Berger Meal/Deal Scandal

Posted by johnhouk on Jan 10, 2007
President Clinton’s National Security Advisor Sandy Berger was caught removing and destroying classified documents after the Clinton Presidency and after the terrorism of 9/11.

The ranking member of the 110th Congress Oversight and Government Reform Committee Rep. Tom Davis (VA – R) has released a public statement stipulating the actions of Berger will not be extensively known (i.e. unless Berger blabs – that is unlikely) and thus the damage to National Security and the full picture of the September 11, 2001 attacks delivered to the 9/11 Commission was incomplete.

Can anyone say, “Yet another conspiracy to cover the butts of the Clinton husband and wife team.”? Here is the clincher: Berger is receiving a slap on the wrist for his treasonous acts.

The Berger Deal/Meal kind of places a perspective of whom and when Left Wingers go after what is believed to be government cover-ups or worse – crimes. Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald has wasted millions of dollars over Plamegate. The only indictment Fitzgerald has attained is on Scooter Libby (former Chief of Staff of Vice President Cheney) attacking Libby’s memory of the details of releasing information about CIA hack Valery Plame. Fitzgerald is still pressing Libby even after actual person acknowledged for the press release was Richard Armitage. Armitage is an old school Republican and pro-Arab, thus he is anti-Bush.

Millions of dollars spent on lies by Plame and hubby Wilson, punitively less dollars spent on Berger. Is the Left so in control of the Justice Department?

Berger’s actions have severely placed the validity of the findings of the 9/11 Commission in doubt. The doubt is not in the veracity of the findings, but in the information available to the Commission. If the information is skewed or absent the Commission Report cannot be trusted.

Then there are the Clintons. If Berger was acting on behalf of his former boss, what was he covering up? Was Berger covering up bad or incompetent decisions by the Clintons pertaining to terrorism? Was Berger covering up information that verified reasons for President Bush to attack Saddam’s Iraq and the Left did not want that confirmation to come out to the public?

As Representative Tom Davis has found, Americans may never know the truth behind Berger’s actions nor the motives for those actions. The crimes of the Left continue to go unanswered.
JRH
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Did the 9/11 Commission receive all the documents it requested? Davis Releases Berger Report

By David Marin (202)225-5074
January 9, 2007
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (Republicans)

Washington, D.C. – Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Tom Davis (R-VA) released the following statement today on a committee report that sheds important new light on Sandy Berger’s theft of classified documents from the National Archives. The report makes it clear that the full extent of Mr. Berger’s document removal can never be known, and consequently the Department of Justice could not assure the 9/11 Commission that it received all responsive documents to which Mr. Berger had access.

“My staff’s investigation reveals that President Clinton’s former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger compromised national security much more than originally disclosed,” Davis said. “It is now also clear that Mr. Berger was willing to go to extraordinary lengths to compromise national security, apparently for his own convenience.

“The 9/11 Commission relied on incomplete and misleading information regarding its access to documents Mr. Berger reviewed. No one ever told the Commission that Mr. Berger had access to original documents that he could have taken without detection.

“We now know that Mr. Berger left stolen highly classified documents at a construction site to avoid detection. We know that Mr. Berger insisted on privacy at times to allow him to conceal documents that he stole. One witness with a very high security clearance believed he saw Berger concealing documents in his socks.

“Mr. Berger’s review of documents did not conform to the usual requirements for reviewing classified documents in a secure facility and under strict supervision. The Archives staff’s failure to contact law enforcement immediately and their contacts with Mr. Berger about the missing documents compromised the law enforcement effort.

“The compromised law enforcement effort contributes to reduced confidence that the 9/11 Commission received all the documents it requested. The execution of a search warrant before Mr. Berger knew there was an investigation would have either located additional documents or enhanced confidence that he stole no others than those he admitted to taking.

“The public statements of the former chief of the public integrity section, Noel Hillman, were incomplete and misleading. Because Mr. Berger had access to original documents that he could have taken without detection, we do not know if anything ‘was lost to the public or the process.’

“The Justice Department’s assertion that Mr. Berger’s statements are credible after being caught is misplaced. One wouldn’t rely on the fox to be truthful after being nabbed in the hen house. But the Justice Department apparently did.”

Staff Report- Sandy Berger's Theft of Classified Documents: Unanswered Questions (PDF)

Berger Meal/Deal Scandal
John R. Houk
© January 9, 2007
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Did the 9/11 Commission receive all the documents it requested? Davis Releases Berger Report
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