So how many felons are going to be on Clinton’s team?

As many as dirty money will buy!!

Not surprising! I really hope she is not our next President! I am so sick of the Clinton’s.

Is he a felon? I really thought felons were unable to vote. IF so Hillary is in BIG trouble on election day.

One would think that Hillary, or at least one of her many advisors, would realize that people will view this as payback for Berger having stolen and destroyed key national security documents that would have been a serious embarrassment to the Clinton camp.

But if public perception is not a concern to the Clintons, then the only other possible explanations are the Clintons’ unmitigated arrogance, and that fact that Berger has keys to a very dark closet. After all, its not as though Sandy Berger’s tenure as National Security Advisor was marked by any particular foreign policy accomplishment or successes.

Berger’s White House tenure was marked by the successful theft of American nuclear weapons and ballistic missile guidance technologies by the Chinese, at the same time that the Clinton White House was knee deep in millions of dollars of illegal Chinese contributions to the Clinton/Gore ’96 reelection campaign.

At the time, Berger took the heat for not informing the president for over a year of the Chinese espionage efforts. From Wikipedia:

In 1999, Berger was criticized for failing to promptly inform President Clinton of his knowledge that the People’s Republic of China had managed to acquire the designs of a number of U.S. nuclear warheads. Berger was originally briefed of the espionage by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) in April 1996, but did not (supposedly) inform the president until July 1997.

Republicans, and some few Democrats, called for Berger to be fired. Clinton replied,

The record is that we acted aggressively. Mr. Berger acted appropriately.

The same Wikipedia entry also includes this intriguing note, however,

After leaving the State Department at the end of the Carteradministration), Berger went on to join the law firm Hogan & Hartson where he helped expand the firm’s international law practice. As a partner, he opened the firm’s first two international offices, in London and Brussels.

“Sandy Berger,” Nancy Pelosi said in 1997 prior to becoming Speaker of the House, “was the point person at… Hogan & Hartson… for the trade office of the Chinese government. He was a lawyer-lobbyist.”

Pelosi’s description of Berger’s previous employment was not a casual remark, nor was it intended to be complimentary. It was part of an interview given to journalist Nat Hentoff in 1997 and published by WaPo in which Pelosi slammed the Clinton administration for the full military honors given visiting Chinese Defense Minister and former PLA chief, General Chi Hua-Tien, the man who ordered the slaughter of thousands of unarmed Chinese civilians at Tien An Men Square.

“Oh, my God,” said Pelosi, ” I thought I would never see the day. The president won’t see the Dalai Lama. He won’t see the pro-democracy dissidents, he won’t see Harry Wu, but he did see this thug. It’s absolutely appalling.”

Of course, Pelosi likely did not know at the time, that the Clinton/Gore reelection team was taking in millions in illegal campaign contributions from the Chinese PLA, funneled through the Rhiyadi family, Johnny Chung, and Charlie Trie, or that Berger would later take the heat for conveniently neglecting to inform the president about reports of Chinese nuclear and ballistic missile espionage efforts at the same time in 1996.

Is it possible that Berger’s theft of National Security documents had more to do with Chinese espionage and bribery than with al Qaeda terrorism? Is it possible that Berger didn’t actually destroy everything he stole from the National Archives building? Is it possible that the man who was a lobbyist for China and his firm’s “point man” on China wasn’t aware that Clinton/Gore ’96 was knee deep in illegal Chinese cash, or that the Chinese were stealing US nuclear and missile guidance technology… on his watch as National Security Advisor?

Yeah, right!