Berger's trail: something stinks
Prepping for the 911 Commission, former Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, stole documents from the National Archives, stuffing them in his shirt, pants, and socks. They're still missing. He pled guilty recently, but nary a blip on the MSM radar. Read all about it in Instapundit's archive. Read especially Dick Morris's NYP piece on the subject.
Double standard? If there is a lack of attention to Berger's crime, is it because it's what we've come to expect from someone who served the nation under Bill Clinton? One is always tempted to say, under such circumstances (i.e., lack of press coverage/outrage over a prominent Dem's indiscretions/crimes) that it would be a different story if, say, Condi Rice were caught stealing documents that should have gone to the Commission investigating 911.
Why would a high-level government official steal documents? The obvious conclusion is that Berger was trying to hide something from the Commission to protect the reputation/careers of Clinton administration officials (including his own?). Perhaps he has saved others, but could not save himself. Once slated to be President Kerry's Secretary of State, it appears Berger's service to the nation is now over. Why he's not serving in federal prison is a mystery -- unless he is now cooperating with authorities to bag the people whose reputations/freedom (from prison?) he had formerly tried to save.
The bottom line is that, thanks to Berger's theft, we don't know the whole story (perhaps the best parts of the story) about why 911 happened -- what the Clinton administration knew about al Qaeda, bin Laden, et al., when it knew, and what it did (or didn't do) about it.
Double standard? If there is a lack of attention to Berger's crime, is it because it's what we've come to expect from someone who served the nation under Bill Clinton? One is always tempted to say, under such circumstances (i.e., lack of press coverage/outrage over a prominent Dem's indiscretions/crimes) that it would be a different story if, say, Condi Rice were caught stealing documents that should have gone to the Commission investigating 911.
Why would a high-level government official steal documents? The obvious conclusion is that Berger was trying to hide something from the Commission to protect the reputation/careers of Clinton administration officials (including his own?). Perhaps he has saved others, but could not save himself. Once slated to be President Kerry's Secretary of State, it appears Berger's service to the nation is now over. Why he's not serving in federal prison is a mystery -- unless he is now cooperating with authorities to bag the people whose reputations/freedom (from prison?) he had formerly tried to save.
The bottom line is that, thanks to Berger's theft, we don't know the whole story (perhaps the best parts of the story) about why 911 happened -- what the Clinton administration knew about al Qaeda, bin Laden, et al., when it knew, and what it did (or didn't do) about it.
posted by Barney at 8:16 AM
1 Comments:
I am a bit astonished that such a thing could possibly have been done by a man who was a key player in "the most ethical administration in history," as Mr. Clinton himself once characterized it.
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