Politics
He’s back: Sandy Berger now advising Hillary Clinton

Bill Sammon, The Examiner
2007-10-08 07:00:00.0
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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.

You misspelled the name.

It's Sandy BURGLAR, not Berger.

I blame the Alberto Gonzales US Justice dept. for this one. Maybe even Mr. "New Tone " President Bush. Sandy Burglar should have been charged with a huge felony instead of the misdemeanor. Disgusting, shocking, shameful.

Everyone better watch their important documents.

Of course he is!  She is giving the crook a job for his outstanding service to his country Dear Leader!

Who here is surprised?  Not me...not at all.  The entire Clinton team is crooked.  They are a "family" for sure.

... It's all good.

"Give that winch just enough rope to ..."

Berger, Burglar, or Bugger aside elect Hillary and you get a "two-fer" you also get the Oval Office Monica pie hole poker....Yuk !!!

Quoted: Of course he is!  She is giving the crook a job for his outstanding service to his country Dear Leader! Who here is surprised?  Not me...not at all.  The entire Clinton team is crooked.  They are a "family" for sure.

Bingo!

You didn’t think it would change did you she’ll have all of her old cronies on board if she gets elected and there will be “accidental” deaths as well. Hillary and all her bunch are crooks they make Nixon look good! She had 8 years now she wants more and she will do anything to get elected.

Sandy " The Cleaner " Berger

She doesn't need Berger's advise .... she's already knows how to lie, cheat and, steal.

Quoted: She doesn't need Berger's advise .... she's already knows how to lie, cheat and, steal.

This is all very true, now she has a willing 'Patsy' to do her dirty work.  No worries about getting caught, hell she'd pardon him anyway.

HUBRIS

Hopefully she has a fatal case.

That is a massive chink in her armor.

He just wants to be on the team with money

Merry Christmas Republican National Convention! Lord, what a gift, if only someone over there knows what to do with it.

And the media won't even make a peep...

Quoted: Merry Christmas Republican National Convention! Lord, what a gift, if only someone over there knows what to do with it.

"I think it’s a bad move," said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. He is not the kind of adviser that you would want surrounding a candidate for president of the United States. I think it’s a bad decision." Link

* As much as I can hope this is the nail in the coffin for her campaign, the unfortunate reality is that most people aren't paying attention and are ignorant of politics and sadly this probably won't have the negative impact most of us would like to see. *

As predicted, MSM is ignoring this story.

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