12.22.2006

Berger is Fried

The next time anyone says anything about crime in the Republican Party...
Honestly, Only a Democrat could have gotten off so easy.
Berger pleaded guilty to unlawfully removing and retaining classified documents. He was fined $50,000, ordered to perform 100 hours of community service and was barred from access to classified material for three years.
...I love this next part. It got to the point that they gave him speciall attention because of earlier episodes!.
The notes said Berger had not been aware that Archives staff had been tracking the documents he was provided because of earlier suspicions from previous visits that he was removing materials. Also, the employees had made copies of some documents.
And finally, from Patterico's, Mr Clinton's classic reaction just after Mr Berger's "mistake,
As long as Patterico is talking about the Sandy Berger scandal, I think readers should be reminded of Bill Clinton’s reaction to the charges:
“We were all laughing about it on the way over here. People who don’t know [Sandy] might find it hard to believe. But … all of us who’ve been in his office have always found him buried beneath papers.”

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