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How Blitzer helped Berger lawyer make it sound like an accident
For a subtle example of the liberal media doing its work of covering up for liberals, read Wolf Blitzer’s interview with Lanny Breuer, Sandy Berger’s attorney and a one-time special counsel to President Clinton, as well as the second Clintonite spokesman named Lanny—let us not forget Lanny Davis. (In keeping with the pre-adolescent informality of these men’s first names, I will call them by their first names.) At first, Lanny’s story sounds reasonable. He admits Sandy improperly took his handwritten notes out of the reading room at the National Archives, but says this was only against the National Archive procedures, not a criminal violation. As for the actual documents that Sandy took, Lanny says it was a mistake. Sandy was reviewing thousands of documents and accidentally got that one document mixed up with his own papers and accidentally stuck that document into his leather portfolio. Ok, that’s possible. I’m starting to think there’s less here than meets the eye. However, now it gets interesting. It turns out that there were several documents (or alternatively, several different copies of the same document) that Sandy removed from the Archives. One could believe that Sandy accidentally slipped one top secret document into his portfolio; it is much harder to believe that he accidentally slipped three or four such documents into his portfolio. And now it gets even more interesting. As you follow the transcript of the Wolf-Lanny interview about Sandy’s accident, you notice that Lanny keeps moving back and forth between a singular “document” and plural “documents.” This inconsistency raises all kinds of questions in your mind and makes it hard to follow what Lanny is saying. But with Wolf, it’s worse. Wolf’s questions only refer to “the document,” or “that document.” Though Wolf must have realized by this point in the interview that Sandy illegally took several documents, he keeps speaking of one document, thus helping maintain the impression that the illegal taking of the document(s) was a simple accident. (To read the interview, scroll down to where it says, “BLITZER: Brian Todd, thanks very much for that report.”) Also, the number of accidents here keeps compounding. Sandy has released a statement that says: “In the course of reviewing over several days thousands of pages of documents on behalf of the Clinton administration in connection with requests by the September 11 commission, I inadvertently took a few documents from the Archives. When I was informed by the Archives that there were documents missing, I immediately returned everything I had except for a few documents that I apparently had accidentally discarded.”
So, not only did Sandy accidentally mix up the top secret documents with his personal papers on the table where he was working at the Archives, not only did he then accidentally place the top secret documents in his portfolio along with his private papers, but, after going home, he removed the top secret documents from his portfolio and accidentally discarded them. How many accidents can one guy have? Is this the way Craig Livingstone ended up in possession of 900 secret FBI files? Email entry |