What do you do when you are afraid of being called to task for mistakes. Blame someone else of course. With the release of the 9/11 commission set for this week, a months old investigation into whether Samuel Berger, the former White House national security adviser removed inadvertently took copies of several versions of an after-action memo on the millennium bombing plot from the Archives last fall.
Note the important word - Copies. Got that. Copies. Not originals.
The vein-bulging wild eyed groupies on the right immediately went into full "throttle" mode.
Tom DeLay, the House Republican leader, called it "a third-rate burglary", a reference to the Watergate scandal. "Berger's theft and destruction of classified documents is not 'sloppy', it's gravely serious," he said. "It is a national security crisis right now."
Un huh. Copies of copies are missing and it's a national security crisis. Makes you wonder what he would think if say a "president" didn't pay attention to security memos. I'm sure that's ok, but misplacing copies, now that's something to be concerned about.
If this is a "third-rate burglary" does that make what happened in Florida a FIRST RATE FELONY?
Democrats questioned the timing of the leak, which came months after the investigation began, on the eve of the Democratic convention and the final report of the September 11 commission.
"I do think the timing is very curious, given this has been under way now for this long," said Tom Daschle, the Senate Democratic leader. "Somebody leaked it, obviously, with an intent, I think, to do damage to Mr Berger, and I think that's unfortunate."
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