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These things always get out. In fact, I don\u2019t know how the lid was kept on this for as long as it has been. This has been going on since January. But all of this is intended to draw attention away from Berger\u2019s conduct and its implications. And I can assure you again that if this were about Condi Rice, you wouldn\u2019t hear Gergen or anybody else concerned about the timing of the leak or the AP story. We\u2019d be interested in “the seriousness of the charge.” Sandy Berger, I understand, is toying with a statement. His lawyer and he are sweating over this one, don\u2019t know whether it will happen. Says he wants to make one thing clear: He did not have relations with those documents in his pants, and now he wants to be left alone to go back and do the work for the American people. (Laughing.) Trying to maintain my composure here.BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I just love this timing of-the-leak business. That\u2019s what we gotta focus on. The timing of the leak, not what Sandy Berger did, but the timing of the leak. Nature of the evidence doesn\u2019t matter; seriousness of the charge, irrelevant. So let me ask a question. Can we expect numerous congressional hearings, allegations of obstruction and cover-up from the left? Demands to know if Burglar ever spoke about this with Clinton or Kerry? Can we expect any of this? No, not when the New York Times puts it on page 17, the Washington Post buries it even deeper. Although I have to say CNN was hard on this today. CNN was actually pursuing this today. I must give them credit, and so was Fox.<\/p>\n

Now, you put this on top of Joe Wilson lying about the things he\u2019s lied about — and he was on CNN today this morning, by the way. I mean, I think this shows just how far some of these people will go to protect themselves and destroy their opponents and to hell with the country. I thought that the 9\/11 Commission was about getting to the truth. No, folks, I did. I\u2019m an idealist here and I want what\u2019s best for the country and my fellow citizens and I thought the 9\/11 Commission was not about Republicans or Democrats. I thought it was about getting to the bottom of this and finding out what went wrong so that we can use what the brilliant members of the commission learn in order to prevent something like this from happening again. I didn\u2019t know that this was about protecting former administrations and current administrations and so forth.<\/p>\n

It just isn\u2019t what they taught me in government class when I was in high school. Now, I want to also see — and I know — what\u2019s going to happen here. Let\u2019s just see, though, if this is a major scandal. Let\u2019s just see if it receives one-tenth the attention of the Abu Ghraib Prison abuse scandal. The Ted Kennedys and Carl Levins and Dick Durbins won\u2019t say a word, just as they said nothing about Joe Wilson — and although it may not sound like it, ladies and gentlemen, because I am a highly trained broadcast specialist and therefore very fluent and very linguistic, I still am having some difficulty putting the importance of this in words. Try again: Clinton\u2019s right-hand man at national security is sent to the archives to go through the papers. This man sent by Clinton — and it\u2019s Berger\u2019s own words, he was doing this on behalf of the Clinton administration. There is no “Clinton administration” anymore, at the time he\u2019s ordered to do this.<\/p>\n

So he\u2019s sent over there by Clinton. He sought to derail and obstruct the 9\/11 investigation is what he did. He removed government property in the form of top-secret information and disposed of some of it, presumably the most important, yet damning, information. The conduct of the 9\/11 commissioners over the past several months calls into question the independence of this report, but Berger\u2019s action calls the accuracy of its information into question now. I mean, if this had been Condi Rice, she\u2019d be wearing an orange jumpsuit already. She\u2019d be in the cell next to Martha Stewart. This would be splashed on the front pages of every major newspaper. Democrats would be demanding hearings and trying to tie the conduct to the president.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019ve said, from the investigation into the mythical October Surprise to Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill, all we heard was, ‘The seriousness of the charge is what demands that we take this seriously. The seriousness of the charge is what demands that we investigate this.\u2019 There was no evidence of any October Surprise with Bush (41) going to France. There was no evidence to suggest any of this with Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, just ‘serious charges.\u2019 That serious charge, we had to take it seriously.<\/p>\n

Now, the same parameters are not allowable. This is a serious charge, but, ‘Nah, no, no, no,\u2019 and the nature of the evidence? ‘Nah, no, no, no.\u2019 Now we got to investigate ‘the timing of the leak. According to David Gergen the timing of the leak, that\u2019s the controversy here? That\u2019s the scandal? No, it\u2019s not. What Berger did, what he\u2019s done with what he did, is the scandal. Just want the truth, and if some aren\u2019t interested, we\u2019re going to act even more so.<\/p>\n

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