Notice how The New Republic tries to play down the Berger-Kerry connection?
For the operatives of the political left, the damage control is centering
around trying to limit the discussion to the connection between Berger and
Clinton, and minimize any consideration of the link between Berger and
Kerry.
It's Damage Control time for the DNC and their stooges in the leftist
media....
Turning Tale
by Martin Peretz
Only at TNR Online
Post date: 07.21.04
I confess: I do not like Sandy Berger; and I have not liked him since the
first time we met, long ago during the McGovern campaign, not because of his
politics since I more or less shared them then, but for his hauteur.
[naturally "not because of his politics", because TNR is leftist in its
politics, as is Berger, Clinton, and Kerry!]
He clearly still has McGovernite politics, which means, in my mind, at
least, that he believes there is no international dispute that can't be
solved by the U.S. walking away from it. No matter. Still, here's his story
about the filched classified materials dealing with the foiled Al Qaeda
millennium terrorist bombing plot from the National Archives: He
inadvertently took home documents and notes about documents that he was not
permitted to take from the archives; secondly, he inadvertently didn't
notice the papers in his possession when he got home and actually looked at
them; and, thirdly, he inadvertently discarded some of these same files so
that they are now missing. Gone, in fact. One of his lawyers attributes this
behavior to "sloppiness," which may better explain his career as Bill
Clinton's National Security Adviser and certainly describes his presentation
of self in everyday life.
[which also explains Kerry's choice of Berger as HIS top security advisor!]
But it is not an explanation of his conduct in the archives or, for that
matter, at home. Personnel at the archives actually noticed him stuffing his
pockets with papers as he left, which is how the FBI found out about this
bizarre tale in the first place. Inadvertence, then, doesn't do it either.
Maybe Sandy wanted souvenirs from his career in the White House that was
punctuated by so many catastrophes for the United States.
Nonetheless, he has had ambitions tied to John Kerry's, ambitions that clash
with those of Richard Holbrooke and Joe Biden, who decisively do not have
McGovernite politics. But Berger did run the Kerry foreign policy team at
the writing of the Democratic Party platform a few weeks ago (when the only
opposition, easily pacified, came from a handful of Dennis Kucinich
loyalists) and has been deeply involved in crafting how the candidate
presents himself on these issues. So my question is: Did Berger, who knew
that he was under scrutiny since last fall, alert Kerry to the combustible
fact that he was the subject of a criminal probe by the Justice Department
and the FBI? My guess is not.
[pay attention, Folks - here comes the attempt by the Left to disassociate
Berger from Kerry!]
Kerry is far too smart, too responsible to have kept him around had he
known. But if Kerry didn't know, it tells you a lot about Berger, too much,
really.
[but perhaps the point is, Kerry DID know, Mr. Peretz!]
A more important question, of course, is: What was contained in the papers
that Berger snatched?
[an even MORE important question, Mr. Peretz, but one which you leftist
journalists will NOT ask, is "What did Kerry know, and when did he know
it?"]
The answer to that question might answer another. Maybe Clinton's top
national security aide didn't want others to see what they documented.
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=express&s=peretz072104
[and Mr. Peretz and the other journalists of the Left are DESPERATELY trying
to keep the attention OFF of the Berger-Kerry connection! They don't want
the VOTERS to see the close association between KERRY and Berger!]
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