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| 2004-07-24 |
| From the NY Sun via Instapundit: In August of 2000, Mr. Berger was presented with another possible plan for attacking Mr. bin Laden.This time, the plan would be based on aerial surveillance from a "Predator" drone. Reports the commission: "In the memo's margin,Berger wrote that before considering action, 'I will want more than verified location: we will need, at least, data on pattern of movements to provide some assurance he will remain in place.' " In other words, according to the commission report, Mr. Berger was presented with plans to take action against the threat of Al Qaeda four separate times — Spring 1998, June 1999, December 1999, and August 2000. Each time, Mr. Berger was an obstacle to action. Had he been a little less reluctant to act, a little more open to taking pre-emptive action, maybe the 2,973 killed in the September 11, 2001, attacks would be alive today. It really doesn't matter now what was in the documents from the National Archives that Mr. Berger says he inadvertently misplaced. The evidence in the commission's report yesterday is more than enough to embarrass him thoroughly. |
| Posted by:Mercutio |
| #2 Wait a minute. Feeling "embaressed" is Berger's consequence for bad judgement and endangering our national security and contributing to 9/11. Pardon my unforgiving nature, Sandy,feeling embaressed is tanamount to being given a free pass for NEGLIGENCE of the highest order. Give me a friggin' break. A good lawyer like Sandy Berger would never tolerate gross negligence committed by a physician, for example, so why should this big sack of repeat failures in judgement get off with a red face and a tsk, tsk? I've read on another thread comments about the oh-so great responsibility of being head of our national security and how it's easy to make mistakes even though good intentions are in place. Say what??? What feel good gibberish excuse making. Sandy Berger was no little CIA pencil pusher. He wanted the power without paying any consequences. Berger showed gross negligence while he was NSA and continued poor judgement as well as abuse of trust in the former title he still wore for self-interest re: the recent pilfering of sensitive documents he no longer owned. He should pay with jail time in Leavensworth and George Tenet should occupy an adjoining cell for his "slam dunk" negligence. When are we, the US voters, ever going to demand that these power hungry incompetents be required to pay consequences? |
| Posted by: rex 2004-07-24 10:38:57 PM |
| #1 The evidence in the commission’s report yesterday is more than enough to embarrass him thoroughly. If DemocRATS were only capable of embarassment... |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-07-24 4:10:24 PM |