Sandy Berger's "honest mistake"

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<a target="_blank" href=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,126397,00.html>Sandy Berger (search)
said he made "an honest mistake" but Republicans aren't completely buying that
explanation.</a>

This particular line gets me;
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But the GOP says the whole snafu raises questions about whether Berger
tried to hide embarrassing materials, since he was reportedly seen stuffing
documents down his pants, shirt and in his socks.

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He didn't have a notebook? I can't believe the number of people that aren't
finding this whole thing suspicious, they're spinning the issue totally to the timing
of the leak, as opposed to the actual situation itself. Now whether timing was
used as a political tool or not is certainly a question, but while many
conservatives have been completely ignoring this question-- the liberals are
obsessing over it, ignoring what they should be equally as worried about.

Clinton has come out and noted that 'Berger has always been sloppy', in fact,
this use of the word "sloppy" is becoming strangely repetitive. ....Clinton even
laughed about it-- as to think a high official in his administration could be "sloppy"
with top secret documents, and it could be humorous!

I think there are a lot of questions that need to be answered here, but the liberals
are making it seem like nobody has a right to ask them. I think answers to these
questions is more than acceptable here.

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> hmm...this feels very backroomish to me

erm... it was most certainly meant for the backroom. That'd be great if a mod could please move it for me
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> > hmm...this feels very backroomish to me
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> erm... it was most certainly meant for the backroom. That'd
> be great if a mod could please move it for me

Done <img src=smilies/magbiggrin.gif>

On topic, I don't know if Berger had nefarious intent or not. However, there's no excuse for "accidentally" removing classified documents.

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> erm... it was most certainly meant for the backroom.

"Honest mistake." <img src=smilies/magbiggrin.gif>

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> I think there are a lot of questions that need to be
> answered here, but the liberals
> are making it seem like nobody has a right to ask them.

Okay Danoz, you got a war in Iraq full of casualties. There are reports that the newly installed "leader" is personally executing people. You have no Weapons of Mass Destruction. No Nukes, no biological weapons, no nothing.

You have your militairy violating the Geneva convention and torturing people. You have terrorists multiplying much faster than rabbits. YOu have people held as "enemy combatants" with no rights. This against your own constitution in prisons.

Your leaders have cut taxes and gone to war. In doing so they have turned a cash surplus into record deficits.

Hmm, what else. There are groups of scientists upset with your glorious leaders for making politics part of science.

You have a person whose boss threaten to fire him if he told the true cost of Bush's drug plan to congress. Where is the boss now? He is a lobbiest for the drug firms.

You have the awarding of a multibillion dollar untendered contract to Halliburton. The vice president just happens to be the former CEO.

Your worried about missing papers????????? I am sorry, this whole issue stinks of GOP misdirection from their record. The only reason this issue is present is so that the Kerry campaign can be tainted with scandal.

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> Sandy Berger (search)
> said he made "an honest mistake" but Republicans aren't
> completely buying that
> explanation.

Since you love FoxNews so much....I think its time for a THREAD JACK!

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(Yeah yeah yeah...I know, this has nothing to do with anything, but I still found it interesting, if not a bit funny)

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Let me begin by saying that pointing out that this post is fairly hypocritical. You accuse Republicans of misdirection, but this entire post is an entire distraction from the issue at hand-- a total misdirection. You're telling me that people can't and shouldn't ask questions because there's other things to worry about? Let me tell you, there are always things to worry about... and I'd consider a fumbling of documents that could possibly pose a threat to our national security something to worry about-- especially at a time when we're fighting this war on terrorism.
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Okay Danoz, you got a war in Iraq full of casualties.

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Redundant. This is war, and in any and every war there are casualties.
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There are reports that the newly installed "leader" is personally executing people.

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What reports?
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You have no Weapons of Mass Destruction. No Nukes, no biological weapons, no nothing.

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You have significant evidence of a WMD program, and a regime that had a possibly of developing nuclear technology... not to mention many illegal, undeclared weapons. This is in response to your "no nothing" comment, as if we marched in looking for nukes and found candyland. This simply isn't the case.

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You have your militairy violating the Geneva convention and torturing people. You have terrorists multiplying much faster than rabbits. YOu have people held as "enemy combatants" with no rights. This against your own constitution in prisons. Your leaders have cut taxes and gone to war. In doing so they have turned a cash surplus into record deficits.

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Our Military hasn't tortured anyone. Let's also remember that in order to control something as broad as terrorism, people need to be "held". We cut taxes before anybody saw a war coming-- and it's safe to say the economy is on the rise now.

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Hmm, what else. There are groups of scientists upset with your glorious leaders for making politics part of science. You have a person whose boss threaten to fire him if he told the true cost of Bush's drug plan to congress. Where is the boss now? He is a lobbiest for the drug firms. You have the awarding of a multibillion dollar untendered contract to Halliburton. The vice president just happens to be the former CEO.
Your worried about missing papers????????? I am sorry, this whole issue stinks of GOP misdirection from their record. The only reason this issue is present is so that the Kerry campaign can be tainted with scandal.

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The irony! The hypocrisy! This whole post existed to shift the direction! I wanted to talk about Berger, and instead you make me respond to a load of quick, unrelated sentences with no connect at all. Now, instead of branching off into the fifteen other subjects you mentioned in this post (and getting off track this early in the game)-- let's try to stay with the subject matter. The only thing you did was call it "GOP misdirection" without reasoning.
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Okay, I will give you an analogy. In importance, these "fumbled" documents are as important as worrying about a scratch in your 9 year old banged up beater of a car when your jobless and are going to be evicted the next day from your home.

Danoz, questions do need to be asked, but the RIGHT questions need to be asked. You got a CIA that fucked up royally. The 9/11 commission will report on the administration conviently after the election. You have people dying in a war that is breeding more terrorism. You have North Korea with nukes. You have pakistan selling nuke making material to terroist states.

I am not misdirecting you. Do not spin it as such. The reality is the Berger issue is a leak. Reports state that both the Justice and Administration have known about the investigation for quite some time. Is is just pure coincidence that it is leaked so close to election time?

There are much bigger more important issues at hand than a non issue about a few classified documents missing and a person who by all news reports is cooperating with the Justice Department to get them back.

Your country is in flames Danoz. (I know, a little melodramatic)

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Okay, I will give you an analogy. In importance, these "fumbled" documents are as important as worrying about a scratch in your 9 year old banged up beater of a car when your jobless and are going to be evicted the next day from your home.

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How do you know that the documents are no need for concern? If it was important enough that this man would put his entire job and respect on the line (let alone stuff the documents down his pants!) I think there is something extremely suspicious about this. You're saying they aren't important, but this is pure speculation.

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Danoz, questions do need to be asked, but the RIGHT questions need to be asked. You got a CIA that fucked up royally. The 9/11 commission will report on the administration conviently after the election. You have people dying in a war that is breeding more terrorism. You have North Korea with nukes. You have pakistan selling nuke making material to terroist states.

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What do these things have to do with Berger! That's the issue I'm talking about, the questions I'm referring to are ones regarding that. Intelligence is something the commission has seriously looked into-- and as for the report on the President, even the commission has stated that the president never lied-- only believed the intelligence he was given.

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I am not misdirecting you. Do not spin it as such.

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What spin?! You're talking about North Korea and the CIA in a thread about Berger and documents. There is a clear misdirection here, how can you call this spin?
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The reality is the Berger issue is a leak. Reports state that both the Justice and Administration have known about the investigation for quite some time. Is is just pure coincidence that it is leaked so close to election time?

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You can talk about the timing all you want, there's always something near ANY big breaking story that cause people to consider it intelligent placement. Hell, when president Bush went to Iraq people said that he only went to dwarf Hilary Clinton's visit! I'm not saying that the timing isn't an issue, I'm saying that all you (and others) want to do is talk about timing, completely ignoring Berger and the documents. Honestly, I find top secret documents in pants more suspicious than the timing of the break.

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There are much bigger more important issues at hand than a non issue about a few classified documents missing and a person who by all news reports is cooperating with the Justice Department to get them back.

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Wouldn't you if you got caught? I think there are questions that need answered about the subject

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Your country is in flames Danoz. (I know, a little melodramatic)

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You do realize that you're telling people to ignore this because other problems exist. When somebody commits murder you don't say, "Forget about him, there's terrorists out there!"

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> You do realize that you're telling people to ignore this
> because other problems exist. When somebody commits murder
> you don't say, "Forget about him, there's terrorists out
> there!"

Wow...murder is now equated to stealing classified documents.

Lets get one thing straight right now....what Berger did was wrong, and nothing can change that. He got caught, he is and has been investigated, he's cooperating. Why is it more of an issue than this? He stole something, and got busted, and is being dealt with....can we move on Righty? I can't speculate as to what problems this may have caused b/c I dont know what was no those papers, but you'd think that after this long of a time, and it gets leaked right now is just stupid. Yes the people have a right to know what has happened, but if you are serious about it, DO IT WHEN IT HAPPENS, not waiting forever to time it. Its unfortunate that the Democrats dont have any secret damaging info that will hurt the president....oh wait, all that SHIT just got released by the commission.

But focusing on topic....was Berger wrong...YES. Was it wrong to give such a bullshit excuse....YES. At least he's making an effort to correct his shady actions....which is more than can be said for ANYONE in the Bush administration. Everyone in government is a lying sack of shit....its just the degree to which of a liar they are and how many people get hurt and/or fucked over from their actions. I don't mean to be one sided here....but the Republicans (especially the WH Admn) is winning in the lying resulting in fucking people over category over the last four years.....and based on their track record, I don't think it would behove the American people to repeat this trend any further. Berger's a douche bag....and whatever went down will probably be figured out, and more likely than not, it'll be nothing like the smoking gun the Republicans are hoping for....like Saddam giving an handy to Clinton while getting a rim job from Monica.

Make a deal about it....but not a big deal. Take appropriate action against these thefts of classified documents, and move on. The Republicans are wrong for blowing this out of proportion, and the Democrats are wrong for trying to dismiss it as nothing important. End of story.


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Wow...murder is now equated to stealing classified documents.

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I didn't equate anything, I compared scenarios to make a point.
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Lets get one thing straight right now....what Berger did was wrong, and nothing can change that. He got caught, he is and has been investigated, he's cooperating. Why is it more of an issue than this? He stole something, and got busted, and is being dealt with....can we move on Righty? I can't speculate as to what problems this may have caused b/c I dont know what was no those papers, but you'd think that after this long of a time, and it gets leaked right now is just stupid. Yes the people have a right to know what has happened, but if you are serious about it, DO IT WHEN IT HAPPENS, not waiting forever to time it.

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We don't even know who leaked the story or how it leaked. And the story just broke, and we just started asking the questions... why are you already urging those in protest to move on?
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Its unfortunate that the Democrats dont have any secret damaging info that will hurt the president....oh wait, all that SHIT just got released by the commission.

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The commission did an excellent job. Did you even read the report?

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But focusing on topic....was Berger wrong...YES. Was it wrong to give such a bullshit excuse....YES. At least he's making an effort to correct his shady actions....which is more than can be said for ANYONE in the Bush administration. Everyone in government is a lying sack of shit....its just the degree to which of a liar they are and how many people get hurt and/or fucked over from their actions. I don't mean to be one sided here....but the Republicans (especially the WH Admn) is winning in the lying resulting in fucking people over category over the last four years.....and based on their track record, I don't think it would behove the American people to repeat this trend any further.

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As the commission has stated, the administration hasn't lied. I really think a lot of people owe apologies about this, but we won't get them.
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Berger's a douche bag....and whatever went down will probably be figured out, and more likely than not, it'll be nothing like the smoking gun the Republicans are hoping for....like Saddam giving an handy to Clinton while getting a rim job from Monica.

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Republicans certainly aren't "hoping" for a smoking gun, here... we just want to know the truth while others try to push this aside-- dismissing that action as "sloppy". If this IS nothing, I'll be relieved.

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Make a deal about it....but not a big deal.

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I'm not, I'm just saying that the questions should be answered.
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Take appropriate action against these thefts of classified documents, and move on. The Republicans are wrong for blowing this out of proportion, and the Democrats are wrong for trying to dismiss it as nothing important. End of story.

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Well, it's certainly not the "end of story", and to say it is is to "dismiss it as nothing important".


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> I didn't equate anything, I compared scenarios to make a
> point.

Eh....shaky, but I'll give that one to you.

> We don't even know who leaked the story or how it leaked.
> And the story just broke, and we just started asking the
> questions... why are you already urging those in protest to
> move on?

I'm not asking the investigators to move on about it....all im saying is people need to get over it....like everything else in politics, everyone is more concerned about making each other bad, rather than solving problems. The people it concerns, and the people investigating SHOULD pay very close attention to this and take it very seriously. But as for now, until some answers are ascertained, people need to get over it being such a "scandalous" event. It's not scandalous....its fucking stupid....why would someone do that? I hope they find out why, and give us an answer as to why it happened, and THEN I can be upset or not.


> The commission did an excellent job. Did you even read the
> report?

Yeah, downloaded it yesterday.

> As the commission has stated, the administration hasn't
> lied. I really think a lot of people owe apologies about
> this, but we won't get them.

Oh yeah...that's right. It was all the intelligence community's fault. So much for fact checking <img src=smilies/upeyes.gif>
I'm not going to apologize to the White House for calling them liars when all they're doing is passing the buck. From my persepctive, even if they didn't think they were lying...they still were. They should've known whether or not what they were saying was true or not....rather than taking the CIA's word for it. Ignorance has never been an excuse, and I'm not going to allow it to be one now. (But here in lies another argument as to whether or not the WH should have to check facts since its the intelligence community's responsibility to get good intel...in either case, I don't absolve the WH from guilt).

> Republicans certainly aren't "hoping" for a smoking gun,
> here... we just want to know the truth while others try to
> push this aside-- dismissing that action as "sloppy". If
> this IS nothing, I'll be relieved.

I want to know the truth as much as everyone else...but like I said...BOTH sides are blowing this out of proportion.

> In reply to:Make a deal about it....but not a big deal.
> I'm not, I'm just saying that the questions should be
> answered.

Yes, yes they should.

> In reply to:Take appropriate action against these thefts of
> classified documents, and move on. The Republicans are wrong
> for blowing this out of proportion, and the Democrats are
> wrong for trying to dismiss it as nothing important. End of
> story.

> Well, it's certainly not the "end of story", and to say it
> is is to "dismiss it as nothing important".

I disagree....'end of story' means that we as a people dont need to speculate at this point. We can criticize his actions, but we can't scream about coverups, timing, and political motives. Let the investigators do there thing, and get back to us. 'End of story' means get the answers and THEN talk about it.



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Wow.....more on FoxNews

Sure some of it is probably out of context....but still funny as hell.

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Oh yeah...that's right. It was all the intelligence community's fault. So much for fact checking
I'm not going to apologize to the White House for calling them liars when all they're doing is passing the buck. From my persepctive, even if they didn't think they were lying...they still were. They should've known whether or not what they were saying was true or not....rather than taking the CIA's word for it. Ignorance has never been an excuse, and I'm not going to allow it to be one now. (But here in lies another argument as to whether or not the WH should have to check facts since its the intelligence community's responsibility to get good intel...in either case, I don't absolve the WH from guilt).

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First of all, it wasn't only the US intelligence that came to the same conclusions (also remember, the same intelligence came to the same conclusions under previous administrations). You're also forgetting something very important here-- when Bush spoke about WMD, he spoke in the name of those who gave him the information. Come now, when the white house needs to do "fact checking", who do you think does it? Our intelligence. The same source that Kerry and Clinton trusted when they made claims regarding WMD in Iraq.

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> First of all, it wasn't only the US intelligence that came
> to the same conclusions (also remember, the same
> intelligence came to the same conclusions under previous
> administrations). You're also forgetting something very
> important here-- when Bush spoke about WMD, he spoke in the
> name of those who gave him the information.


You're missing my final point here....just becuase they got bad info doesn't absolve them from guilt. Like I said in the previous posts, ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law....and damn, the Bush adminstration broke quite a few internatinoal laws resulting in uncessary loss of life. The "I didnt' know" excuse never has, and will not, apply here. "The buck stops here"....yes, right up at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. does the buck stop. He made a bad decision based on bad intel, and he should be held responsible for it as well those who provided the bad intel.

But the thing is, the Adminsinistration has, and never will be apologetic for their immoral and illegal actions in the internatinoal community. They maintain that what they did was "necessary" to thwart "evil", when that wasn't even their inital excuse to begin with. They got bad intel about WMD, invaded a sovreign nation that had never attacked and/or killed US citizens, killed thousands of Iraqi's and approaching a thousand american soldiers, and rather than saying "oops, sorry about that, we fucked up" they shifted their focus and said it was to "liberate" the Iraqi people from a dictator in the name of the safety of the American and international community. Well...ok, is Saddam gone? Yep. Are those people better off? Depends on who you ask. Are we any safer from Saddam....uhhh, well seeing as we weren't a target to begin with, and now he's in custody, I guess we are "safer" but safer than what really. Now that Saddam's gone and the Iraqi people are "free", does that make us any safer? Hell no. And that was, and is the maintained reason for being there...when the 9/11 commission has completely disprooved that any threat or connection to Al Quada existed.

So, what do we have now? A shit of a mess in Iraq that, now in the light of the commission's finding's, had no bearing at all on anything which the intelligence community and the whitehouse said, no one is saying "oops, sorry". I think that Bush owes the people of this country, and for that matter, the people of this world that he has ignorantly and mistakenly put into more danger that previously existed. If Bush did that....I would have a hell of a lot more respect for him and might even consider quite giving him so much shit for what he did. If you make a mistake, you apologize for it and try to fix it. He's done neither...just maintained the "threat" and tries to fix the boondoggle that exists in Iraq without trying to solve problems, but rather fix the results of the problems.....gee, that sounds familair....just like American society. But Bush will never apologize....why? Because he's had alterior motives from the beginning, and therefore isn't the least bit sorry for trying to get his buddies more money, and protecting the Saudi interestes in America.


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