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| Kerry Praises Bergler |
| 2004-07-21 |
| NY Times softpedals the scandel (no surprize) ...Samuel R. Berger, the former national security adviser to President Bill Clinton, resigned abruptly Tuesday as a senior adviser to John Kerry's presidential campaign after the disclosure that he had improperly removed classified material on terrorism from a secure government reading room last year. ... Sandy Berger is my friend, and he has tirelessly served this nation with honor and distinction," Mr. Kerry said Tuesday in a statement. "I respect his decision to step aside as an adviser to the campaign until this matter is resolved objectively and fairly. [note the opening where they can criticize any resolution as not objective or not fair]" .... Some Democrats suggested on Tuesday that the episode could severely hurt his chances of becoming secretary of state or taking another cabinet position in a Kerry administration... [you think] |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #19 Here's a very mysteriouso "developing" byline in red lettering on Drudge today: Archives Employees Suspicious of Berger... devised coding system, marked documents they knew Berger was interested in canvassing, watched him carefully... employees determined draft and all versions of 'millennium memo' had disappeared from files after Berger viewed them, WASH POST set to report, say sources... Developing... |
| Posted by: rex 2004-07-21 11:40:17 PM |
| #18 Maybe he was ashamed because he knocked over his chocolate shake thus defacing a stack of code-word documents. I recommend that cup-holders be installed in teh reading room as he seems to have had the problem on multiple visits. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-07-21 10:36:02 PM |
| #17 "OOps, yes, I inadvertently stuffed these highly sensitive documents in my underwear. I don't know how it happened. Purely an accident, believe me. Could happen to anyone." |
| Posted by: Asedwich 2004-07-21 10:24:54 PM |
| #16 That Bergler is Sponge Sandy Stuff Pants... |
| Posted by: Capt America 2004-07-21 9:52:28 PM |
| #15 You rich folks ever think that maybe Mr. Sandy got holes in his shoes thanks to the Reagan Bushitler tax cuts? It's hard on the streets these days. |
| Posted by: CooReen 2004-07-21 2:52:17 PM |
| #14 Of course he praises him, traitors should stick together. Berger -> Traitor -> Death by Flamethrower (No more wussy shots) Treason is punishable by death. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2004-07-21 2:45:37 PM |
| #13 Was listening to Glenn Beck in the car. Evidently, the 2nd trip was made because it was discovered taht he had missed a copy of the document he was trying to eliminate. Evidently, Richard Clark put something in his draft post-op report on OKC that was worth stealing twice. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-07-21 2:27:38 PM |
| #12 What really concerns me is what if he wasn't taking this stuff for political reasons, but rather that he is being paid to do so by some foreign entity. For me the political dimension is nowhere as serious as the security breach. I hope the FBI is crawling up Bergers ass and performing full forensic analysis of his personal finances and phone records. |
| Posted by: spiffo 2004-07-21 2:23:09 PM |
| #11 18 USC Section (f), Senator Kerry. |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-07-21 2:20:28 PM |
| #10 would be a detriment to our security if clinton era bureacrats have the reigns of power again... having them on skerry's team is a plus for the repubs...but then again there are quite a few americans who have fallen into the 'ignorance is bliss' trap, only time will tell. |
| Posted by: Dan 2004-07-21 1:58:33 PM |
| #9 Could be Sandy Burger too, as in a Wendy's triple. Biggie Size, natch... Oh, at the Corner they note Lanny Davis' hand in this. He wrote a book on how to best disclose bad news: Thus, Davis called the reporter he deemed most fair, the AP's John Solomon, with documents suggesting that Clinton had made fund-raising calls from the White House residence. The leak occurred on July 3, 1997, so the story would get lost on the Fourth of July holiday. |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-07-21 1:44:53 PM |
| #8 Remote, Yes. That's a good point. An even better time for a leak would be in just before the election - like the dems breaking the GWB driving ticket story in 2000. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-07-21 1:42:00 PM |
| #7 Wouldn't it have been better for a Repub to leak when Berglar is up on the dias in Boston slapping carry on the back? Much greater damage potential then. This seems to be a Dem leak. |
| Posted by: remote man 2004-07-21 1:39:06 PM |
| #6 The Dem strategy is, so far, 1. deny the 'paper in the socks point', 2. pretend its all a big misunderstanding and 3. say the timing of the leak was a Republican dirty trick. Not a bad strategy. The problem is the first two seem to be breaking down already. Archive officials did see paper in the socks and it looks like he Berger was a buglar on more than one occasion and was selective in what he took. What if the 3rd point breaks down also and it was a dem operative (say a rival in the Kerry camp) who spilled? |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-07-21 1:23:03 PM |
| #5 Ditto LOL on the Bergler: superb riff on the name. Who's the leaker? One person I read last night (can't remember where) suggests that it's Bill Clinton of all people -- just clearing a path for the Hildebeast in 2008. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-07-21 11:08:47 AM |
| #4 thanks moustoo I'm hoping the non d'affaire is picked up by the blogosphere. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-07-21 10:47:57 AM |
| #3 Bergler....lol! |
| Posted by: Anonymoustoo 2004-07-21 10:34:18 AM |
| #2 Some Dems are thinking a fellow Dem leaked this in order to get it out of the way before the real election campaign. This makes sense. If Berger was still kerry's senior foreign policy adviser in late Oct and the story got out then, it would probably shave 3-5% from the Kerry total. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-07-21 9:44:22 AM |
| #1 The most shocking thing about the Bergler story is that Kerry was actually using this guy as a foreign policy advisor. After the foreign policy disaster called the Clinton Administration, I would have expected that Kerry would at least steer clear of those Clinton losers. |
| Posted by: virginian 2004-07-21 9:22:36 AM |