What do you think he covered up? Surely you can't believe the nutty professor theory and it was all an innocent mistake. Was it ok because he worked for John Kerry? Hmmmm...?
2007-01-30 05:50:17 · 13 answers · asked by whlydg 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
He should have gone to prison. Instead, this country's traitors insist on continuing to behave as though that bleeding heart Weak Sister did NOTHING. He's on talk shows, his babblings are still published, and the thief is actually taken seriously.
No, he's gotten off virtually scot-free and it's a disgrace!
Ask yourself this: what would the screaming and shouting have been like if it had been a former REPUBLICAN national security advisor stealing documents to help his former REPUBLICAN president keep his BS story straight regarding his failures to protect the country against the people who brought us 9/11?
We'd STILL be hearing about it from the left-wingers and they'd NEVER stop using it against us. We Republicans are just too darned nice for our own good!
2007-01-30 06:05:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
He should have been punished more severely than he was.
if it was all an inadvertant error, why did he stash the documents on a construction site and come back for them later?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/01/sandy_berger_what_did_he_take.html
What was written on those copies that made him want to take them away and dsetroy them?
Bush is a fool for letting him off so easy.
If a Republican did this, the media would be all over it, as they should be.
Instead we're all focusing on Scooter Libby, who is NOT charged with a leak.
Why the silence in the media? Why didn't people know about this? Why did some idiot poster on Yahoo Answers (me!) have to educate you?
Really, this is a double standard. It stinks.
2007-01-30 14:17:36 · answer #2 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He already pled guilty to a misdemeanor and paid a fine.
That's all that should happen to him, because what he took were photocopies, and nothing was taken that wasn't also still there, in the archives.
He, apparently, wanted to use the copies as working documents outside of the archive, and knew he shouldn't, so he destroyed the photocopies (I don't think this is bad, since there shouldn't be copies of classified documents floating around).
His crime is putting his personal convenience over and above strict adherence to rules that are there for a reason.
In terms of damage done, taking photocopies of originals that are still intact, and later tossing them - I'm still waiting to hear why this is some sort of high crime.
He did break the law, pled to it and received his punishment. What should be done has been done. This is much like the Clinton BJ-gate, where the righties want to elevate a nothing event into a crime against humanity.
2007-01-30 14:06:32 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
What part of this do you find hard to understand?
President Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger --- who'd been accused of stealing classified material from the National Archives --- has been cleared of all wrongdoing.
The National Archives and the Justice Department have concluded nothing is missing and nothing in the Clinton administration's record was withheld from the 9-11 Commission.
The Wall Street Journal reports archives staff have accounted for all classified documents Berger looked at.
Late last year they asked investigators to see if the former national security adviser removed materials during his visits.
Berger's lawyers said his client had inadvertently removed several photocopies of reports, but later returned them.
2007-01-30 14:02:13 · answer #4 · answered by Third Uncle 5 · 1⤊ 5⤋
And yet Scooter Libby is on trial. He may have told a few people about Plame, but it weas Robert Novak who told the world. WHEN will he be tried?
Freedom of the press does not grant a license to break the law.
2007-01-30 14:02:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
He was hushing up the blunders of the Clinton administration who has chances to get Bin Laden before 9/11 but wimped out. He should get prison time and a permanent revoking of his security clearance.
2007-01-30 13:59:26 · answer #6 · answered by jeffpsd 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
He should be tried and convicted of treason, perjury, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and anything else that he might have done. After that, they should give him the death penalty and execute him within 30 days like Saddam Hussein.
If the information he destroyed could have prevented 9/11, he, Bill Clinton, and anyone he may have walked by on the way home should be executed. They let that happen! Stupid ******* bastard pigs.
2007-01-30 13:55:03 · answer #7 · answered by ? 2 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Part of his plea deal was to take a lie detector test. Violate his plea deal and make him take the test or sentence him to prison for treason.
2007-01-30 14:02:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
He should have gone to prison just like any other citizen who committed such an act would.
But remember he is a liberal and they play to a different set of rules then the rest of the world.
2007-01-30 13:56:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
He an Kerry and the rest should be in a Fed Prison
2007-01-30 13:54:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 2⤋