What's For Dinner?
Berger's are for dinner tonight. And if Sandy Berger is as dumb as he's playing himself at the moment, he could be hamburger pretty soon.
I read almost every link in this characteristcally long post by Instapundit, and there's a lot in the story to sneer at. Berger says he "inadvertently" took classified documents from a reading room back in October, 2003 when among other things, he stuck some of the document in his pants as he left the room. He was in the room at the request of former Pres. Clinton who asked Berger to review classified material from the Clinton terms to be turned over to the 9/11 Commission. Berger obviously intended to place documents in his pants when he left the room. The inadvertent part could only be that he put the wrong documents in his pants, right? Still with me?
But what I don't get is the why of the story. Why would he do this? He couldn't think he was denying anyone in the government the information as there must have been copies. So was he stealing them to turn over to an enemy? Sandy Berger, International Man of Mystery?
It's too early to tell, I guess. The circumstances don't (at this point) much indicate to me where it's all going to end up.
But still, it's generally bad enough to get caught doing something incredibly stupid -- for Berger to get caught doing it in his pants tells me that inadvertence didn't have much to do with it.