GETTING OFF EASY: BERGER'S CONFESSION
nypost.com
April 6, 2005 -- Regarding your editorial, "Berger's Burglary" (April 4), I must say I am truly disgusted that this guy is going to get away with nothing more than a fine and a temporary loss of his security clearance.
Berger has now admitted that he not only stole top-secret documents from the National Archives but also destroyed them — which means he has been lying all this time.
It also means that he likely lied to the 9/11 Commission.
If the Clinton administration really took the warnings of our vulnerability to a terrorist attack seriously — and acted on them — as Berger testified, there would have been no reason for him to steal and destroy those documents.
Well, at least the feds managed to nail that dangerous criminal, Martha Stewart.
James Imbrogno
Yonkers
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Sandy Berger and Bill Clinton are kindred spirits.
Both are perjurers. And both have problems with their pants, or the contents thereof.
How can the Democrats accept the behavior of these two clowns?
Kenna Amos
Princeton, W. Va.
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For several years, Americans have had to endure Democratic conspiracy theorists, who have labored to erode the wonderful unity that Americans displayed following the 9/11 attacks.
But, apparently, the only real conspiracy was the Democrats' effort to cover up the Clinton administration's malfeasance in fighting terrorism.
Berger is just the Clinton-administration stooge who was apprehended.
I can only image the ones that got away.
This is a national disgrace.
Robert Reeg
Stony Point
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I don't get it.
Berger admits and pleads guilty to removing — stealing, really — documents from the National Archives, a highly guarded and secure federal building, and he will only lose his security clearance for three years?
Why not permanently?
Danny Murtaugh
Mineola
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How in the world does someone admit to knowingly performing an illegal act but then get to claim that he "accidentally" covered it up?
On the bright side, his security clearance can be reinstated in three years — just in time for Hillary.
Sal Bifulco
Wesley Hills |
