Berger Ticketed For Reckless Driving
Does anyone know why this guy is not sitting in lock-down for the rest of his life?
I grabbed most of the rest of the column (below) because I just don't get it...
Not just in his suit... In his socks, down his pants, etc. He took documents to the bathroom in order to stuff them on his person. He willfully and with forethought stole classified documents from the national archives.
How is it personally convenient to sneak papers from the reviewing room into a bathroom and stuff them into your clothing, multiple times? This is not a convenience issue.
There was no lapse in judgement... He took several potty breaks and requested that security leave the room while he reviewed documents. He then placed them on his person took them home and destroyed several papers. This is like saying that Bonnie and Clyde had a lapse in judgement...
Mistake, yes... Honest? Not hardly!
That's pretty cool... Steal documents that are going to be used in the biggest investigation this country has ever seen, from the highest security document archive in the nation, destroy them... and you have to work in a soup kitchen for 100 hours? HOLY CRAP!!! I once got slapped with 100 hours of community service for stealing a case of beer... His fine was larger though, so I guess that makes up the difference. WTF ?
ABC 7 News-
Two days after he was placed on probation last month for taking classified documents, former national security adviser Sandy Berger was accused of reckless driving by two Virginia police who said he was traveling 88 miles per hour in a 55 mph zone.
On Wednesday, Berger appeared before the same federal magistrate who had sentenced him on Sept. 8 in the documents case. Deborah Robinson admonished Berger, and she will decide eventually whether to punish him further.
The traffic offense occurred while Berger, the former national security adviser to President Clinton, is on a two-year probation handed down as part of his sentence in the document case.
Berger is scheduled to appear Oct. 18, in local traffic court in Fairfax County, Va., on the reckless driving ticket.
He was stopped on Sept. 10, and two days later he informed the probation office of the U.S. District Court that he had been speeding because he was late to a meeting and was unaware of how fast he was traveling.
The probation office "reiterated to Mr. Berger" that all violations of the law and probation are taken seriously, the office said in a two-page report to the federal magistrate dated Sept. 28. Berger had been headed east on Interstate 66, a major highway into Washington, D.C.
I grabbed most of the rest of the column (below) because I just don't get it...
Berger's Sept. 8 sentencing capped a bizarre sequence of events in which he admitted to sneaking classified documents out of the National Archives in his suit, later destroying some of them in his office and then lying about it.
Not just in his suit... In his socks, down his pants, etc. He took documents to the bathroom in order to stuff them on his person. He willfully and with forethought stole classified documents from the national archives.
"I let considerations of personal convenience override clear rules of handling classified material," Berger said at the time.
"In this case, I failed. I will not again," he vowed.
How is it personally convenient to sneak papers from the reviewing room into a bathroom and stuff them into your clothing, multiple times? This is not a convenience issue.
He called his actions a lapse of judgment that came while he was preparing to testify before the Sept. 11 Commission last year. The documents he took contained information on terror threats in the United States during the 2000 millennium celebration.
There was no lapse in judgement... He took several potty breaks and requested that security leave the room while he reviewed documents. He then placed them on his person took them home and destroyed several papers. This is like saying that Bonnie and Clyde had a lapse in judgement...
Initially saying his actions were an "honest mistake," Berger pleaded guilty in April to a misdemeanor of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material.
Mistake, yes... Honest? Not hardly!
In the documents case, Robinson also fined Berger $50,000 and sentenced him to 100 hours of community service.
That's pretty cool... Steal documents that are going to be used in the biggest investigation this country has ever seen, from the highest security document archive in the nation, destroy them... and you have to work in a soup kitchen for 100 hours? HOLY CRAP!!! I once got slapped with 100 hours of community service for stealing a case of beer... His fine was larger though, so I guess that makes up the difference. WTF ?
