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Audacity of Truth
"Change" You Can Believe In:
"Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn't control (the media). They didn’t try. [...] What the hell do they think we are, puppets?"
- Liberal opinion writer Helen Thomas, describing the Obama admin's penchant for heavily scripting public appearances & press conferences - 7/1/09
Sandy Berger is back … as one of Hillary Clinton’s top foreign policy advisors
Yes, the man who got away with destroying key classified documents related to the Clinton administration’s failed counterterrorism policies is now a part of Team Clinton: V.08. Via Richard Miniter (emphasis added):
As many of you know, Clinton’s National Security Advisor Sandy Berger and I no longer get along.
Once a cordial and helpful source, Berger turned on me in January 2002 when the first installment of a Sunday Times (U.K.) series that I co-wrote appeared. He phoned my hotel room at something like 6AM, screaming that I was accusing him of “murdering 3000 people.”
He promised that he was going to ruin and destroy me. I asked him to not forget to perform this vital task. But he proved unreliable and I had to become semi-famous on my own.
Later, the blogosphere renamed him “Sandy Burglar” when he struck a plea deal admitting to stealing and destroying hundreds of pages of classified material stored in the National Archives. He said he needed access to it to prepare his testimony before the 9-11 Commission; it seems equally likely that he wanted to keep it out of the hands of the commission and of future historians and journalists.
My informed sources suggest that what Berger destroyed were copies of the Millennium After-Action Review, a binder-sized report prepared by Richard Clarke in 2000—a year and half before the 9-11 attacks. The review made a series of recommendations for a tougher stance against bin Laden and terrorism. There are 13 or more copies of this report. But only one contains hand-written notes by President Bill Clinton. Apparently, in the margin beside the recommendations, Bill Clinton wrote NO, NO, NO next to many of the tougher policy proposals. [I'm shocked! Not. --ST]
You can see why Clinton might be happy to see these records vanish down the memory hole.
So Berger was stuffing in pants and socks and later shredding the evidence that President Clinton did not want to take a tougher line on bin Laden, following the 1998 attack on two U.S. embassies that killed 224 people (including 12 American diplomats).
Now for the Hillary connection…
So what does the Democratic front-runner and former First Lady do?
She makes Berger one of her top three foreign policy advisers.
What I wanna know is where in the hell are the howls of outrage over the fact that Hillary Clinton has hired on someone who compromised classified documents in the name of protecting his fanny, not to mention his bosses’?
I don’t even have to remind everyone of the drawn out, overblown drama that was pLamegate, in which Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, and many other admnistration officials were vilified by the usual suspects over the belief that they purposely outed a ‘covert agent’ as revenge against her husband, using information that was supposedly to remain classified. The impression one got from reading what the far left wrote about pLamegate was that they would have only been satisfied with a public flogging – of the literal variety.
I’m checking out the blogger reactions to this news at Memeorandum, and I don’t see one lefty blog condemning Hillary’s decision to hire this criminal as one of her top foreign policy advisors. No, I’m not surprised, but all the same, it’s just one more example of the left’s blatant hypocrisy on issues related to national security. They’ll scream all day long that the administraton is guilty of “hiding” things from the American people, and of misusing classified information against political enemies, yet when one of their own – the top contender for the Dem nomination for president as of this writing – brings on staff a convicted criminal who not only stuffed classified documents down his pants, but hid some of them underneath a nearby construction trailer, what do you hear?
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Silence.
Beldar is justifiably livid, and has a lengthy post expressing his disgust here.
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So Hillary really is different than Bill!!!! Bill hired people that committed crimes during his administration. Hillary is avoiding the middle man and hiring people already convicted of crimes.
Gosh, how much better we would be under her.
- So where is the surprise in either seeing the quid pro quo payback to Burgers efforts to cover Clintons ass by stealing, and destroying, the incriminating WOT/Bin Ladin memos, or the Lefts selective outrage that is all but non-existent if its anything bad about their beloved cult hero’s?
- They have become so predictable, even Al Qaeda’s speech writers are using their stuff.
- BBH –
So what will he have in his pants for Hillary….
errrr…that sounded bad.
So what will he shove down his pants for HIllary…
Hmm, no matter where he shoves things for Hillary, it just sounds so wrong…….
Waterboard Berger!
Is that a classified document in your pants or are you just glad to see me?
Waterboard Berger!
It just seems to me that there’s more to this. Senatrix Clinton has plenty of money, and could bring on board anyone she wanted. With the Norman Hsu scandal breaking and broadening, you’d think that the last thing she’d want to do is bring aboard someone with Mr
Burglar’sBerger’s record? It’s an unnecessary distraction, at the very least, and calls attention to the Clinton’s playing fast and loose with the law.There is a large group of people out there who will simply never vote for Mrs Clinton; I’m guessing that people who read Sister Toldjah would be counted among them!
With her high negatives, Mrs Clinton simply can’t throw away voters who are possibly reachable for her, but the Norman Hsu and now Sandy Berger incidents are just going to remind people of Whitewater and Johnny Chung and Charlie Trie. Why do this?
Hope the other leftie candidates use this op to jump on her on this, but they don’t have the guts so we’ll just have to do it for them.
These people have stopped amazing me with the things they do and get away with the the help of the msm, spittin chrissie matthews and keith olbernut.
This latest news on hill’s pick needs to be top of our headlines — talk it to death, like the dimwit dems have done what they say is the
war for oil and 9/11 inside job thing, give em a big dose of their own stinky bad tasting medicine.
I hear the distant echo of this “individual” blah blah blahing about “the most ethical adminstration ever”.
Well we know she lied to us then, and look the leopard hasn’t changed her spots!!! She continues to associate herself with criminals and traitors. Dear Lord this country will be go to hell like a speeding bullet if this idiot ever gets into power. – Lorica
Waterboarding is too good for this traitor, just shoot him and be done with it. – Lorica
Ahh yes…
sprinkling the water can of evolutionary dew upon the culture of corruption.
If Hillary’s campaign is in possesion of stolen ponzi scheme money, she should find the rightful owners of the money(the victims of the ponzi scheme) and give it back to them. she shouldn’t donating it to charity as it’s not hers to give.
It’s not so much the hypocrisy that angers me (and it does) as much as the fact that Hillary knows that our “non-liberal” MSM will let her get away with it.
That’s what drives me up the wall…the sure confidence that there will not be outraged editorials and talks of Berger’s records cleansing and silence being rewarded by the Clintons.