Sandy Berger: If the slacks don’t fit, you must admit!
Former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Burglar, er, Berger, has pleaded guilty to stealing classified documents from the National Archives prior to his testimony before the 9/11 Commission.
An honest mistake he called it. They all do.
ABC News was kind enough to run the headline, “Berger to Plead Guilty to Taking Materials”. Not classified materials, just materials. Paper clips, stamps, pens…what materials? Jeeez.
You remember Sandy Berger. He was the Clinton point man on that mysterious organization that seemingly mushroomed into an international menace overnight.
Washington Post, Feb. 20, 1998, Mary McGrory, “Amid the Monica uproar, a call to arms.”
According to George Magazine, “[Clinton] went to the extraordinary length of assigning his national security advisor, Sandy Berger, to be the administration’s Scientology point man.” Berger even briefed Travolta as would a senior senator, George reports.
Travolta was part of Clinton’s efforts to soften his portrayal in the film. Travolta went to Washington to promote Scientology just before Primary Colors began filming, reported George. Travolta told the magazine, “The next day, I met with Clinton. He told me: “Your program sounds great. More than that, I’d really love to help you with your issue over in Germany with Scientology.” I was waiting for the seduction that I had heard so much about. I thought, “Well, how could he ever seduce me? And after we talked, I thought, Bingo! He did it. Scientology is the one issue that really matters to me.”
Hollywood pretty much has the run of the Clinton White House, even we have learned lately, the National Security Council. National security adviser Sandy Berger parlayed with actor John Travolta on the matter of the Germans being less beastly to the Church of Scientology, of which John Travolta is a member. The Germans say that Scientology is not a religion but a cult, a position that was long held by our government. Time magazine called Scientology “a hugely profitable global racket that survives by intimidating members and critics in a Mafia-like manner” Embarrassed, overworked White House spinners explain that Clinton is a bear for religious freedom. They are shocked that anyone would think there was any quid pro quo in the equation, even if Travolta plays Clinton in a forthcoming movie, Primary Colors….” (Hat tip: FactNet.org)
The blog No Caliban has been asking the right questions,
I am much more curious to learn whether the appropriate government entities are
going to review his fitness for further access to classified material.I am not suggesting that Berger misused any information as chairman of Stonebridge, a senior adviser to Lehman Brothers or the law firm of Hogan & Hartson. But in Washington, knowledge is power, and secret knowledge is great power. With no access to secrets, Sandy Berger could be out of business.
October 10th, 2005 at 7:22 am
[...] Clinton, of course, denied and personally ducked this question and sent out Sandy Burglar of all people to defend him. How ironic that a man recently busted for stealing classified documents from the National Archives, was sent out to defend Clinton on national security. Here is what the admitted thief and probation violator had to say, “The president strongly raised the need for Saudi officials to cooperate with us on the investigation into the attack on Khobar Towers at the time when the FBI was attempting to gain access to the suspects. The president did not raise in any fashion the issue of his library.” [...]
January 19th, 2006 at 10:39 am
Intersting post. I stumbled upon your blog whilst doing a search on msn for something completely different, but I am glad I have found it and I have spent the past 30 mins reading previous posts.
Keep up the good work and best of luck with your blog.
Wayne.
September 9th, 2006 at 8:08 am
[...] Sandy Burglar (If the slacks don’t fit, you just admit) knows something about yanking it, after all it was he who yanked highly classified national security documents from the National Archives, by stuffing them down his pants, taking them home and then destroying them, all the while claiming it was an inadvertent mistake. Sandy Berger has tons of credibility on this topic. About as much as Paris Hilton doing a public service announcement for humility and abstinence. This whole episode is tailor made for the blogosphere. On the left, righteous indignation that their boy Bubba would even have his legacy questioned. Don’t we understand that the 1990’s was an era of peace and prosperity? [...]