It is also true that most of the leaks, including the release that there was an investigation, are coming from the Berger camp or from Democrats
I agree. I'm on record as suspecting that Billary is behind the Berger fiasco. Billary, we know from Dick Morris, is in a low flame, high heat war with Kerry, and Berger handed them the Perfect Dirty Trick on a silver platter.
I like Hog on Ice's speculation that Billary are the leakers. His thinking is almost exactly the same as mine on this point:
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Today I was wondering if this mess had come from the Clintons.
We know Hillary Clinton hates Kerry. He's the biggest threat to her Presidential aspirations.
Hillary wants a few years of noncontroversial Senate service, so the smell of the Clinton administration crimes and misdeeds will be overcome by the comparatively sweet scent of what Dick Morris calls "the HILLARY brand." She wants people to think of her as a separate entity from Bill, and, I assume, as one who hasn't committed any crimes or major ethical violations lately. That's why she's not running now. But she's dying to run in 2008.
Kerry will ruin that if he wins. He'll run as an incumbent Democrat, so he'll automatically get the nomination. Hillary wants to run against the untried Republican who follows Bush.
The animosity between Kerry and Hillary is well-known. Just recently, he tried to bar her from speaking at the Democrat Convention, and she put him in his place and got herself put on the list. And Kerry has been frustrated by the Clintons' lame efforts at supporting him, their competing with him for Democrat dollars, and the release of Bill's pack of lies book, which took attention away from Kerry.
Berger was on the short list to become Kerry's Secretary of State or CIA director. By outing him as a felon who gravely endangered our national security in order to help Kerry, the Clintons could harm Kerry's campaign badly enough to keep him out of the White House, depending on the breaks (as Buck Turgidson put it).
Who sprang to Berger's defense when the story broke? Terry McAuliffe. McAuliffe is a Clinton puppet, pure and simple, beyond dispute. Bill Clinton owns the DNC, and Terry McAuliffe is the pseudopod through which he runs it, and saying so is about as controversial as saying Condoleezza Rice jumps for George Bush.
McAuliffe responded by making a pathetic, facially flawed FOIA request for Berger's DOJ records. In all likelihood, the request is doomed, because you can't ask for FOIA records in an ongoing criminal investigation. Maybe McAuliffe is so stupid he didn't know that, but if that's true, most law school students who have interned for a week at any law firm in the United States are better lawyers than he is.
It could be that McAuliffe's "defense" is just an effort to divert attention away from the true source of the leak, i.e., some minion of Bill and Hillary.
It's somewhat far-fetched, but it's a fun game to play, and I can't resist.
The only problem I have with the theory is that it requires the Clintons to shaft a loyal crony. That's cold, even for them. Of course, you have to keep this in mind: they probably expected Berger to be indicted anyway, so they probably didn't harm him. His aspirations were doomed already. In truth, this will definitely help him if there's a trial, because it will contaminate the jury pool and make it tough to get a panel that hasn't heard about the case.
Anyway, Berger is washed up. His career is over, as of four days ago. Might as well start writing some memoirs of his own, while the scatterbrained American public still carries the newly refreshed memory of who he is.
For once, Hillary and I are on the same side. Let's hope we both get what we want. |
