Left with a Loony Berger

The Wall Street Journal seems to have stripped President Clinton's National Security Advisor of any rational, albeit corrupt, motive for cutting up top secret documents with a pair of scissors.

We understand that Mr. Clinton had a good laugh when he first learned that Mr. Berger had smuggled very sensitive documents out of the National Archives, saying, "That's our Sandy", or something of the sort.

Mr. Berger is perhaps the most outlandish presidential appointee since Franklin Delano Roosevelt elevated the National Press Club member with the most noticeable alcohol intake to be one of the three Commissioners in charge of the District of Columbia.

May Providence continue to protect the District and the Nation from such presidential hubris.

From a WSJ Opinion Journal article, The Berger File :

The Berger File [/] Sandy Berger didn't destroy documents with notes in the margin. [/] Friday, April 8, 2005 12:01 a.m.

Some people won't let a bad conspiracy theory go. We're referring to those who loudly assert that former NSC adviser Sandy Berger was trying to protect the Clinton Administration when he illegally removed copies of sensitive documents from the National Archives in late 2003. [ ... ]

The confusion seems to stem from the mistaken idea that there were handwritten notes by various Clinton Administration officials in the margins of these documents, which Mr. Berger may have been able to destroy. But that's simply an "urban myth," prosecutor Hillman tells us, based on a leak last July that was "so inaccurate as to be laughable." In fact, the five iterations of the anti-terror "after-action" report at issue in the case were printed out from a hard drive at the Archives and have no notations at all.

"Those documents, emphatically, without doubt--I reviewed them myself--don't have notations on them," Mr. Hillman tells us. Further, "there is no evidence after comprehensive investigation to suggest he took anything other than the five documents at issue and they didn't have notes." Mr. Berger's sentencing is scheduled for July, and Mr. Hillman assures us Justice's sentencing memo will lay out the facts and "make sure Mr. Berger explains what he did and why he did it." Meanwhile, conservatives don't do themselves any credit when they are as impervious to facts as the loony left.

So, if we do not want to be like the loony left, we are left with a loony Berger.

And Mr. Clinton's legacy is left with a loony National Security Advisor.