Friday, December 22, 2006
Sandy Berger: Lucky He's Not A Republican
"I didn't steal those hamburgers!"
Let me get this right: The EX U.S. National Security Advisor, during his trial admits he "intentionally took and deliberately destroyed classified documents."
Now he claims it was an accident? He was "sloppy"?
From AP News:
"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," said [Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va.]
Inspector General Paul Brachfeld reported that National Archives employees spotted Berger bending down and fiddling with something white around his ankles.
[Berger] 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.
While ABC, CNN, and Fox News all reported that Sandy Berger took documents from the National Archives, hid them, and destroyed them, only viewers of Fox learned that Mr. Berger had taken multiple copies of the same document in an apparent attempt to get rid of all copies of it.
And only viewers of Fox and Friends learned that when the National Archives got the documents back from Mr. Berger, the documents were so unorganized that they aren't sure all pages were returned.
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