Sandy Berger redux

This is the dox-in-sox guy from a year or so ago. He got off with a slap in the wrist. Well, now it's October surpise season, with everybody exposing everybody. So he's fair game again.

Excerpt:

A group of House Republicans called Wednesday for a congressional investigation into the improper handling of classified documents by President Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger.

Berger admitted last year that he deliberately took classified documents out of the National Archives in 2003 and destroyed some of them at his office. He pleaded guilty in federal court to one charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material and was fined $50,000.

Ten lawmakers led by House Armed Services Chairman Duncan Hunter, R- Calif., and Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., released a letter calling for the House Government Reform Committee to investigate.

They asked the committee to determine whether any documents were missing from Clinton administration terrorism records, to review security measures for classified documents and to seek testimony from Berger.

Hunter's spokesman, Joe Kasper, said the Justice Department had asked Congress to hold off on any oversight until the legal case concluded.

I say:

Is this politically motivated? Of course it is. Just like his original crime was. Just like his lenient sentence may have been. Just like... anything you see in the political section of the news is. Got a problem with that?


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