http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005403

AND links via the Blogfather, put stuff in

“AND adding an entirely new layer of intrigue to the story is word that telephone calls made by Berger during those latter two visits may have been monitored by an “unauthorized agency.”

Very nice site!

The whole 9/11 report can be summed up: The US was attacked. It’s not liberalism’s fault! Imagine my surprise.

Everyone else has said pretty much what’s on my mind about the Berger thing. I am so angry. If it was you, or me, or anyone else we know we’d be cooling our heels in an orange jumpsuit not acting indignant that people are asking about our behavior. We’d immediately be thrown in chains, hauled to jail, strip searched, hosed down and locked up til trial – no “out on personal” bail. Then we’d be crushed through the criminal justice system like a grape through a sieve and locked away to be beaten and raped for a few years.

These guys act offended that people even look at them funny. And the media plays right along. We’re told it was an accident. We’re told its an evil Repug leak.

1) This makes far more sense as a Dem leak than a Pub leak. If its a Pub leak it was stupid. It should have been leaked immediately after the Dem convention when they had been strutting around with Berger for a week and were getting their post-convention bounce.

2) These weren’t “copies”. They were original drafts of an after-action review of national security results post-2000 with hand-written notes from high administration officials in the margins. They are forever lost since he destroyed them We’ll never know for sure what they said. They archives are permanently scarred from this critical time period immediately prior to 9-11.

3) Accident my ass. He repeatedly went back to look for different copies of the draft that had been passed around and took them all. If this was an accident why did he only steal copies of this single draft? Was sticking them down his socks and in his pants and accident? Anyone that’s worked in a secure facility knows why he was hiding them in his clothes.

4) The Kerry camp didn’t know? What rot. Clinton admits he knew for months. So berger is under investigation for commiting a fedral crime for months, Clinton knows etc, Berger is a senior advisor to Kerry, but nobody told the Kerry campaign? Uh huh….sure.

I am sick of these people thinking they can flaunt laws that the rest of us would be locked up for violating – then laughing at us on our TVs. It makes me nauseous. I don’t care who did the crime, Ken Lay, Martha Stewart, Berger, Clinton…pick anyone Pub or Dem. Its time for them to pay the same price the rest of us would pay.

Does anyone else wonder if Berger still has his Top-Secret Codeword security clearance even now?

Lock them up. Their fans in the media can interview them in the pokey.

By the way, Trubador, that was an immensely funny parody! I loved it!

Shayne

By the time their convention gets underway this will disappear from the mainscream media. Watch. It’s already fading from many ‘news’ sources.

I fail to understand why Berger is not already facing some serious charges leading to some serious jail time. Anybody else would already be serving time in the cross-fire hotel.

The DNC party line is that the Justice Department held off until this politically advantageous moment. But that makes no sense. There will be better, more damaging opportunities later. Now is the best moment for Democrats to leak this, not Republicans. The Clinton shadow government had their minions briefed and their spin ready.

It makes you wonder how many lives would have been saved if the Clintons had been as dedicated to destroying al-Qaeda as they are to spinning scandals, coordinating lies, and slandering Republicans.

They should stamp documents Top Secret Unless You Think Otherwise and Hey Why Not Top Secret.

But Janet Reno is no longer Attorney General.

Berger was in the Archives by request of Bill Clinton, doing the former president’s bidding. Now he is in trouble and the Clinton shadow government is in a bind. Look for a Webb Hubbell replay: make-believe cooperation and a windfall of Chinese-Indonesian cash for the Berger family.

Here is the excerpt that explains why this is important:

Now crucial drafts of an important report are missing, and no one has reported if exact duplicates–not “copies”–have been found. Unless and until “red-lined” versions of the previous and following drafts are produced and compared to the “missing” drafts, we will never know what vanished from the record in Berger’s pants. Could it have been a reference to Osama’s flight from Sudan, or a warning of airplanes as missiles? No one can know unless some other repository existed for all of the drafts, and only if copies of all handwritten notes exist in that same file. The trouble with widely circulated papers is that principals make handwritten notations on all of them, which are then returned to the central record keeper. Every “copy” is an original if a note has been made in the margin.

I’m not saying that Berger necessarily had any sinister motives for his actions. However, the fact that these documents are apparently lost forever means that critical information that could have explained some unanswered questions about the governments failures leading up to 9/11 is now gone.

Arrrgh. This is all so pathetic.

Where is the decency and honor, let alone civility? Steven den Beste at USS Clueless about The Bush Masterstroke”–granted Bush has a MO of rope-a-doping the Moonbats time and time again. But I want to see some righteous anger and a attitude adjustment of ethical behavior.

I understand that Bush had problems getting traction on Domestic issues due to the “stolen election” rhetoric. But seriously, if absolutely nothing else changes in the next 4 years, I’d be satisfied with tearing down that elevated platform from which the elites conspire to lord it over the common man.

Mr. Bush, the economy is doing fine and will continue to take care of itself. And aside from social security and tort reform, since you are going to win by a landslide (hopefully with generous coattails), this is your Domestic Mandate:

1) Start with any public officials for whom the statutes of limitations haven’t yet expired and “book ‘em, Dano”. If it takes out some of “our own”, so be it.

2)Next fill up all the empty judicial seats by ramrodding serious legal scholars over the objections of sandbaggers–it’s your perogative Mr. Bush, so do it and quit worrying about bi-partisanship. I think Bork could make himself available. No quarter given to attempts to reformat traditional rules and procedures, like the “super-majority” crap for processing appointments. Shortcircuit legislation-by-proxy by making it so that Judges can no longer legislate from the bench and legislators are made to take credit for any legislation they pass/reject.

3)We the People OWN the government, so take it and the documents it generates–excepting security/confidential materials–and put it squarely back in the public domain, catagorized and indexed so the average Joe can find it on the web.

4) Finally return the government to us by using your bully pulpit to call for term limits for all elected officials, so Mr. Smith gets a chance to inject some common sense, and cHillary won’t have a leg to stand on come ‘08.

Ahh rats, who am I kidding…

Anyway, it’s my dream and I can cry if I want to.