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Berger Will Plead Guilty To Taking Classified Paper

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Posted by Steve 2005-04-01 8:51:56 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sandy, baby. Are those top secret documents stuffed down your pants or are you just glad to see me?

Posted by tu3031 2005-04-01 9:59:08 AM|| 2005-04-01 9:59:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 cool - I figured he'd get away with it, even as outrageous as his behavior was. Glad to see him convicted.

Posted by Frank G 2005-04-01 10:06:57 AM|| 2005-04-01 10:06:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The creep got off far too easy. Great job DOJ!

Posted by Tkat 2005-04-01 10:31:49 AM|| 2005-04-01 10:31:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I wonder, what will be Berger's "punishment"?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-04-01 10:40:49 AM|| 2005-04-01 10:40:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 If Martha Stewart gets 6 months for doing nothing illegal, I hope he spends a year at leavenworth for stealing state secrets. I'd love to see him do the perp walk into the paddy wagon.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-04-01 10:53:46 AM|| 2005-04-01 10:53:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 In six months, Berger will be back on TV. He will be described as "Clinton's NSA" and no mention will be made of his guilt. Anyone "tasteless" enough to bring it up will be called a "McCarthyite" and given a stern lecture to "move on".

In 2008, Berger's "suspension" will expire. He will be on the short list of candidates to be in a Democrat administration. Any mention of his crime will be met with screeches about "witch hunts", "fascism", and even sterner lectures to "move on". We'll all get to hear about how the US is the land of forgiveness and how people who have made mistakes should be given another chance.

Meanwhile, the press will never ask anyone, anywhere, anytime, just what the hell Berger was covering up, who he was protecting, and why he's gotten off so easily. No one will look into the political affiliation of the DOJ lawyers who acted so "professionally" in giving Berger a hummer instead of throwing the book at him. No one will ever wonder if, maybe, what he did wasn't just the mishandling of documents but out-and-out treason.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2005-04-01 2:20:17 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-04-01 2:20:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 The AP version of this story in the local paper ommits any mention of hand-written notes or the fact that 3 of the 5 copies got the scissors treatment.

Posted by SteveS 2005-04-01 4:30:38 PM|| 2005-04-01 4:30:38 PM|| Front Page Top

Posted by Frank G 2005-04-01 5:51:32 PM|| 2005-04-01 5:51:32 PM|| Front Page Top

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