Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Politicians - Protecting each other?
My guess is that no poltician of either party wants to open up a can of worms and set a precedent of using lie detector tests on their own ilk. In this case, protecting one another clearly transcends party lines...
HumanEvents.com's Political Editor, John Gizzi, writes:
"As to why Berger should now submit to a lie detector test, the Republican lawmakers note that while he was prosecuted for taking documents he admitted to taking, 'questions remain about what other documents he removed.'
Specifically, Davis and his colleagues cite that when Berger visited the National Archives on four occasions in ’02 and ’03, he reviewed highly classified documents -- "some of which were so highly classified Mr. Berger’s own deputy did not have the requisite security clearances to see" in preparation for the 9-11 Commission inquiry into the terrorist attacks of that date.
'Mr. Berger,' they wrote, 'was provided original materials for which there were no copies or inventory. Mr. Berger admitted taking documents on three of these visits. The Archives official who provided the materials to Mr. Berger said she would ‘never know what if any original documents were missing.'"
