Jan 25, 2007

Pressure for Burger polygraph over 9/11 documents

Tom Davis is leading a group of 18 lawmakers who say the Justice Department should give Sandy Berger (pictured) a polygraph test over 9/11 documents he stole from the national archives.

Davis is the ranking Republican on the Committee on Oversight and GovernmentReform.

The 18 lawmakers say the Justice Department has been "remarkably incurious" about Berger's decision to remove documents relating to the Sept. 11 commission's inquiry into his role in helping prevent terror attacks during the Clinton administration.

After searching the national archives and a search of Sandy Berger’s home there were documents still missing.

Drafts of a sensitive after-action report on the Clinton administration's handling of Al Qaeda terror threats during the December 1999 millennium celebration are still missing, officials and lawyers said.

Officials said the missing documents also identified America's terror vulnerabilities at airports to seaports.

At the national archives, Sandy Berger was seen stuffing papers in his pants and even in his socks in 2004.

Berger claimed any document removal was inadvertent. Stuffing documents in ones pants and socks doesn’t sound inadvertent.

Besides, if it was inadvertent, why did Berger agree to pay a fine for his actions? In addition to the fine, Berger was prohibited from access to classified government materials for three years.

The irony of this is that Sandy Berger could be once again be National Security Advisor should a Democrat be elected to the White House in 2008. His three years would be up long before then.

The polygraph test is too little too late. Even if he fails the test, Berger will continue to ‘get away’ with his crime just like his former boss Bill Clinton always 'got away' with his misdeeds.

Must be nice to be a Democrat in Washington knowing that your actions will not be seriously prosecuted.

Link here and here.