Sandy “Down My Britches” Berger Is A Key Policy Adviser To Hillary’s Campaign
The more experienced Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, has relied largely on her husband and a triumvirate of senior officials from his presidency—former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, former U.N. ambassador Richard Holbrooke and former national-security adviser Sandy Berger (who tries to keep a low profile after pleading guilty in 2005 to misdemeanor charges of taking classified material without authorization).
Berger’s crime isn’t given justice here. It wasn’t just taking classified information without clearance, it was taking and destroying classified national security documents related to the Clinton administration’s anti-terror efforts immediately before Bill Clinton’s testimony before the 9/11 commission. A factoid that has, strangely, been completely ignored by the 9/11 conspiracy mongers on the left and among Ron Paul’s supporters in favor of theories about the Bush administration.
Anyway, I wonder if Hillary’s campaign isn’t the first campaign ever to feature the services of a national security adviser who, by order of a criminal court ruling, has no access to national security documents.
Or isn’t supposed to have access anyway. But hey, given that his slap-on-the-wrist sentence only removed his clearance for three years, he should have back in time should Hillary get into the White House.
