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What was in Sandy's pants

Vodkapundit:

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Berger was the National Security Advisor who was so hidebound by legalities, that he told his boss not to accept Sudan's offer to turn over Osama bin Laden to us back in 1996:

"The FBI did not believe we had enough evidence to indict bin Laden at that time, and therefore opposed bringing him to the United States," said Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, who was deputy national security adviser then.

Eight years ago, Osama wasn't exactly on the top of our National Worry List. But we knew of him, we knew of his declaration of war against us, and we knew he'd already attacked us. So who cares if we didn't have enough to indict him? There are quiet ways of permanently dealing with our enemies, assuming we can get our hands on them.

Clinton had the chance, served up on a platter. Sandy Berger worried about the legal niceties and, five years later, 3,000 Americans were killed in New York, in Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon. And some of the blame for that rests at the document-stuffed shoes of Sandy Berger.

One of the National Security Advisor's jobs is to tell the President that something nasty has to be done to some even nastier person. Berger, more concerned with legalities than with national security (which should be the Attorney General's job, not the NSA's), told Clinton to let Osama go.

And yet not even that is what bothers me.

What bothers me – and what should bother you – is that the man who was too concerned with the law to get Osama when he had the chance, was rather cavalier about the law when it came to shoving classified items down his 46-inch waistband.

Sandy Berger covered his ass, quite literally, with the papers which, just might, show how he inadvertently helped Osama bin Laden murder the asses of 3,000 of Berger's fellow Americans.