Ha. I cannot stand Sandy Berger...I have written about this myself before recently. I love the democratic response when the story first broke (Myers, Clinton, and others)...I want to hear their opinions on the issue now that Berger has plead guilty (as the writer himself wonders.) It might be funny if it weren't such a serious issue.
A Guilty Plea That Speaks for Itself
Terry Eastland
In case you missed the story, Sandy Berger has pled guilty to charges that he removed and destroyed classified materials from the National Archives in 2003. Berger was Bill Clinton's national security adviser--a man much of establishment Washington thought could do no wrong. A lawyer at a blue-chip Washington firm, a foreign policy expert, the Democrat Berger got good press, and still does.
To read the press accounts, you'd think he barely did anything wrong. Nor did reporters remind readers of how Democrats circled the wagons around Berger when the Justice Department investigation began. "Much ado about nothing," said Dee Dee Myers. Republicans were engaged in character assassination, said Joe Lockhart. "The timing of the investigation," said Hillary Clinton, "speaks for itself."
But Berger's guilty plea is what speaks most loudly. And now we'll see if some enterprising reporter asks Berger's defenders whether they spoke too soon.