Wednesday, July 21, 2004

The Dirty Baker's Dozen (13) - Berg(l)erizing Secrets

Well, well, if we thought that once the Clintonista Administration left office that we'd seen the last of pilfered classified materials, we were sorely wrong.  Apparently, former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger (aka 'the Sand Burglar') gathered up highly classified anti-terror documents and stuffed them in his shirt and pants while reviewing material at the National Archives in advance of his 9/11 Commission testimony.

Eyewitnesses at the Archives reported him to the FBI.  When the FBI inquired, Berger realized his error and returned some of the missing documents.  Conveniently, however, he claims he "apparently had accidentally discarded" the missing documents in question.  He attributed his gross mishandling of these materials to being sloppy.

This guy is talking out of both sides of his mouth!  The Sand Burglar in 2002 flatly denied during sworn congressional testimony that the government of Sudan had ever offered to turn over Osama bin Laden to Bill Clinton.  The Congress, being Congress, didn't press him on the details. During an radio interview a few months later with Steve Malzberg, he was grilled him on Clinton's February 2002 admission that the Sudanese offer was indeed real. 

The Sand Burglar backpedalled.  "I've seen [Clinton's] quote and I think at the time there was some examination of whether or not he could be held here if, in fact, we had an opportunity to get him. And the judgment was that we didn't have any basis to hold him here at that time."

"The Sudanese never offered to give him to the United States," he insisted. "This is something I've gone back to check very carefully on. No one knows of any such offer."

Liar, liar, liar!  The Clintonistas think (as Michael Moore has proclaimed overseas) that the American people are stupid.  While a good portion of the country spent the Clinton years in a liberal stupor, the Clintonistas made a mockery of our country through the incessant lies and deceptions.  If all that effort could have been harnessed and directed at the terrorists with the same zeal that it was used to abuse power, there would be no terrorists today.

The radio interviewer even asked why the Clinton administration didn't press Sudan to release bin Laden to the U.S. after Saudi Arabia rejected a plan to have him sent there.  The Sand Burglar apparently got defensive and said,  "The Sudanese ... had no intention of turning bin Laden over to someone who would have been hostile, period."

If that knucklehead's obfuscations weren't enough, former U.S. President Bill Clinton says he questions the timing of allegations his former security adviser mishandled classified documents.

Clinton claims he has known about the federal probe of the Sand Burglar's actions for several months, calling this week's news a "non-story."  Leave it to Bill to trivialize anything to do with our national security.

"We were all laughing about it on the way over here," Clinton said of the publicity. "People who don't know him might find it hard to believe, but ... all of us who've been in his office have always found him buried beneath papers." 

In Bill's world, timing is everything.  He indicated that he would like to know who leaked the probe to the media.  Clinton went on to point out the story broke just a week before the Democratic National Convention begins in Boston.

And the timing of the release of Bill's book, "My Lies," wasn't questionable?  Maybe if the Sand Burglar checked his autographed copy of "My Lies," he find that he used the classified documents as bookmarks.  Seems so hard to believe in reality but in the world of the Clintonista, there is no reality that they can't fabricate.  Maybe it's not so far-fetched afterall.   They're probably dizzy from all all of their spinning.

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