Berglar Finds A Job

...With an old boss.

Despite recently confessing that he stole top secret terrorism documents, disgraced former national security advisor Sandy Berger continues to serve in an advisory capacity to 2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton - fulfilling much the same roll that Berger played in John Kerry's presidential campaign.

As recently as two months ago - at a time when Berger was working out a plea bargain with federal prosecutors - the former White House aide was recruited by Mrs. Clinton to help her with a speech to the annual Munich Conference on Security Policy.

Though the conventional wisdom in Washington is that Berger's guilty plea made him too much of a political liability to ever again serve any president, it's clear the Clintons continue to hold their tarnished aide in high regard.

"He is a good man," Mr. Clinton said after Berger was nabbed last July. "He has worked his heart out for this country."

Senator Clinton's silence on the Berger imbroglio has prompted speculation that she's merely waiting for the smoke to clear to publicly announce a campaign role for her disgraced advisor.

What can I say? He's a Clintonoid. And Clintonoids always get off scot-free, no matter how many laws they break. Not even the John Ashcroft Justice Department would lay a hand on him.

Heck, why shouldn't Mrs. Clinton embrace him? What possible political cost could there be to that now? What cost would there ever have been? Besides, even if there were any, Hillary is bullet-proof in any case.

Watching Berger's confirmation hearings as Hillary's Secretary of State four years from now before Joe Biden's Senate Foreign Relations Committee should be of at least passable interest, if only to see if any of the minority Republicans can work up the courage to even make oblique mention of Berger's criminal record.

My guess is he'll be confirmed unanimously - and walk winkingly out of the Committee room with all the GOP briefs stuffed down his pants, to the hysterical laughter and cheers of the Democrat majority.