Seems like Samuel “Sandy” Berger, national security adviser under former President Bill Clinton, and now foreign policy adviser to John Kerry, lifted classified documents from the National Archives while preparing to appear before the Sept. 11 commission. Once the National Archives discovered the “theft,” Berger claims he “immediately returned everything I had, except for a few documents that apparently I had ** accidentally discarded. **”
** One or more copies of a memo, an analysis of the Clinton administration’s anti-terror efforts around the millennium, are still missing. **
This is rich. Is it even plausible that you can ** “accidentally” ** remove classified documents from the National Archives? Assuming that is possible, how can you then ** “accidentally discard” ** these same classified materials?
He said he put some sticky-notes in his jacket pocket. I am beginning to get a better understanding on how the US government documents threats to its national security.
Cliton was good for his health care reforms which he couldn't pass through congress, other than that he was more focused on his interns than anything else.
I don't think the interns took up too much of his time or focus, it was defending himself from Republicans that took away from his time leading the country.
I think Monica Lewinsky would agree with ahmadjee. In fact, I received an email with a statement she purportedly released yesterday regarding Pres. Clinton's Book "My Life."
"I have had enough! This whole experience has left a bitter taste in my mouth and I can't stomach any more. I feel as if I am getting the shaft, that this ugly matter has come to a head and blown up in my face. This may be a load to handle, but when things are hard, that is when I am at my best. I have faced hard things in the past and I know what is coming. I will meet the challenge the only way I know how: head on. I have licked bigger things than this before, and I will again. No one will ever be able to say that Monica Lewinsky isn't a finisher, that she quit before the job was done. I will work non-stop and fight this blow by blow, until I am wiped clean of this dirty affair. I will not be stained by it. As for Bill Clinton, I hope he gets a stiff penalty. Thank you!"
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I think Monica Lewinsky would agree with ahmadjee. In fact, I received an email with a statement she purportedly released yesterday regarding Pres. Clinton's Book "My Life."
"I have had enough! This whole experience has left a bitter taste in my mouth and I can't stomach any more. I feel as if I am getting the shaft, that this ugly matter has come to a head and blown up in my face. This may be a load to handle, but when things are hard, that is when I am at my best. I have faced hard things in the past and I know what is coming. I will meet the challenge the only way I know how: head on. I have licked bigger things than this before, and I will again. No one will ever be able to say that Monica Lewinsky isn't a finisher, that she quit before the job was done. I will work non-stop and fight this blow by blow, until I am wiped clean of this dirty affair. I will not be stained by it. As for Bill Clinton, I hope he gets a stiff penalty. Thank you!"
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lol....this post is really a good one...........i bet it left a bitter taste in her mouth........are we getting too nasty here or we can absorb that much of "nastiness" considering it a political joke..........
Given the details emerging last night on the evening news, it appears as if there is something to see here if you only keep looking. Now we hear that the ** accidental removal ** of the documents involved stuffing classified documents into Berger’s pants and socks. Nothing too strange there I guess. After all, I often discover that papers from my office inadvertently got stuffed into my pants when I undress at home after work and get ready for bed. I just scratch my head and wonder “how did those get there?”
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Why was this year old non-story leaked now?
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Why was the theft of classified documents by Clinton's national security advisor kept secret for a year?
As to the timing of the release of information, my guess is that someone finally got fed up with having a guy who pilfered classified documents from the National Archives acting as a high level foreign policy advisor to John Kerry. Berger knew he was under investigation. Kerry undoubtedly knew Berger was under investigation. A whole bunch of folks on Capitol Hill knew it but kept it as their dirty little secret. As long as it was kept a dirty little secret, Kerry had no problem having Berger as a foreign policy advisor. Now that this dirty secret becomes public, Sandy has got to go. Don't you find something just a wee bit wrong with this picture? Wouldn't most people think that the theft of classified documents would preclude involvement of the thief in a Presidential campaign advisory capacity? Or is it only when the theft becomes public knowledge that the thief is excluded?
It’s an ongoing investigation that should have been kept under the lid while the investigation is ongoing or you get what we have here, political pundits speculating and going off the deep on a non-story. Timely leaks seem prevalent in this current administration as well as grabbing stories before anything’s there (remember Kerry’s alleged mistress )
Funny stuff. If recollection serves me, it was Wesley Clark’s campaign that released the story on the mistress.
As to keeping the lid on an investigation, since when has that been the modus operandi in Washington DC? Seems to me that keeping this a secret for a whole year is pretty much the exception rather than the rule.
So the story goes that Socks the cat shoved pants down his documents? Seems rather preposterous, cats don't have the thumbs needed to perform such a task. Before this goes any further myvoice I think guppies have the right to see what you have shoved down your pants.
You mean - you've never accidentally walked into a guarded safe room, - stuffed classified documents into your shirt, pants, and socks, accidentally walked out with them - and then accidently lost them?
Hell - I've already done that twice this week.
This is a complete non-story - as evidenced by the fact that the NY Times didn't cover it - for all the libs out there don't worry I am sure the CNN aka Clinton News Network will get back shortly to covering the "quagmire" that is Iraq.
and wonder “how did those get there?”
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