Old Weird Ward
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Thursday, July 22, 2004
- - - - - Sandy Berger - - - - -
Fire up the 'WayBack Machine, Sherman!
'Way back there, when I was a Radioman in the US Navy, there were really rigid rules about handling classified material. Those materials included, but were not limited to:
Cryptographic material - punched cards, one-time pads, cryptographic machine settings.
Documents - Nuclear policies and procedures, communication procedures, war plans, operations plans.
Information - Sailing dates & times for submarines, operational information about fleet deployments, and a host of other things regarding the operations and operational readiness of the US Navy.
Due to my job, I saw a lot of this stuff, in the raw. Pure data, not conclusions and/or plans formulated from the data.
And it was drummed into me, from the day I started Radio school - "You don't talk to nobody about nothin' unless the Skipper says to you, PERSONALLY, that it's OK."
There was another part of that: "If it is classified, you DO NOT remove anything from the area for any reason whatsoever, except under orders from your commanding officer."
The penalties for breaking these rules were laid out in excruciating and memorable detail, every six months.
So.
Why isn't Sandy Berger sitting in the slammer, moaning at his lawyer, and waiting upon the pleasure of the US District Court for trial on the charges of violating the terms of the agreement that he signed when he became National Security Advisor to President Clinton?
This wasn't "sloppy".
This was deliberate and willful violation of who knows how many laws and regulations regarding the handling of classified documents.
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