This is not good - new Berg Info.

[meisje]

Archives Employees Suspicious of Berger... devised coding system, marked documents they knew Berger was interested in canvassing, watched him carefully... employees determined draft and all versions of 'millennium memo' had disappeared from files after Berger viewed them, WASH POST set to report, say sources... Developing...

[LittleApple81]

1. Where did you get this from? n/t

[digno dave]

3. that would be none other than drudge

[apsuman]

26. Yeah, Drudge posting infro from that right wing rag the Washington Post...

The link is to the Washington Post.

Byline:
By John F. Harris and Susan Schmidt
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, July 22, 2004; Page A06

[BurtWorm]

29. Susan Schmidt and Drudge go waaaaay back

to the Starr days.

[buycitgo]

deep mole?

[rooboy]

2. Sounds like crap...

but if true, it's only "not good" for Berger. It has NOTHING to do with John Kerry or George Bush or anyone else.

[buycitgo]

7. just think, though: his putative secretary of state

unmasked as, what, nuts, or a spy, beholden to hidden interests?

this would go a LONG way toward cementing the junta's hold on national security issues

this could be terrible, if true

wonder why they haven't been talking to him, though, and I wonder who these sources are.

same ones who say he stuffed his socks?

still, you KNOW the media will trumpet this above the 911 stories, AND the convention

doesn't matter if all this crap you mentioned is true, cause the media will fall all over themselves repeating it, til it's cemented in the national consciousness

[rumguy]

18. I would say the putative Sec. of State is Richard Holbrooke

[buycitgo]

19. he's been the subject of too many puff pieces to hold up

under scrutiny

I read about the SecState thing somewhere today

[notadmblnd]

11. When he allegedly took this information..

Wasn't he working for the 911 commission and not John Kerry?

[grasswire]

4. drudge

That's the blurb on drudge report.

[girl gone mad]

5. Drudge is only right about..

1% of the time, if that.

[liberalmuse]

15. OMG, DRUDGE said it? Then it MUST be true!

Just like the Kerry/intern affair...and Hillary getting the nod for VP...I don't need to go on, do I?

[jdj]

6. Remember Nick Berg was beheaded.

This is only about Sandy Berger, right?

Or are they relating the two?

[Kadie]

8. Sounds like they were planning on some of the papers disappearing

"devised coding system, marked documents they knew Berger was interested in canvassing, watched him carefully"
:wtf:

[notadmblnd]

12. or perhaps "they" planned the disappearance of those papers

for Mr. Berger? Just a little too convenient if you ask me.

[asjr]

13. I think you are absolutely right! Maybe he was being set up

because he told C.Rice all they knew about OBL either right before or just after Shrub took office. Then they said they knew nothing. I am so tired of Repub crap.

[opihimoimoi]

14. Yep, they kinda suspected he might be back and so a set up was made:

He took a little but they hid more... guess who gets the full blame??

[ClassWarrior]

9. WHEEEEEEEEEE!!!...

Spin! Spin! Spin!

[seabeyond]

10. i heard matthews bring this up tonight on his early show

dont know. he implied they set up the sting put the same or similar document in and berger came in and took that on a second time

i have heard no one mention he took things twice

[Oilwellian]

16. As Berger's lawyer recently stated....

everything he looked at in the archives were COPIES of the original documents. The 911 Commission also states they received a copy of the "millennium memo" so what exactly are they trying to insinuate?

[Swede]

17. It was Clinton's penis of course.

[nose pin]

20. Drudge now has a link to Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A4189-2004Jul21?language=printer

Last Oct. 2, former Clinton national security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger stayed huddled over papers at the National Archives until 8 p.m.

What he did not know as he labored through that long Thursday was that the same Archives employees who were solicitously retrieving documents for him were also watching their important visitor with a suspicious eye.

After Berger's previous visit, in September, Archives officials believed documents were missing. This time, they specially coded the papers to more easily tell whether some went missing, said government officials and legal sources familiar with the case.

The notion of one of Washington's most respected foreign policy figures being subjected to treatment that had at least a faint odor of a sting operation is a strange one. But the peculiarities -- and conflicting versions of events and possible motives -- were just then beginning in a case that this week bucked Berger out of an esteemed position as a leader of the Democratic government-in-waiting that had assembled around presidential nominee John F. Kerry

snip.....

[Cannikin]

21. Consider the source...

[riverwalker]

22. Wash. Post also has child rape video

of children in Abu Ghraib. Why don't they do a story on that?

"Photographic and videotape evidence of this torture is currently in the hands of the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the U.S. Congress and the White House. It must be released."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/072004A.shtml

[Swamp Rat]

23. Hey meisje! Who are you talking about, Berg or Berger?

Link please!

[roguevalley]

24. As a former school librarian and the daughter of one, I think they need to

fire a few people here. Tell me, what tipped them off that they had a
'thief'? A note from Karl or their inherent bullshit meter? Bags.

[onecitizen]

25. Actually, I heard someone on one of the shows.......

say just about that. Why would they use THAT tact with a former Nat. Sec Adviser to the POTUS? I mean, wouldn't you think they would just ask him if he had anything that he should have left there rather than setting up a sting for him? This still stinks!

I mean, why would they suspect him of anything? I mean, if anyone could view those records it would surely be him. I dunno. Stinks I tell ya!

[TexasSissy]

27. I'll wait for the facts to come out. There's an investigation.

No need to get hot about unverified sources and quotes from stories with no links.

I've heard stories of him stuffing his pants with papers, stuffing his socks, stuffing his clothing. Please. Give me a break. They make it sound like he should have been sounding like rustling paper walking out of there, what with all the paper he had stuffed on him. It's just not plausible.

[NightOwwl]

28. Well, here's MSNBC's article:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5463586/

So you see, there is another side to the story.

[soothsayer]

30. So if they supposedly witnessed him taking things, why didn't they stop

him before he left?

Doesn't sound right to me.