A bit more on Berger.
To expand on the post below, all the supposed nefarious motives I’ve heard for this seem ridiculous on their face. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) says that Berger took information on port security from those documents and gave them to John Kerry so he could use them at a photo op soon after the incident took place last October.
That makes no sense. As someone who runs in those circles, I can tell you that there are at least half a dozen Democratic think-tank homeland security mavens who will happily go on about port security with you until you’re ready to strangle them, or even until you do strangle them.
The thought that Kerry needed Sandy Berger to pilfer one of Richard Clarke’s after-reports about the millenium terror alerts to get whatever boilerplate he discussed at this particular press conference is truly ridiculous. And Santorum must know it.
Here’s the transcript of Berger’s lawyer Lanny Breuer on Wolf Blitzer tonight. He makes Berger’s case.
(Scroll down to the phrase “Brian Todd, thanks very much for that report” for the beginning of the interview portion.)
I’d be curious to hear what people think after reading that interchange.
