Political Football

another good article here from 2007 (June)

click below to read an update from Sandy and Powerlineblog http://powerlineblog.com/archives/017054.php

Click here to read a January 15 Editorial on Sandy Berger

Sandy Berger was President Clinton’s National Security Advisor from 1997-2001, and has admitted to and has been found guilty of going into the National Archives and leaving with and distroying classified documents. This was an act of unknown desperation. What did he remove and destroy?

The fine of $50,000 and 100 hours of community service does not fit the crime.

Free Scooter Libby NOW!!!

Equal Justice?

Sandy Berger deliberately pilfered and hid classified documents. So why is Scooter Libby the one facing prison time? And why aren’t these docs on the front page of the New York Times?

National Archives Inspector General Paul Brachfield on Wednesday released a report showing that in 2004 Berger, President Clinton’s national security adviser, “knowingly removed classified documents from the National Archives and Records Administration and stored and retained such documents at places,” including temporarily under a construction trailer outside the main National Archives building.

Read more here: investors.com editorial on Sandy Berger’s “Crimes”Berger proceeded to take a break and went outside in the dark with four classified documents in his pocket. He then headed toward a construction area and looked up and down the street, into the windows of the archive building and at the Department of Justice, to see if anyone was looking. All was clear, so Berger slid the documents under a construction trailer and later retrieved them from the construction area and returned with them to his office. The National Archives inspector general, Paul Brachfeld, writes that Berger was aware of the risk he was taking and that the former national security advisor destroyed and cut into small pieces several of the documents, which he later put in the trash.

This was clearly a premeditated criminal act on Berger’s part and Outside the Beltway points out that any military or civil service employee would be in jail for such a felony. The question is, why would Clinton’s national security advisor turn into a thief, disgrace himself and betray his country? Pundit Review speculates that Clinton was clearly trying to hide something.

Read more here: corruption chronicles

American Thinker editorial

What he did not know as he labored through that long Thursday was that the same Archives employees who were solicitously retrieving documents for him were also watching their important visitor with a suspicious eye.

After Berger’s previous visit, in September, Archives officials believed documents were missing. This time, they specially coded the papers to more easily tell whether some disappeared, said government officials and legal sources familiar with the case.

Read more here: WaPost article

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