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Berger Steps Down As Kerry Adviser
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former national security adviser Sandy Berger, the subject of a criminal investigation over the disappearance of terrorism documents into his socks, stepped aside on Tuesday as an informal adviser to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. "Mr. Berger does not want any issue surrounding the 9/11 commission to be used for partisan purposes. With that in mind he has decided to ask that the report not be released until after the election step aside as an informal adviser to the Kerry campaign until this matter is resolved," said Lanny Breuer, Berger's mouthpiece after getting permission from consiglieri in chief Bruce Lindsay attorney. The investigation had threatened to become a political problem for Kerry a week before his nominating convention in Boston in which he hopes to persuade voters that he is ready to be commander in chief. But now it won't. In fact, the New York Times will not carry this story The cornerstone of Kerry's argument against Bush is that he used faulty intelligence and poor judgment in waging war against Iraq.
And so Kerry is going to replace Berger with Joe Wilson?
Berger, former President Clinton's national security adviser, is under criminal investigation by the Justice Department after highly classified terrorism documents disappeared while he was reviewing what should be turned over to the Sept. 11 commission.
Note use of passive voice. It was just those pesky documents who disappeared. Berger had nothing to do with initiating any action. Sort of like how the Rose Law Firm billing records "appeared" in the White House.
Berger's home and office were searched earlier this year by FBI agents armed with warrants after the former Clinton adviser Archives personnel saw Berger taking documents from the Archives' secure facility voluntarily returned some sensitive documents to the National Archives and admitted he also removed handwritten notes he had made while reviewing the sensitive documents. However, some drafts of a sensitive after-action report on the Clinton administration's handling of al-Qaida terror threats during the December 1999 millennium celebration are still missing, officials and lawyers told The Associated Press.
Posted by: Mr. Davis 2004-07-20 |
