Hillary Recruits "Sticky Fingers" Sandy Berger
C'mon, does this really surprise anybody?
When New York Senator Hillary Clinton needed help with her speech to the annual Munich Conference on Security Policy this weekend, she recruited her husband's former national security advisor, Sandy "Socksgate" Berger, who's currently the subject of a grand jury probe into allegations he stole top secret documents from the National Archives in 2003.
Though Berger resigned in disgrace from John Kerry's presidential campaign when the story broke last July, that didn't stop the former first lady from including him in a circle of former aides whose advice she sought.
Well, of course it wouldn't. What's the old saying? "Skunks of a feather flock together." Or something like that.
Berger wasn't the only one, of course. Sounds like it was a regular "old home" week:
Others who helped the top Dem included former U.N. ambassador Richard Holbrooke and Jeffrey Smith, the former general counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency, according to the New York Times, which revealed Berger's involvement in Monday editions.
Gotta love the credulity of a graf like this one:
It's not clear why Senator Clinton would have turned to the disgraced former aide, and risk conjuring up old doubts that neither she nor her husband could be trusted on national security matters. Before it was revealed in December that a Socksgate grand jury had been convened, Deputy Attorney General James Comey suggested that Berger could face prison.
Isn't unclear to me. For one thing, the '08 campaign doesn't kick off for another two years, and not in earnest for three. Nobody's going to remember this consultation by that time, assuming it's a one-shot deal. For another, Mrs. Clinton is coated in the same public relations teflon as her waste-of-skin hubby (It's community property, y'see). She could feature Ward Churchill on her national security team-in-waiting and it wouldn't slow down her momentum. Third, if she wants Berger in a third Clinton administration, despite #2 above, she'll be prudent enough to keep that intention to herself until after she's been elected, and then whip it out after she's moved back into the White House, in the highest Clinton tradition.
And of course, if ole Sandy is in the federal clink, the new president will have never known him.
At least until she pardons him. After all, it'll be early in her (first) term. There'll be nearly four years until she has to face the voters again. Plenty of time to triangulate later after the Dragon Lady carries out the vengeful reign of terror the Left will be demanding.
Something tells me if the right side of the blogosphere hasn't already been herded into cattle cars for the long, nightmare journey to the Alaskan gulag, we'll still have more than enough to cope with without crusading against Sandy Berger's professional resurrection.
When New York Senator Hillary Clinton needed help with her speech to the annual Munich Conference on Security Policy this weekend, she recruited her husband's former national security advisor, Sandy "Socksgate" Berger, who's currently the subject of a grand jury probe into allegations he stole top secret documents from the National Archives in 2003.
Though Berger resigned in disgrace from John Kerry's presidential campaign when the story broke last July, that didn't stop the former first lady from including him in a circle of former aides whose advice she sought.
Well, of course it wouldn't. What's the old saying? "Skunks of a feather flock together." Or something like that.
Berger wasn't the only one, of course. Sounds like it was a regular "old home" week:
Others who helped the top Dem included former U.N. ambassador Richard Holbrooke and Jeffrey Smith, the former general counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency, according to the New York Times, which revealed Berger's involvement in Monday editions.
Gotta love the credulity of a graf like this one:
It's not clear why Senator Clinton would have turned to the disgraced former aide, and risk conjuring up old doubts that neither she nor her husband could be trusted on national security matters. Before it was revealed in December that a Socksgate grand jury had been convened, Deputy Attorney General James Comey suggested that Berger could face prison.
Isn't unclear to me. For one thing, the '08 campaign doesn't kick off for another two years, and not in earnest for three. Nobody's going to remember this consultation by that time, assuming it's a one-shot deal. For another, Mrs. Clinton is coated in the same public relations teflon as her waste-of-skin hubby (It's community property, y'see). She could feature Ward Churchill on her national security team-in-waiting and it wouldn't slow down her momentum. Third, if she wants Berger in a third Clinton administration, despite #2 above, she'll be prudent enough to keep that intention to herself until after she's been elected, and then whip it out after she's moved back into the White House, in the highest Clinton tradition.
And of course, if ole Sandy is in the federal clink, the new president will have never known him.
At least until she pardons him. After all, it'll be early in her (first) term. There'll be nearly four years until she has to face the voters again. Plenty of time to triangulate later after the Dragon Lady carries out the vengeful reign of terror the Left will be demanding.
Something tells me if the right side of the blogosphere hasn't already been herded into cattle cars for the long, nightmare journey to the Alaskan gulag, we'll still have more than enough to cope with without crusading against Sandy Berger's professional resurrection.
posted by JASmius at 11:54 PM
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