GOP Seeks Berger Probe
It's about time! White house officials are falsely accused of outing a so-called covert CIA agent and the media has a three-year feeding frenzy. Meanwhile, a Clinton-era cabinet official, the national security advisor no less, gets caught with stolen classified documents, from the National Archive, stuffed in his pants and there's barely a blip on the radar. Sure the media ran a few stories about it. But none of them were as vigorous as the Plame-gate story.
Finally, someone in the republican party is calling for a more in-depth probe into the Berger scandal. Their timing is impeccable.
From Brietbart.Com:
A group of House Republicans called Wednesday for a congressional investigation into the improper handling of classified documents by President Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger.
Berger admitted last year that he deliberately took classified documents out of the National Archives in 2003 and destroyed some of them at his office. He pleaded guilty in federal court to one charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material and was fined $50,000.
Ten lawmakers led by House Armed Services Chairman Duncan Hunter, R- Calif., and Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., released a letter calling for the House Government Reform Committee to investigate.
They asked the committee to determine whether any documents were missing from Clinton administration terrorism records, to review security measures for classified documents and to seek testimony from Berger.
Hunter's spokesman, Joe Kasper, said the Justice Department had asked Congress to hold off on any oversight until the legal case concluded.
"It's important that the House conduct its own review to ensure there is a clear understanding of the facts, and sensitive and highly classified security information is not potentially compromised in the future," Kasper said.
Full story: GOP Leaders Seek Probe of Berger Papers.