[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 43 (Wednesday, April 13, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H1902]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      SANDY BERGER'S DEAL IS SHADY

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Madam Speaker, last year, former Clinton National Security 
Adviser Sandy Berger stole classified documents from the National 
Archives, five copies of an ``after-action'' memo on the 2000 
millennium terror plot, to be precise. He later destroyed, he cut up, 
three of the copies that contained handwritten notes from 
administration officials. Then, he lied about it to Federal 
investigators. The memo was severely critical of the Clinton 
administration's handling of the incident.
  Recently, we learned that Mr. Berger made a deal with Federal 
officials, and the deal was not 5 years in prison instead of 10. No, he 
gets a slap on the wrist in exchange for admitting he lied.
  So let us just make sure we have the score right here. Martha Stewart 
tells a lie about a stock sale; she goes to prison. Sandy Berger lies 
about stealing and destroying national security documents; he gets a 
slap on the wrist. So send the person who lied about money to jail, but 
go easy on the person who lied about stolen and destroyed classified 
documents who tried to cover up the public record on an issue of life 
and death and national security.
  Justice? Sorry to say, not this time.

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