Berger case - cleared of all charges?

Last Friday, I read in the Wall Street Journal that Berger had been cleared of all charges - but I can't find ANYTHING else about it anywhere... help!

...now, watch this drive,
Tut-tut

All I could find was a reprint of a WSJ article - and this is a back-door link.

http://www.kyw1060.com/news_archives_detail.cfm?newsitemid=39459

A kind DUer, Dac_76, was able to provide me with this video link from Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

http://www.canofun.com/blog/videos/SandyBergerCleared.wmv

I find it really strange that no other references can be found - and that the original link to the story cited above doesn't work any longer. I smell Karl Rove's handiwork. BTW, I don't know whether the original story at the WSJ is still there; a subscription is required, and I'm not gonna spring for one just to verify one story.

berger cleared -- back page in little teeny tiny print.

like Putin's New Russia and Bush*s New Amerika.

Much more subtle than the old hamfisted Commie/Nazi way.

While Pres. Clinton explained how plausible Berger's account is, he didn't actually state that he had been cleared of charges, which I was expecting to hear. He just said that there were copies of all of the missing documents and that the documents pertained to "something we did good," the foiling of the millenium bomb plot, so Berger had no motive to take the documents in an attempt to hide them, and he verified that Berger is a somewhat disorganized person.

I would think if Berger had been officially cleared, that either Dave wouldn't have brought it up or Pres. Clinton would have stated such. :shrug:

I also was surprised that Clinton did not come out and say that Berger had been exonerated. Wonder if he hadn't heard yet. It didn't exactly get very good press.

misskittycat

:hi:

Hallo? Anybody home??? :freak:

Ya don't say.

this and added something like (paraphrasing) "Tom DeLay still has not apologized for calling Mr. Berger a common burglar..."

Would love to read it.

OLBERMANN: And there was one more development today on the broad front of terror, terror investigations and the 9/11 Commission.

It appears that former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger has been cleared of taking original classified documents accidentally or intentionally out of the National Archives. Last week, only days before the 9/11 Commission was due to report, somebody leaked the fact that Berger was the focus of a criminal investigation for having taken documents from those archives. One version had him stuffing them into his socks, the implication, he was trying to withhold information from the 9/11 Commission.

The timing of the leak suspicious because the infraction of it allegedly occurred last October. “The Wall Street Journal” reporting today that the National Archives has told the paper it is—quote—“confident that there aren‘t any original documents missing in this case.” Berger reviewed only photocopies. He admitted to taking some of them inadvertently, but insisted he had returned them. And officials have accounted for all originals to which he had access.

No apology from House Majority Tom DeLay, who, evoking Watergate, had called the episode a—quote—“third-rate burglary.”

Friday, July 30 transcript
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5578119/

A smear campaign used to indict someone for something.
As they say you can indict a cheese sandwich.
Now all they need to do is "leak" news of an "investigation".

...now, watch this drive,
Tut-tut

From salon.com "War Room"

full article (you may need to scroll down the page): http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html



Last Friday the Wall Street Journal uncovered some actual news and shot down a key flank of the Republican talking points on the Berger controversy. The paper reported that National Archive officials looking into the Berger affair had determined "no original materials are missing and nothing Mr. Berger reviewed was withheld from the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks." The Journal report continued, "Daniel Marcus, general counsel of the 9/11 Commission, said the panel had been assured twice by the Justice Department that no originals were missing and that all of the material Mr. Berger had access to had been turned over to the commission. 'We are told that the Justice Department is satisfied that we've seen everything that the archives saw,' and 'nothing was missing,' he said."

The Department of Justice is still investigating the fact that Berger breached policy by removing copies of a classified "after-action report" that he had ordered to study the Clinton administration's handling of terrorist threats at the time of the millennium. Berger, who admitted the removal and returned some copies after being contacted by government officials, has said it was unintentional.

But if you think the press rushed in to follow-up the Journal's report about Berger being cleared by the 9/11 commission, guess again; the press' subsequent silence has been deafening. "Ever since they invented ink and paper, charges have got more space than the truth," says Joe Lockhart, the former Clinton press secretary who has been acting as Berger's spokesman. "Am I disappointed more people haven't picked this up? Yes. Am I surprised? Absolutely not." Not one major newspaper, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, or Washington Post, has reported on the Journal's 9/11 commission findings. And in the four days since the Journal report, CNN has aired just 6 very brief mentions of the development. None of CNN's reports lasted more than 60 seconds, and none involved CNN interviewing experts to get their take on the news. Stitched together the six mentions totaled maybe four minutes of TV time. Compare that to two weeks ago when the Berger story was first leaked and CNN aired more than 40 in-depth segments, covering hours and hours of airtime.

Then again, CNN's six mentions is five more than the NBC/MSNBC/CNBC news team has managed to date. That, compared to the 22 Berger segments it ran. Fox News has not reported the Journal's finding, despite the fact it ran more than a dozen Berger stories/segments two weeks ago.

-- Eric Boehlert

every time he is proven right.

Oh well, you know what they say about people who tell the truth.

not clearing him, not charging him, just leaving the public with the impression that wrongdoing occurred. This is the usual and customary m.o. of the Bushwipe gang.