It is confirmed that Sandy Berger, the guy who stole classified documents from the National Archives (whoops! how’d that happen?), destroyed them and lied about it, has been hired as an adviser to Hillary Clinton.

Sandy Berger, who stole highly classified terrorism documents from the National Archives, destroyed them and lied to investigators, is now an adviser to presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. Berger, who was fired from John Kerry’s presidential campaign when the scandal broke in 2004, has assumed a similar role in Clinton’s campaign, even though his security clearance has been suspended until September 2008. This is raising eyebrows even among Clinton’s admirers.

‘It shows poor judgment and a lack of regard for Berger’s serious misdeeds,’ said law professor Jonathan Adler of Case Western Reserve University, who nonetheless called Clinton ‘by far the most impressive candidate in the Democratic field.’

Adler told The Examiner that it is ’simply incomprehensible to me that a serious contender for the presidency would rely upon him as a key foreign policy advisor.’

He added: ‘If Senator Clinton becomes the Democratic nominee, at some point she will begin to receive national security briefings that will include sensitive information. At such a point, continuing to keep Berger on board as a key advisor, where he might have access to sensitive material, would be beyond incomprehensible.’

Sandy Berger got precious little press over his covering-up and under-cover activities. He also got precious little punishment for it, especially when you put it in reference to what others have gotten for much less than stealing and destroying classified documents about an enemy while we are at war. I’m sure that has something to do with the presses love-fest with the Clintons. They have thus far been able to come out of the Sandy Berger scandal (such as it was since no one ever heard much about what he actually did!) relatively unscathed.

John Kerry distanced himself from Berger when it was first discovered what he had done. Berger can’t practice law – he lost his license. He can’t find a job. So why would Hillary hire him as an adviser when he has that much baggage he’s bringing with him to her campaign? He has kept mum on anything the Clintons may or may not have had to do with his nefarious activities.

Lets just ponder this a nano-second. Could it be that keeping him close and paid keeps him quiet?

Just throwing that out there for consideration.

h/t Stuck on Stupid

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