Sandy Berger, above, and with Bill Clinton, who formally designated him to "review" the documents
Why does the MSM refuse to make a stink about this? If they do, however, realize the seriousness of this matter and give it loud, widespread, continuing coverage, with extensive commentary and analysis and so on, then I beg pardon.
Imagine if Sandy Berger was President Bush's National Security Advisor and was convicted of theft and destruction of classified documents relating to national security and his boss's actions/non-actions in the fight against Islamic jihad! They'd be calling it Bergergate or something and saying it's even worse than Watergate!
Story here.
A House committee released a report today concluding former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger went to extraordinary lengths to compromise national security and that the Department of Justice could not assure the 9/11 commission that it received the documents it requested.
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"It is now also clear that Mr. Berger was willing to go to extraordinary lengths to compromise national security, apparently for his own convenience,"
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Sensitive drafts of the National Security Council's "Millennium After Action Review" on the Clinton administration's handling of the al-Qaida terror threats in December 1999 suspiciously disappeared after Berger said he intended to "determine if Executive Privilege needed to be exerted prior to documents being provided to the 9/11 commission." Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft testified before the 9-11
commission about the millennium report, urging the panel to ask why the document's warnings and "blueprint" to thwart al-Qaida's plans to target the U.S. were ignored by the Clinton administration and not shared with the incoming Bush security staff.
Don't forget: a Democrat did this! A Democrat! A Democrat! A Democrat!
Damning! Damning! Damning!
I hereby declare this criminal act to be one of high treason against the United States of America.
How dare anyone deliberately steal classified information about national security and destroy it?
Sandy Burglar got off too damn easy!
And the Democrats still believe they have what it takes to protect America from her enemies?
Exactly what was it Berger covered up? Will we ever know?
Is it legal to use sodium pentothal ("truth serum") to get the truth? In cases like this it ought to be!
Full, official report here. (PDF)
