Berger is in trouble for giving gov't secrets to a US Senator?

Hamlette

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Tue Jul-20-04 10:10 PM
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Berger is in trouble for giving gov't secrets to a US Senator?

That seems to be the "worst case scenario" playing out on the news.

What's wrong with me that I don't see this as a big deal?

Shouldn't Senators have access to secret information? If not, how do we expect them to make decisions about legislation?

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Journeyman

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Tue Jul-20-04 10:16 PM
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1. Not everyone with a top secret clearance. . .

has proper clearance for all top secret information. I once held a Top Secret EBI clearance, yet the range of information I was privy to was quite limited. Secrets are divulged only to those properly cleared and with a "need to know."

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whistle

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Tue Jul-20-04 10:18 PM
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2. Which U.S. Senator is that?

...This is such a non-issue.

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Hamlette

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Wed Jul-21-04 12:25 AM
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5. Kerry

I'm hearing they are freaked because Berger gave the info to Kerry. The docs he took out were copies so how could there be a cover-up? We still have the originals.

How can Bush complain that Kerry got info from Berger about a report that Berger wrote about something that happened in 2000?

this IS a non issue? At least Gergen is honest and getting some air time.

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Senior citizen

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Tue Jul-20-04 11:50 PM
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3. The State Department believes that

the people that we, the so-called informed electorate, elect to represent us, shouldn't know what is going on, because if they did, they might actually tell us.

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HootieMcBoob

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Wed Jul-21-04 12:04 AM
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4. So, I guess Bush's buddy Chalabi giving secret codes to Iran

is no biggie. Gee, how long did that one last? The media grew tired of that one before it even got off the ground! God those people make me sick.

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shraby

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Wed Jul-21-04 12:33 AM
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6. There is a transcript of

Wolf Blitzer interviewing Berger's attorney here.

<http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0407/20/wbr.01.html>

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