was the reason for the plea deal by DOJ and, in fact, the judge in the case raised the penalty from $10k to $50k, which he paid.
To help you out: we don’t know which copies and what, if any, notes were on those copies… we can’t know until the time-for-release embargo is met in 2017 or whenever. Berger won’t tell. There is a record of which documents he reviewed, but releasing those would we violating the National Secrets Act… again.
Asking Berger to take a polygraph is a stunt. I disagree with you that it isn’t an important stunt… ’cause as the Democrats have proved readily to the GOP, PR stunts sometimes work. And repeating even baseless accusations (W avoided the VN war service, etc) sometimes stick.
Just look at all the “impeachment” cries of the last 6 years… and the successful effort to discredit W’s presidency by the Dems.
Comment by Michigan-Matt — January 25, 2007 @ 2:38 pm - January 25, 2007
There’s no motive for anything other than the stated reason of preparing for the 9/11 commision.
How, exactly, does one prepare for a commission by taking copies of documents out in one’s pants and deliberately hiding them at a construction site?
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Ted Kennedy should be asked every day from this point forward how they and their fellow Democrats like lester believe that Berger’s actions were simply his means of preparing for the 9/11 commission.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — January 25, 2007 @ 3:43 pm - January 25, 2007
north dallas- okay. I could explain it but what is your explanation? I’m trying to help you here. maybe if you can come up with an intersting scenerio people will actually pay attemntion to this story the 435th time you put it out there.
what do YOU thinki berger was doing?
what was he covering up? Do you think the memos, which he himself had written about a two years before 9/11. have information about the 9/11 hijackers?
again, what is your explanation. and don’ t re-tell me about how he took th documents. we go it.
now, if you will, the REST of the story?
Comment by lester — January 27, 2007 @ 6:47 pm - January 27, 2007
For an unsympathetic but deeply factual view on Sandy Berger’s malfeasance, see
SANDY BERGER SHOULD BE IN JAIL (Nimble Books, January 2007)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0978813855/ref=nosim
http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/sandy-berger-should-be-in-jail/
Comment by Fred Zimmerman — January 28, 2007 @ 10:32 pm - January 28, 2007
north dallas- okay. I could explain it but what is your explanation?
He was trying to destroy documents that demonstrated that he and Bill Clinton in fact several times called off the killing of Osama bin Laden.
And now, let’s hear your explanation.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — January 29, 2007 @ 2:56 am - January 29, 2007
#12 – This oughtta be interesting. Wait, let me take my seat for this one.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — January 29, 2007 @ 12:36 pm - January 29, 2007
peter- that’s at least a theory, I give you credit for that. But that is not what he took. the things that are missing are related to the millenium bombing of early 2000, which was famously averted by a attentive security guard. Also, if he wrote memos, they would exist elswhere, namely to whomever the memos were sent to in the first place.
there has already been testimony and it is accepted wisdom that berger and clinton called off killing bin laden because of namby pamby political decisions that they have expressed regret for. You can’t destroy what people have written books about. There are also computer files for all that stuff. I sincerely doubt berger destroyed computer files of stuff just on the lucky chance that he now had an excuse, the 9/11 commision, to go in there and do it.
But again, thank you for at least livening the story up. you should consider adding that wrinkle next time you post the sandy berger story. who knows maybe you’ll get some non right wing nutsos to care!
Comment by lester — January 29, 2007 @ 3:53 pm - January 29, 2007
#14 – Uh, lester, I wasn’t the one who responded to you. THAT was NorthDallas30.
I was merely waiting to see what kind of hare-brained “evidence” you were presenting, either from DU or Kos talking points or your own tinfoil-hat-lined conspiracy theories.
Glad to see you didn’t let me down.
ND30 – over to you.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — January 29, 2007 @ 4:27 pm - January 29, 2007
peter- evidence for what? I’m trying to help you make this story interesting. All you guys in the blogosphere do is tell the same thing every month hoping it will stick. Your theory is in insane. YOu think the entire history of clintons dealing with al queda were in sandy bergers memos? the CIA has files. the FBI. Berger took the stuff he had to testify about because the stupid library closes at 5. You can’t just make this story page one because you feel like seeing it there. you go t nothing. there’s no story. he took the things. he had a good reason but he took them. it’s nothing. and the fact that no one cares is proof
Comment by lester — January 29, 2007 @ 8:34 pm - January 29, 2007
Berger took the stuff he had to testify about because the stupid library closes at 5.
And then, inexplicably, rather than taking it home so he could read it, he went to a construction site and hid it.
Now you’re going to tell us THAT’s normal behavior for a leftist Democrat who had nothing to hide and who wasn’t trying to cover up anything.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — January 30, 2007 @ 7:03 pm - January 30, 2007
I believe that all acts of treason should be extensively punished so that no lesser minded person (
aka Sandy Berger ) will think twice about doing treason’s acts not some slap on the wrist whats your views.
Comment by tyler — February 22, 2010 @ 9:56 pm - February 22, 2010