What Berger 'took'

[Annie]

Related to this?

http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/g...Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/07/23&ID=Ar01000

In other words, according to the commission report, Mr. Berger was presented with plans to take action against the threat of Al Qaeda four separate times — Spring 1998, June 1999, December 1999, and August 2000. Each time, Mr. Berger was an obstacle to action. Had he been a little less reluctant to act, a little more open to taking pre-emptive action, maybe the 2,973 killed in the September 11, 2001, attacks would be alive today.

 

[freeandfun1]

It really doesn’t matter now what was in the documents from the National Archives that Mr. Berger says he inadvertently misplaced. The evidence in the commission’s report yesterday is more than enough to embarrass him thoroughly.He is a hardworking, warm man with a wonderful family, but his background as a trade lawyer and his dovish, legalistic and political instincts made him, in retrospect,the tragically wrong man to be making national security decisions for America in wartime. That Senator Kerry had Mr. Berger as a campaign foreign policy adviser even before the archives scandal is enough to raise doubts about the senator’s judgment.

Other aspects of the report, including the absence of serious recommendations for dealing with the terrorist threats from Syria or Iran, are harder to understand. The report is being taken seriously for its political ramifications for the Bush administration and for its policy recommendations. But perhaps its greatest value is

as a history — more, a sad epitaph — of the Clinton-Berger administration.

The above quotes are interesting.

 

[dilloduck]

When the Burgler said " It was a simple mistake" he may have been referring to Clintons' decision to select him for that postion. :

 

[insein]

When the Burgler said " It was a simple mistake" he may have been referring to Clintons' decision to select him for that postion. :

Definitely sloppy.

 

[Annie]

Definitely sloppy.

You stick several documents down your pants or in your socks and it's a 'mistake'? Hmmmm

 

[musicman]

And they gave Pee Wee Herman hell!

 

[Annie]

And they gave Pee Wee Herman hell!

Well, PeeWee always was 'odd'.