Former national security adviser Sandy Berger removed classified documents from the National Archives in 2003 and hid them under a construction trailer
Has anyone ever heard an MSM reporter anywhere come close to speculating what he stole and WHY he stole it? Wouldn't you think someone would be curious about what would be so incriminating that it was worth commiting a federal crime to cover up?
Like, I dunno, how his boss spared Bin Laden?
John Fund, in an editorial for today's Wall St. Journal finally asks just that question:
What could have been so important for Mr. Berger to take such risks? Was he trying to airbrush history by removing embarrassing information about the Clinton administration's fight against Osama bin Laden? As columnist Ron Cass has noted with dry understatement, "Bill Clinton has great sensitivity to his place in history and to accusations that he did too little to respond to al Qaeda." Last year the former president blew up when Chris Wallace of "Fox News Sunday" asked him, "Why didn't you do more to put bin Laden and al Qaeda out of business when you were president?"
Richard Miniter, author of "Losing bin Laden," notes that in 1996 President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan wrote Mr. Clinton a letter offering to hand over bin Laden, then living in Khartoum. A draft of that document was seen on the desk of a Sudanese official by then-U.S. Ambassador Tim Carney. The document itself has never been found
