Shady Burglar Hired By Hillary - Sandy To Be Secretary Of State?
Bill Sammon just reported on Fox News that this is the first step of payback to Sandy for protecting of the Clintons’ legacy by shredding the documents. The final step? According to Sammon, there is talk that Sandy will be Hillary’s pick for Secretary of State. It’s starting to feel a lot like the good old sleazy Clinton days…
Washington Examiner:
WASHINGTON - Sandy Berger, who stole highly classified terrorism documents from the National Archives, destroyed them and lied to investigators, is now an adviser to presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Berger, who was fired from John Kerry’s presidential campaign when the scandal broke in 2004, has assumed a similar role in Clinton’s campaign, even though his security clearance has been suspended until September 2008. This is raising eyebrows even among Clinton’s admirers.
“It shows poor judgment and a lack of regard for Berger’s serious misdeeds,” said law professor Jonathan Adler of Case Western Reserve University, who nonetheless called Clinton “by far the most impressive candidate in the Democratic field.”
Adler told The Examiner that it is “simply incomprehensible to me that a serious contender for the presidency would rely upon him as a key foreign policy advisor.”
He added: “If Senator Clinton becomes the Democratic nominee, at some point she will begin to receive national security briefings that will include sensitive information. At such a point, continuing to keep Berger on board as a key advisor, where he might have access to sensitive material, would be beyond incomprehensible.”
The Clinton campaign declined to comment.
Berger has admitted stealing documents from the National Archives in advance of the 9/11 Commission hearings in 2003. The documents, written by White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, were a “tough review” of the Clinton administration’s shortcomings in dealing with terrorism, Clarke’s lawyer told the Washington Post.
On several occasions, Berger stuffed highly classified documents into his pants and socks before spiriting them out of the Archives building in Washington, according to investigators. On one occasion, upon reaching the street, he hid documents under a construction trailer after checking the windows of the Archives and Justice Department buildings to make sure he was not being watched.
Berger came back later and retrieved the documents, taking them home and cutting them up with scissors. Two days later, he was informed by Archive employees that his removal of documents had been detected.
“Berger panicked because he realized he was caught,” said a report by the National Archives inspector general, which also recounted his initial reaction. “Berger lied.”
Berger also lied to the public, telling reporters he made an “honest mistake” by “inadvertently” taking the documents, which he blamed on his own “sloppiness.” Bill Clinton vouched for the explanation for Berger, who served as his national security adviser.
Berger later conceded: “I was giving a benign explanation for what was not benign.”
The Justice Department initially said Berger stole only copies of classified documents and not originals. But the House Government Reform Committee later revealed that an unsupervised Berger had been given access to classified files of original, uncopied, uninventoried documents on terrorism. Several Archives officials acknowledged that Berger could have stolen any number of items and they “would never know what, if any, original documents were missing.”
At his sentencing in September 2005, Berger was fined $50,000, placed on probation for two years and stripped of his security clearance for three years.
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WTF?
Just another reason why we may have to refresh the tree of liberty sooner than later.
Why was the Bush administration so impotent in the prosecution of this criminal?
October 8th, 2007 at 6:44 amIf you vote for this witch, the corruption will be astounding!
This piece of shit should be in fucking jail for what he did. They say you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep. This confirms my feeling about Hittlery.
October 8th, 2007 at 7:35 amSteve in NC:
The roots of the tree of liberty need to be refreshed by the blood of “patriots”….Berger is no patriot!
October 8th, 2007 at 7:36 am“Patriots and Tyrants” Burglar is an insurgent tool of the tyranical Clinton Crime Family.
Why can’t Burglar be shot?
October 8th, 2007 at 7:58 am“Sandy Berger, who stole highly classified terrorism documents from the National Archives, destroyed them and lied to investigators, is now an adviser to presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.”
Typical. Clintons hiring a criminal to work for them…again.
October 8th, 2007 at 9:14 amWhat he did consitutes TREASON.
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This treason
noun
1. a crime that undermines the offender’s government
2. disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior
3. an act of deliberate betrayal
Got that from dictionary.com
The Burglar should be sitting in a jail cell right now, not making shitloads of money to help hil win.
October 8th, 2007 at 9:23 amNext, Janet Reno will be on board, in charge of security.
Considering who H. Clintons past criminal associates are, I can’t help but wonder if Bergers criminal history is a good thing from her point of view.
Berger stole documents to cover Bill Clintons Ass. Sounds like she would have his testicles in her fist and make him do anything Hillary wants him to do.
October 8th, 2007 at 9:32 amCould this be the beginning of cronyism run amuck?
October 8th, 2007 at 11:13 amA few days ago I stumbled across a Yiddish saying, that automatically brought the whole of the Clinton Crime Family to mind:
Az men darf dem ganef, nemt men em arop fun der t’liye.
(goniff, ganev)
TRANSLATION:
When you need the thief, you take him down from the gallows. [I.e., when you need someone, even if you find him very distasteful, you hold your nose and avail yourself of his services. (Later you can liquidate him.)]
http://mysite.verizon.net/jialpert/Yiddish/Sayings.htm
Yeah …
October 8th, 2007 at 11:19 am@ D.C.
I was not thinking of burlgars blood. It was the blood of those that opposed him and his ilk. I doubt the power will be returned to the citizenry with out confrontation.
October 8th, 2007 at 11:23 am“At his sentencing in September 2005, Berger was fined $50,000, placed on probation for two years and stripped of his security clearance for three years.”
For that reason (above) - I think this whole thing is BS. Hillary couldn’t possibly get this past the American people.
Now that I think about it….
October 8th, 2007 at 12:44 pmBirds of a feather…My old man used to say that you know a man by the company he keeps. Since the Hidabeast is trying to grow a pair, I suppose that applies to her as well.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:31 pmShe may actually grow a pair but I doubt she will actually ever understand how to use them effectively.
October 8th, 2007 at 6:18 pm