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Home Front: Politix
Berger Steps Down As Kerry Adviser
2004-07-20
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

#5  Not sure, but considering the "successes" of sKerry campaign, I can almost perceive a whiff of the scent of hildebeast somewhere behind the scenes.

The other possibility is that the incompetence of sKerry & Co itself is profound, which can't be refuted either.
Posted by: Memesis   2004-09-22 6:09:36 PM  

#4  Maybe the Kerry campaign's not totally incompetent after all. If he were to go hard right on the war he could still pull this out. Here's his Hail Mary:

1) do a sister souljah on Mikey Boy-- very public and very nasty

2) announce that Holbrooke, reasonably hawkish pro's pro, will be his Secy State

3) castigatge Bush for not accelerating the war and taking Fallujah. Announce that he Kerry would ratchet it up and crush the opposition in short order, as a prelude to rolling elections and a real transfer of power on schedule.

As I say, a Hail Mary pass, but there's no way Kerry can win by trying to straddle normal, hawkish Dems and the Mikey/Kos/DU crowd. Pick one or the other, and fast, and then go balls out.
Posted by: lex   2004-09-22 5:58:10 PM  

#3  Capt., I love Sponge Sandy Stuff Pants far more than even Sandy Burglar!
Posted by: Jen   2004-07-20 10:20:50 PM  

#2  I smell a fishy Richard Clarke in this mix somewhere. Part of what Sponge Sandy Stuff Pants is missing is Year 2000 counterterrorist after matter review material written by Clarke.....hmmm
Posted by: Capt America   2004-07-20 10:15:03 PM  

#1  Too bad, Inspector Clouseau brought an aura of confidence to the Glow Boys.
Posted by: RWV   2004-07-20 10:09:39 PM  

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