The Nattering Nabob

We all know that the Republican will invent scandals out of whole cloth.  So when they actually HAVE something to criticize - like the business of Sandy Berger taking his notes and some copies of documents - they pile it massively high and deep.

For the record though:  What Berger did was REALLY stupid.  But it didn't compromise a damned thing, and, for whatever reason he did it, it obviously wasn't to hide anything, since the original documents remained right where there were.  He took copies.That matter was settled on CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight," with Dobbs interviewing two members of the 9/11 Commission:

DOBBS: Let me ask you, not necessarily directly on point, but certainly related. Sandy Berger, the former head of the national security -- national security adviser under the Clinton administration, accused of, and admitting taking classified documents from the National Archives, those notes, whether copies or originals still unclear. Did the commission review that material, to what -- can you shed any light on what happened there? Slade Gorton, first.

GORTON: Well, we can't shed any light on exactly what happened there and on Sandy Berger's troubles with the Justice Department and the Archives. What we can say unequivocally is we had all of that information. We have every one of those documents. All of them have -- are infused in and are a part of our report.

DOBBS: So the commission was denied no information as a result of whatever Sandy Berger did or did not do at the National Archives?

GORTON: That's precisely correct.

GORELICK: And we have been so assured by the Justice Department.

Lou Dobbs Tonight, July 22nd 2004