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From: LindyBill	3/31/2005 8:47:17 PM
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Pop Quiz By Cori Dauber What little detail is missing from this CNN story on Sandy Berger's guilty plea on the "documents down the pants" case from last year? (It was missing from NBC's report just now, too.) I didn't notice ABC mention the plea, but it's on their web site, where they have an AP report, and the detail is missing there, too. You've got to go to Reuters (which also gets the charge right: knowingly taking and keeping classified documents.) What's the detail? Berger isn't just "pleading guilty to a misdemeanor." He's agreeing to give up his clearance. Does it not strike anyone else that that's more than a little bit relevant and more than a little bit significant when we're talking about someone who was the National Security Advisor only five years ago? This is not a small thing, and leaving it out is leaving out information so critical to the reader or viewer in helping them understand how to judge the significance placed on what Berger did in reality (plea bargains aside) that it ends up misleading instead of informing.

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