Sandy Berger charged with mishandling top secret documents in preparation for the 9-11 commission. I will refrain from more filtering and jump to a conclusion, except to say that if the charges pan out it is disgraceful and unacceptable. Stronger words would and will be used by others. The preemptive question or conclusion is that the timing is convenient. This happened some time ago and is just now coming out. Of course the excuse is that it is under investigation. The question should be, is if there were witnesses to the activity, what were they doing not preventing it? If the charges are false and it may be questionable as to the evidence ever being firm, then it seems that it supports the charge that there is an agenda somewhere, to politicize the control of intelligence in the form of passing the buck from the chain of command. This seems to be another distraction that will preemptively cloud the responsibilities for failure. If this seems to be an obtuse charge, it is not more obtuse than the perceptions that there was ever evidence supporting a preemptive war.
As disappointing as I will be with the possibility that charges have any validity** or even explanation, they should still be seen in the light of what the administration has done and more important what we can’t find out they have done.
This post was written with only the background that CNN was developing an prior, to the best of my attention, before anyone questioned the timing of this. I provide the following unread link.
I guess I should credit Dave Ross with some input to this thinking. He asked to compare the importance of Sandy Berger misplacing outdated notes with the administration not reading memos that were very pertinent. The link for his morning commentary is not yet available.
* Trojan Goat: A version of a scapegoat but preemptive and covert, also partisan or with another agenda than intelligence or the truth.
** Berger has admitted to some of the charges but the extent and/or intent is in question.
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