And the reason I ask is because just where has been that 'ol MSM (that's mainstream media) regarding the new[er] revelations about Sandy Berger -- y'know, President Clinton's national security advisor? Not nearly as vociferous and long-winded as the Plame "scandal," now, are they? I agree with Jay Nordlinger:
I think that, if Sandy Berger were a conservative Republican, the story of his misdeeds would be a really, really big deal. Do you know about his misdeeds? If Berger were a Republican, the word "Nixonian" would be making a big, big comeback — at a minimum.
I mean, come on -- what would Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermoonbat, Katie Couric and Jack Cafferty be saying about this (my emphasis):
President Clinton's national security adviser removed classified documents from the National Archives, hid them under a construction trailer and later tried to find the trash collector to retrieve them, the agency's internal watchdog said Wednesday."There is absolutely no way to determine if Berger swiped any of these original documents. Consequently, there is no way to ever know if the 9/11 Commission received all required materials," [Virginia Rep. Tom] Davis said.
Berger took a break to go outside without an escort while it was dark. He had taken four documents in his pockets.
"He headed toward a construction area. ... Mr. Berger looked up and down the street, up into the windows of the Archives and the DOJ (Department of Justice), and did not see anyone," the interview notes said.
He then slid the documents under a construction trailer, according to the inspector general. Berger acknowledged that he later retrieved the documents from the construction area and returned with them to his office.
"He was aware of the risk he was taking," the inspector general's notes said. Berger then returned to the Archives building without fearing the documents would slip out of his pockets or that staff would notice that his pockets were bulging.
The notes said that Berger had "destroyed, cut into small pieces, three of the four documents. These were put in the trash."
After the trash had been picked up, Berger "tried to find the trash collector but had no luck," the notes said.
(Speaking of Chris Matthews, as I do final edits on this post "Hardball" is on the TV. It's halfway over and what has Matthews covered? The Joe Wilson -- Val Plame's hubby -- attorney flap [surprise!!] followed by the Iraq War followed by presidential picks in 2008. No mention of Berger after 35 minutes. I rest my case with him.)
The fact is we'll never know now just what was in the documents despite Berger's (his attorney's, actually) contention that the 9/11 Comission got all the documents it requested. Did the Clinton administration flub up dealing with Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda more than is generally known? This makes Clinton's blow-up at Fox News' Chris Wallace and the former administration's complaints about that ABC miniseries quite laughable.
More here.
Locally, Maria Evans has more at the Talk of Delmarva.
(Above image courtesy Michelle Malkin.)
Now that serial lying sack of sh!t Joe Wilson won't testify at Scooter Libby's trial because the author of Politics of Truth doesn't want to be questioned under oath?
Chris Matthews and KeithOlbermoonbat are craven cowardly liars too, and so is Jimmy Carter, Billy Jeff [under oath] and Sandy Burglar.
The Dems live to lie.
Posted by: daveinboca at December 21, 2006 09:27 PMWhat you're implying then, is that there is some sort of unwillingness by the mainstream media to cover scandals involving President Clinton? That is a truly, truly unique perspective! Ya don't get that kind of precious, balls-out insight just anywhere. My compliments.
Posted by: colleague at December 21, 2006 11:02 PMwhy wasn't the Traitor berger HANGED?
Posted by: steamboat willy at December 22, 2006 01:12 AMBerger says he hid them under a construction trailer only to come back later to retrieve them. Does this make sense? If he successfully exited the building with the items in question, why leave them? This sounds more like a dead drop for someone else who picked up the documents. Berger and his laywers figured it was better to cop to destroying the documents than admit he gave them to someone else, possibly a foreign agent.
This whole thing stinks.
Posted by: Duffy at December 22, 2006 07:55 AMI think the whole thing stinks. First Berger received deferential treatment from the National Arcives staff, who should have called the FBI right away. If that had been done then this entire plot would be clearer today and Bergers inent and others possibly involved would have been uncovered.
The WSJ opines that those of us that see conspiracy in this are delusional. The Prosecutor from the DOJ Public Integrity section assures us that nothing was purged in order to keep it from the 9/11 commission. Anybody got ammo to blunt now Judge Noel Hillman's quotes here:
http://www.answers.com/topic/sandy-berger
Posted by: Fred Gregory at December 22, 2006 10:08 AMAnd the esteemed Mr. Burglar was a member of the Iraq Study Group. I think he dodged a felony conviction only because he was one of the Beltway elites.
Posted by: AJ Lynch at December 22, 2006 11:44 AMIn a completely unrelated story, Sandy Berger was stopped by the Ocean City Police, who smelled secret documents on his breath, but they did not arrest him because he said the Arkansas Highway Patrol would come and pick him up. A spokesman for the OCPD, when questioned by the media regarding the traffic stop, embarassedly revealed that the original police report could not be found, but that in its place was a cryptic note which read, "Oops, sloppy me! -S.B."
Posted by: G Rex at December 22, 2006 02:43 PM