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Berger and a side order of lies

A lie detector test.
As the FNC story points out, the document-filching Clinton aide did agree to take a polygraph test as part of a plea deal reached in September 2005. Now, some GOP lawmakers want to know why the Justice Department won’t follow through:
The Justice Department should administer a polygraph test to former National Security [...]

Photoshop: Shieldsnet
Under a trailer. Oh, my:
Former national security adviser Sandy Berger removed classified documents from the National Archives in 2003 and hid them under a construction trailer, the Archives inspector general reported Wednesday.
The report was issued more than a year after Berger pleaded guilty and received a criminal sentence for removal of the documents.
Inspector General [...]

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Remember that “viewer discretion is advised” post I did on Friday featuring TS’s mock warning slate for ABC?
Allah captured the real-life slate ABC aired before “Path to 9/11″ began this evening. Click for the vid and live comment thread. More to come:

Running commentary from Glenn Reynolds and [...]

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From the nutroots in full-blown Rove Derangement Syndrome mode…

To the top of the Democratic Party…

…the protests against ABC’s 9/11 docu-drama, “Path to 9/11,” have become completely unhinged.
The Ostroy Report says this morning:
In a story in Friday’s New York Times, former Governor of New Jersey and co-chair of the federal 9/11 Commission, Thomas H. [...]

Sandy Berger has been hired as an adviser on ABC’s “Commander-in-chief.” Better put the scripts under lock and key.
Sen. Tom Coburn moves to defund the bridge to nowhere. The Club for Growth has details.
Maryland Lt. Gov Michael Steele will announce his Senate plans next week. Stay tuned.
Bill Nienhuis is blogging from Dachau.
Bloggers are keeping [...]

The blogosphere is buzzing with excellent commentary and analysis of the Operation Able Danger revelations and the 9/11 Commission’s CYA act.

Jim Geraghty has a comprehensive review of what we know and don’t know over at TKS.
Then head over to Captain’s Quarters, where Ed Morrissey has created a new category for his invaluable posts on the [...]

More on Larry Franklin and the national security scandal few seem to care about…
-AIPAC seems to be breathing a sigh of relief and is expecting Washington to go about business as usual when the lobbying group holds its annual conference in two weeks. The Jerusalem Post reports…
In a little over two weeks, AIPAC holds its [...]

So far, the commentariat and blogosphere (both left and right sides) have been curiously quiet about the news that Pentagon official Larry Franklin was arrested for improperly passing classified information to AIPAC.
Last summer, you may recall, there was quite a bit of analysis–from colleagues I respect and admire–downplaying the case.
Despite the arrest and the gravity [...]

The AP reports this afternoon:
The FBI arrested a Pentagon analyst Wednesday on charges that he illegally passed classified information about potential attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq to employees of a pro-Israel group.
Larry Franklin, 58, of Kearneysville, W. Va., turned himself in Wednesday morning, FBI spokeswoman Debra Weierman said. He was scheduled to make an [...]

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has fired two senior employees who are involved in a long-running federal investigation of possible Israeli spying in the United States, according to a New York Times article:
Officials have said Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman knew Lawrence A. Franklin, a Defense Department analyst who is suspected of giving them [...]

From AP:
A 21-year-old fast-food employee has been sentenced to probation and six months in jail for double-swiping the credit cards of customers who irritated him. Travis Dominguez pleaded guilty to one count of credit card fraud, a third-degree felony. He was accused of doubled-swiping cards at the Midvale Taco Bell where he worked five times, [...]

Both the New York Times and the Washington Post describe the five documents taken by Sandy Berger as “copies” of documents he left at the National Archives.
The Times says, “in the plea agreement reached with prosecutors, he is expected to admit that he intentionally removed copies of five classified documents…”
The Post says Berger [...]

Sandy “Honestly, I had no idea how those papers got into my socks, jacket pocket, and portfolio” Berger will plead guilty to misdemeanor theft of classified documents.
My, what serendipitous timing. Just saying.
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Flashbacks:
Sandy Berg(l)er?
Berger and a side order of lies
Ace of Spades spoof: Mystical Artifacts Removed From Top-Secret Government Warehouse
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Update: An unhinged reader says Berger [...]

From the Washington Post:
A Virginia man who had research access to the National Archives pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing more than 100 Civil War-era documents from the historic records depository, including letters from Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, William Tecumseh Sherman and George Armstrong Custer.
In his plea agreement, Howard W. Harner Jr., 68, of Staunton, [...]

Sorry to mix food metaphors here, but if this devastating Washington Post story is accurate, Sandy Berger is officially chopped liver.
And the National Archivist staffers who nabbed him in the act should win some huge Librarians of the Year awards.
Update: Legal XXX groans at the bad Berger buns puns. I’m surprised no West Coast bloggers [...]

“Inadvertent?” What pure 100 percent FDA-approved B.S.
Instapundit has a good round-up of comments from folks who work with classified documents and are familiar with security procedures at National Archives and other libraries. Jonah Goldberg is getting an avalanche of similar e-mails. John Hinderaker shares his experience doing research at the State Department.
My own aside: [...]

Whoa.
Well..,

It’s.
Not.
Like.
It’s.
Anything.
New.
Stefan notes the Kerry connection. (Via Captain’s Quarters)
OTB muses: “Perhaps his dog ate it.”
Hmmm. More likely culprit: Socks the Cat.
Update: Let the Sandy Berger Photoshopping begin! First out of the gate: Blogs of War.
More: Mark Levin in April noted some damning info that Berger wasn’t able to stuff down his pants.
The Washington [...]