Friday, October 13, 2006

Double Standard Democrats: Libby/Berger


Imagine for a moment that Bush National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley or, say, Scooter Libby, had intentionally exploited his security clearance to steal top-secret documents out of the national archives. Is there any chance that would not be daily front-page fodder for the New York Times? ...Of course, as it turns out, Berger was not content merely to conceal the drafts of the after-action report. He has admitted deliberately destroying some of the documents he took. Unauthorized destruction of classified information...is yet another felony violation of federal law, carrying a potential ten-year penalty...Sandy Berger needn’t worry about ten-year penalties, though...No, Berger is home-free. Next year, when Scooter Libby starts trial on false-statement and obstruction-of-justice allegations that carry potential decades of jail time, Sandy Berger will be starting the second half of his two-year term of probation....The Culture of Obstruction, Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review Online, 10/13/2006

What McCarthy discusses in today's NRO is what drives serious people on the right into a frenzy, the rank prejudice from prosecutors and judges regarding imagined crimes by people on the right and confessed crimes by people on the left. Scooter Libby is being tried on charges related to a crime that was never committed by people who have been openly chastised and ridiculed by the very MSM that can't get enough in its stories about the horrors of the Bush Administration. Sandy Berger is a confessed felon.

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