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April 06, 2005
Who gets to laugh last?
Here's Dick Morris on the reaction of Bill and Hillary Clinton to the Sandy Berger bust: The Clintons' reaction when Berger was caught? The former president's comments sound just too scripted to believe: He laughed and said that it was typical of Sandy to be disorganized and forget how he handled documents. Quite a comment about the man he appointed to superintend the nation's secrets.How to explain this apparent inconsistency? I don't know. Unless they knew in advance that nothing would really happen to him..... The whole thing reeks. It is natural and a thing to be expected that Berger would (as Morris says he did) cover for the Clintons. But why would Bush's Justice Department? (For what it's worth, I previously voiced some gloomier suspicions. Perhaps my fears are wrong, and this is all just another example of the old boy network in action. Does that mean everything's OK?) MORE: It's fascinating to note how this story has changed over time. UPDATE (04/08/05): It now appears that the allegation of hand-written notations on the copies is an urban legend: But that's simply an "urban myth," prosecutor Hillman tells us, based on a leak last July that was "so inaccurate as to be laughable." In fact, the five iterations of the anti-terror "after-action" report at issue in the case were printed out from a hard drive at the Archives and have no notations at all.If that is true (and I have no reason to believe it isn't), then it looks like Virginia Postrel's "bumbling Berger" theory was right all along. (Not sure how to interpret the Journal's "conservatives don't do themselves any credit when they are as impervious to facts as the loony left" statement. . . Until Hillman furnished his explanation, just where were these "facts?") MORE: Power Line's John Hinderaker is not completely satisfied -- either with Hillman's explanation or the WSJ's scolding. posted by Eric on 04.06.05 at 06:57 PM |
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