This guy. Joseph Wilson. Kerry's showing real foreign policy judgment, all right.

Well well well...waddya know...still ANOTHER Clinton Administration official on the wrong side of the law. And isn't it convenient that he "accidentally" discarded some of those documents...

"When I was informed by the Archives that there were documents missing, I immediately returned everything I had except for a few document that I apparently had accidentally discarded," he said.

I'm gettin' pretty sick of the Clinton Mafia. Here I thought I had "moved on" and now this. It's OUTRAGEOUS that a former National Security Advisor would "inadvertently" take documents of this nature. Mr. Berger, that's MY property you are stealing. The property of MY COUNTRY...the official ARCHIVES of MY COUNTRY Mr. Berger. OUTRAGEOUS! If you have a SHRED of decency you will submit yourself to the charges that SHOULD be brought against you. sigh...but alas...you will feign ignorance, buy up a bunch of lawyers, and waste MY COUNTRY'S WEALTH to fight this thing.

...before I get banned I will bow out, if I haven't crossed the line already...no apologies though.

Berger is also a lawyer. There is no way he did not know that this was wrong.

Can you imagine the outrage if Condoleeza Rice had absconded with documents?

This deserves to be part of a criminal probe. If this is part of a coverup to make the Clinton administration look better -- and let me state for the record that I grant that this has not been proven -- then there is no punishment fitting for this.

DWC-

PROVED??? He admitted taking these documents and trashing some of them "accidentally"!!!! I'm all for the "innocent until proven guilty" thing but this man has confessed his guilt and therefore his utter incompetence. I remember Liddy saying Berger was a Trade Lawyer and knew NOTHING of National Security concerns aside from what he watched on the news. I thought at the time that this was Liddy doing what he does best. Now? Well, it's not the first Gordon has proven himself correct.

I guess Shifty Sandy was so confident Kerry will win, he assumed he could get a pardon -- like John Deutch.

Wayne,

We know he took the documents, which is criminal, given that they were a) classified, and b) he knew it, and c) he admitted it.

We dso not know his motive. I was speaking hypothetically when I suggested he may have taken and destroyed documents to benefit the Clinton administration. He may have had a different motive -- a personal one. He may have said something stupid in a meeting like "Remind me again who the hell these Al Qaeda guys are" and wanted the record of it expunged.

We do not need proof that he took the documents --he admitted as much. We do need proof of his motive in order to know what to charge him with.

DWC-

Alright alright...the sound voice of reason overcomes the harsh voice of....disgust. ;) So we find out his motive...then hang him? ;)

I'll bring the rope.

:-)

He's getting "probed"? And the guys at Abu Grhaib thougth they had it tough?

I say we put him through the naked spanking machine and find out what he knows!

Whoever leaked the fact that Sandy Berger stole classified documents - and whoever leaked the fact that non-CIA-employee Joe Wilson got an all-expenses-paid trip to Niger because his wife got it for him - are both whistle-blowers.

Whistle-blowers are typically protected by federal and state laws because, as a policy matter, we as a society want to encourage the public airing of official wrongdoing. We certainly do not want wrongdoing to go unreported due to fear of attacks on the reporting party.

I'm glad someone had the good sense to let the public know that John Kerry's foreign policy advisor Sandy Berger was - almost unbelievably - walking out of a federal archives building with top secret documents stuffed down his pants. The public has a compelling right to know about egregious breaches of law like this by public officials.

It is especially important that Berger's illegal conduct be exposed just so we could hear his clearly disingenious response. When was the last time you "accidently" stuffed documents down your pants?

The fact that Berger is a liar and a criminal is now clear - making it incumbent on those who associate with him, like Presidential candidate John Kerry and former President Bill Clinton - to disavow Berger's criminal actions, and his mendacious excuses, or be deemed unfit themselves for public office.

Similarly, I'm glad someone had the good sense to let the public know that gadfly Bush-hater Joe Wilson was chosen by the CIA to go on the vital national security trip to Niger - rather than an actual CIA agent with experience in weapons sales - due to his wife's - Valerie Plame's - nepotism. The public has a compelling right to know about egregious examples of nepotism and favoritism like this by public officials.

I'm sure we will all note today - and over the next several weeks - that Democrats and liberals only like whistle-blowers when it's misconduct by Republicans that's being uncovered.

He might have been Clinton's advisor but right now he's Kerry's advisor. Take off the gloves.

Does anyone remember what he "lost"?

Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (Click here should you choose to sign out.)

As you post your comment, please mind our simple comment policy: we welcome all perspectives, but require that comments be both civil and respectful. We also ask that you avoid the extensive use of profanity, racist terms (neither of which we consider civil or respectful), and other boorish language.

We reserve the right to delete any comment, and to prohibit you from commenting on this site, if we feel you have broached this policy. As a courtesy, we will first send you an email noting a violation so you understand the boundaries. This will occur only once, however, and should we ban you from our comment forums we expect that ban to be permanent.

We also will frown upon those who suggest that we ban other individuals for voicing unpopular opinions, should those opinions be voiced in a civil and respectful manner. The point of our comment threads is to provide a forum for spirited though civil and respectful discourse … it is not to provide a forum in which everyone will agree with your point of view.

If you can live by these rules, welcome aboard. If not, then we’re sorry it didn’t work out, and thanks for visiting The Command Post.

URL:
Remember me? YesNo

Comments: