I'm sure a lot of people are tired of hearing about Sandy Berger, oh wait, we're NOT hearing about him. I can't understand why the ny slimes wouldn't be doing stories about a former national security advisor who STOLE AND DESTROYED CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS DURING WAR TIME. How about NBC? isn't this interesting? CBS? Katie what's up? Well at least we have cable news to cover it right? Hey Keith Overbite what's up with Sandy Berger? How about Mathews? That's hardball? why is she pitching underhand?
No, it's up to talk radio and the blogosphere to keep this story going, but i'm sure there's no media bias or anything.
So did you hear about the top government official that just got a year in jail for taking classified documents home? No, he didn't stuff them in his socks, he didn't hide them by a construction trailer and return later to retrieve them, he didn't alter or destroy them. His story was that he was simply "careless" and didn't realize he had taken them. Sound familiar?
WASHINGTON -- I guess 3,500 classified documents would be too many to stuff into your clothing if you were a high-ranking government official and wanted to take them home for leisure reading. Perhaps that explains why this week one of the State Departments most knowledgeable experts on China, Donald W. Keyser, a Foreign Service officer with three decades of experience, was sentenced to a year in the hoosegow after these documents were found in his Fairfax County residence.
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I don't have a problem with jail time for Sandy Berger, as well as Karl Rove and Dick Cheney, for the Plame affair.
Whats crazy about "the plame affair" is that there WAS NO CRIME committed. Even the one person who is being prosecuted is not on trial for "outing" anyone.
You and fitzgerald should just drop it already and focus your time and energy on an actual criminal like berger.
Two indisputable facts:
1) Outing a covert operative is a crime.
2)The CIA has said from day one that Valerie Plame was a covert operative under the definition of the law.
Therefore, a crime was committed.
If someone is murdered on a street corner and no one is arrested, was a crime committed? Sometimes the police even know who did it but don't have a strong enough case to arrest someone.
Perjury and obstruction of justice are also crimes.
yes gary if someone outed valerie plame that person should be prosecuted. That person however is not scooter libby, it's richard armitage.
It's not dick cheney, it's not rove, it's not libby, it's a vocal critic of the presidents war policy inside the administration.
So libby's account of exactly when he heard about wilson isn't the same as novaks. That's it. Where's the crime? More importantly, if as you say plame was undercover, then why isn't armitage being prosecuted? he's already admitted to being the source AFTER he said he wasn't, so that means he not only "outed" plame, but also obstructed justice.
You're the conspiracy guy, why do you think the focus is on libby instead of armitage?
Could it be political? NO i'm sure there's no politics involved here even though they wanted rove so bad he was under investigation even AFTER the armitage business was discovered. they wanted someone higher up, and they couldn't get cheney or rove so they got as close as they could. Its as bad as the duke rape case and i think fitgerald should be the next one who gets investigated.
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