Kerry needs to turn this Berger thing around ...

[annxburns]

.... to his advantage.

He should just come out and say "I've learned of the investigation yesterday along with all of you. Sandy was not a paid advisor to my campaign, rather an informal advisor. He has stepped down as such until he can clear this up. Obviously, I take the handling and security of OUR INTELLIGENCE ASSETS very, very seriously. From what I understand, Sandy is cooperating fully with the federal gov't and I hope he continues to do so"

Okay, Berger gets tossed a little, but Kerry can point to the fact that he, unlike Bush and the Plame thing, expects the people around him to adhere to the highest standards and protect the security assets of the country - unlike Bush.

[azmesa207]

1. Kerry needs to turn this Berger thing around

Kerry does not have to do anything Berger did nothing wrong get a grip

[dolstein]

7. Berger did nothing wrong? Are you friggin KIDDING?

By his own admission, he violated protocol by taking personal notes (reflecting the contents of top secret government documents) with him without approval. By his own admission, he "inadvertantly" took copies of top secret national security memos with him. By his own admission, he carelessly discarded some of this top secret material.

Sorry, but at best, Berger is guilty of gross incompetence. That's bad enough in my book.

[KittyWampus]

17. By His Own Admission? Show Us Direct Quotes

you post this false assertion with no evidence to back you up.

We have NO IDEA what actually happened.

[Ronin1]

2. Kerry needs to distance himself. But........

Hard to do when the networks are running the confab around the model sailboat 100 times a day. Not good if the Repubs find he was paid afterall.

[sandnsea]

3. Maybe,

Might be a good strategy. Berger would probably have no problem with it anyway, he'd probably enjoy stuffing it to them for a change.

[WiseMen]

4. Expect more of this from the Rove black ops teams. Only hope

dems Dems have been smart enought to have counter ops and their own
black ops going.

This is the real world guys.

[Nicholas_J]

5. Berger was doing nothin for Kerry while he was doing his report

But for the Clinton Administration. This is nothing that will stick to Kerry.

[IndianaGreen]

6. Berger is an honorable man

Who in the Justice Deparment leaked this stuff about an event that happened back in October?

There is more here than what the media is telling us, and the wrongdoing was not the inadvertent mistake that Berger made, but the leak to the press.

[spooky3]

8. I may be naive but I just don't see voters caring much about this.

There are many worse events that many of them are still not concerned about.

[IndianaGreen]

9. Most voters can't find the English Channel on a map!

and many of them are still convinced that Saddam piloted one of the planes that hit the WTC.

[bobbieinok]

12. 'honorable man'......since when does that make any difference to BFEE???

[hughee99]

10. The freepers will spin this as well

for example "How could Kerry not have know about this until now? How could Kerry not have know that an advisor of his had his house raided by the FBI searching for classified archive documents? Is he incompetent?"... and so forth. I think Kerry's chance to really take advantage of this was gone when it became public from someone other than his campaign. Now it's just damage control. In the end, I don't think it's going to be an issue, but we'll hear about it for the next few days.

[gulliver]

11. I agree. Use it to bring up Plame.

It's such a stark contrast with Bush.

Bush, a sitting president, has two senior officials who outed a covert agent. They are not merely informal advisors. They are in Bush's administration.

[Still_Loves_John]

13. Meh, I'm not really that worried about it.

It's not sexy enough to dominate the news cycle, and it seems more like a case of incompetance than conspiracy. Kerry has enough distance from Berger for the average voter, and once the 9/11 report comes out this thing will get knocked off the news cycle.

I'm sure Rush Limbaugh will be ranting about it for a while, but as long as nothing new develops it won't stay around for very long.

[Beetwasher]

14. Hmm, Are The Chances Now Improved That The Contents Of Those Docs Will Be

made public?

I wonder...

Is Berg taking one for the team? I think this is a possbility that can't be over looked...Stay tuned...

[SaveElmer]

15. This is inside politics

Your average Joe Schmo could care less about this. Kerry should just ignore it. The Repugs are trying to draw him into a fight to keep it in the news. Berger will be cleared (if he hasn't already) and it will go away!

[WillyT]

16. You Want Kerry To Flip The Berger ???

I think that could be used against us, and would be seen as a flop.

GET A FUCKING GRIP!!!

:wtf:

[goodhue]

18. Berger is out . . .

Good riddance to the pro-war apologist who guided Kerry's platform efforts in Miami a couple weeks back. Now if only the platform could be jettisoned as quickly.