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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Saturday, July 31, 2004

Berger absovled from certain sins

Instapundit doesn't seem to understand.
HERE'S A REPORT that Sandy Berger has been cleared of all wrongdoing. But here's another report saying that the first report is wrong. Which is true? Beats me. Stay tuned.

Everytime I click on the first link, I get a generic news page. So maybe they realised their report was somewhat in error. I will reference this Wall Street Journal article, because I think I know why he is confused:
Officials looking into the removal of classified documents from the National Archives by former Clinton National Security Adviser Samuel Berger say no original materials are missing and nothing Mr. Berger reviewed was withheld from the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

Several prominent Republicans, including House Speaker Dennis Hastert and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, have voiced suspicion that when Mr. Berger was preparing materials for the 9/11 Commission on the Clinton administration's antiterror actions, he may have removed documents that were potentially damaging to the former president's record.

So he's been cleared of wrongdoing in relation to the coverup aspect of the whole ordeal. The 9/11 comission viewed a copy of every document it needed, and the claim that Berger destroyed anything to keep it from the comission's eyes is debunked. As for the handwritten notes and such, that is another issue.

Hope that helps!