Donald Sensing has good comments on Sandy Burglar:
I have almost 20 years experience working with classified documents and worked full-time inside classified vaults (actually, fully secure office areas) in two different assignments.
It is not possible to "inadvertently" take a document home under the conditions Berger is reported to have been granted access to them: no briefcases allowed, each document serial numbered and inventoried, records annotated as to who was granted access and when, etc.
And, so reports go, Berger stuffed notes he made from the documents into his pants. NB: that means the notes were just as secret as the source documents.
This excuse is so ludicrous that I hardly know how to respond. But consider: Berger has no choice except to claim stupidity and incompetence rather than admit deliberate theft. So his defense is, "Yes, I, the national security advisor to the former president of the United States, centrally responsible for the guarding of the lives of our citizens from foreign threats, am in fact a blundering, absent-minded idiot."
So how can he or other Clinton-administration officials defend their counter-terrorism actions and policies when the NSA himself is so self-confessedly stupid? Why should we have any confidence at all the the former administration knew what it was doing when the NSC was headed by such a forgetful inept?
Update: Heh, "Not even elected president yet and already Kerry is facing in infamous question: "what did you know and when did you know it?" Also, InstaPundit has been covering this pretty heavily recently, so lots more info can be had there.
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
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Which is patently ludicrous.
The fact that Sandy Berger carried copies, and they were copies not origionals, out in his suit pocket has nothing to do with the Clinton anti-terrorism strategy. (A strategy laid out very well in Against All Enemies by the way.)
Sidenote: Clinton's side went as far as having CentCom draw up battle plans to invade Iran when it was discovered that Iran was sponsoring terror against the US. The State department went and told the Iranian's that the game was over if they didn't back down, Iran did and in a hurry too. :End Sidenote
Rice and Cheney didn't know what to do or where to go after the Towers were hit, other people had to shuffle them off to the east wing bunker, does that make them incompent boobs too or is it just the Dilbert principal at work? The higher you climb the less oxygen, the less chance of intellegent life.