Sunday, April 1, 2007

A Pox Upon America!







"JUST HITTING ANOTHER
BRICK WALL"





There is a Pox

upon America!



Hey folks, we have a very serious problem going on and that problem is affecting both political parties and it could have some very major repercussions for the people of United States.





This problem involves a major theft and a massive cover-up by both the Democrats and the Bush Administrations Justice Department. No, I am not talking about the eight U.S. attorneys who were fired. The situation I am talking about is far bigger and far more serious, yet the Democrats and the Bush administration have placed such a tight lid on it, that we, the American people may NEVER know the truth.

Here is the situation: Democrat and former Clinton national security advisor Sandy Berger escaped meaningful punishment for a crime he committed during a wartime Republican administration.

On two separate occasions, in September and October 2003, Sandy Berger took a total of five copies of a classified report from the National Archives. The document, an “after-action memo” written by Richard Clarke about the failed plot to blow up the Los Angeles International Airport during December 1999, otherwise known as "the Millennium plot." Berger destroyed three copies by cutting them up with scissors. Berger returned the two copies he kept after being contacted by the Archives, where staff had been monitoring an unusual pattern of activity during Berger’s visits and (the Washington Post reports one source as saying) had “specially coded the papers to more easily tell whether some disappeared” after noting some had previously gone missing.

The Clarke report was one of the items examined by the federal government’s 9/11 Commission. It was learned by Fox News that that the report was “critical of how the Clinton administration handled Al Qaeda threats to the U.S. homeland and that the missing report made security recommendations that were never implemented.”

Berger also removed notes he himself wrote during his Archive visits. Under Archive rules, notes taken about classified materials must remain at the archives, but can be used during return visits. Removing notes is apparently not a crime under law, however.

The FBI began investigating Berger in October 2003 and executed search warrants at his home and office in Northwest Washington in January 2004. The Associated Press first reported in July 2004 that the Justice Department was investigating Berger, and the disclosure prompted Berger to step down as a senior foreign policy advisor to the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.

On April 1st 2005 Berger entered a guilty plea to a charge of “unauthorized removal and retention of classified material” - a criminal act classed as a misdemeanor and which carries a maximum penalty of a $100,000 fine and one year in prison followed by a year of supervised release. But under a plea agreement he struck with the Justice Department, Berger would serve no jail time but pay a $10,000 fine, surrender his security clearance for three years and cooperate with investigators. Berger also signed an agreement, as part of the plea agreement, to submit to a lie detector test (to date, the Bush Justice Department has refused to administer the test, WHY?).

After the plea deal was announced, the NY Post reported that the probe “seems to have shifted to whether Clinton appointees at the Archives tried to cover for Berger. Archives chief John Carlin, a Clinton appointee, was bounced soon after the incident. It's a violation of law to take classified documents, so Archives staffers should have called the FBI when they saw Berger do it — instead, they called Clinton's Mr. Fix-it, lawyer Bruce Lindsey."

The Berger plea bargain deal was announced by Noel Hillman, Chief of the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section and prosecutor of the Berger case. But since then, Hillman has been on a public relations campaign regarding the Berger plea deal, nearly outdoing Berger’s own lawyer and friends in playing down the extent and importance of Berger’s actions:


- "With his guilty plea today, Mr. Berger acknowledged that as a former high-ranking government official he understood the rules and regulations,"


- "His conduct was intentional and what he did was wrong. He has taken criminal responsibility."


- "There is no evidence that he intended to destroy originals," said Mr. Hillman. "There is no evidence that he did destroy originals. We have objectively and affirmatively confirmed that the contents of all the five documents at issue exist today and were made available to the 9/11 Commission." (Are any of these statements true? Why is it that every time high ranking Democrats are charged with a crime, it is always the same thing; “There is NO evidence....”).

- "(Berger) did not have an intent to hide any of the content of the documents" or conceal facts from the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. (Said by Hillman to U.S. Magistrate Robinson in defense of the plea deal.) "Nothing was lost to the public or the process," Hillman said’ (How can we accept any of this?).

- "It's reasonable to conclude that disposal (cutting up the documents) was a better alternative than sneaking them back (into the archive)," (What a crock of bull!)

It was reported in the Washington Post that Hillman defended the plea deal to the Magistrate by saying that Justice Department lawyers concluded Berger took the documents merely for personal convenience - to prepare for his and President Clinton's testimony before the Sept. 11 Commission - and not to hide any embarrassing evidence. Hillman also told the judge that the top Clinton official only had copies of the documents - not the originals - and so he was not charged with the more serious crime of destroying documents. (What! You took his word for this? You people are either totally incompetent or you are hiding something).

Consider the omission and red herring hidden in Hillman’s explanation that Berger didn’t cut up originals so he wasn’t charged with “destroying documents.” Hillman embellishes this by explaining that Berger “did not have an intent to hide any of the content of the documents" or conceal facts from the 9/11 commission. “Nothing was lost to the public or the process," repeats Hillman. (Oh yeah!)

Whether or not a copy in the National Archives can be a “document,” the fact remains that Berger was not charged with theft. Instead, the Justice Department apparently picked a minor charge and then “negotiated” the lightest penalty it could get away with – leaving many to wonder if this is just a case of the federal government looking after one of its own.

What does all this show? The Democrats have proven they know how to reward and destroy. If the Democrats regain the presidency in 2008, Hillman & co. need not fear retaliation and can look forward to their next steps up the ladder. Republicans, the Justice Department knows, will at a minimum do nothing to harm them until that happy day.

If you think this unlikely, let me remind you that after the Berger investigation became public, “Hillary announced, without being asked, that Sandy had just helped brief her for a February speech at the annual Munich Conference on Security Policy — sending the adviser a signal that he was still part of the family, even though the grand jury was investigating him.” In Washington, that’s the equivalent of a horse head in the bed. Remarkably, the plea bargain granted Berger by the Justice Department allows him to regain his security clearance by 2008, just in time to support Hillary’s presidential campaign and perhaps accept a post in a victorious Clinton administration. (Can we afford to allow this to happen?)

In the long run, the Justice Department’s durable contribution was to lower the standard of culpable criminality for Washington's careerists. Just as Bill Clinton established that irresponsibility is praiseworthy if it’s good entertainment.

The questions that we NEED to have answered are:



Why did Sandy Berger risk severe jail time to steal the documents in the first place?


What documents did he steal and why? Who was he protecting?


Who was behind these thefts? Who ordered him to do it?


How deeply is Bill and Hillary Clinton involved?


Why is the Bush administration Justice Department refusing to administer the lie detector examination to Berger, per his plea agreement and why did they allow him to get off so easy?


What exactly is being hidden from the American people? And don’t tell us that information is classified due to national security because that is crock.


Why didn’t the F.B.I or the Justice Department notify the 911 Commission that Berger was under investigation for the thefts, before he testified before the commission?


No matter what political party you may belong to, we must join together in demanding that OUR government get to the bottom of this whole affair, and we should and MUST demand that Hillary Clinton WITHDRAW from the 2008 presidential nomination until we get truthful answers as to her and her husbands involvement into all of this.

We do have a RIGHT to know what exactly is going on and who is involved. We have a RIGHT to DEMAND that all those involved be brought to justice. We should NOT settle for the excuse, “There is NO evidence…!” This excuse is wearing too thin. There is evidence but it is being covered up and we are getting tired of it.


We must swamp the House and the Senate with phone calls, emails and faxes, demanding that a proper and full investigation of the Sandy Berger affair and that the people be told the TRUTH. After all, Pelosi promised that she and the Democrats would put an end to the corruption in government. Now it is time to hold her feet to the fire and live up to her promise. ENOUGH OF THIS BUSINESS AS USUAL and covering up major crimes involving high ranking government figures, NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE! What ever is being covered up could have very serious consequences for the American people, and yet no one in government seems to be the least bit interested in getting to the truth.


If those in charge refuse to do the job that they have been elected or appointed to do, then WE THE PEOPLE have the right and the duty to bring this government down, and that means the entire Justice Department and BOTH Houses of Congress and replace them with people who WILL represent and look out for the citizens of the United States instead of their selfish self-interests.


Click here for Ann Coulter’s take on this.





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