Never in all my years of following political news have I seen such an across-the-board condemnation of any government agency let alone the DOJ and the FBI as I have seen this week. Jack Cashill, a former classmate of mine, has written this week about the institutional corruption that he has watched at the DOJ for the last two decades.
Cashill uses the Sandy Berger thefts of documents from the National Archives to highlight the problems at the DOJ.
Cashill notes:
After Al Gore’s bitter loss in 2000, Democrats across the board have dedicated themselves to bureaucratic sedition, enabled by an equally embittered and increasingly imbalanced media.
The FBI and the Department of Justice, which oversees the FBI, are riddled with leftist careerists, many of them in key positions. The symptoms of rot have been hard to avoid since at least 2004.
That was the year the exploits of former Clinton national security adviser Sandy Berger first surfaced. In the act of reviewing documents before his 9/11 Commission testimony, Berger did some things that would have put you or me in prison.
He swiped some highly classified documents, and then, during a break, stashed them under a trailer at a construction site. He retrieved them at the end of the day and admittedly used scissors to cut the documents into little pieces before throwing them away.
Who was head of the FBI in 2004? One Robert Mueller. Why was there so little interest in Berger’s thefts? Just what was in those documents that would be so embarrassing to the Clintons?
Cashill noted that only unusual persistence from IG Paul Brachfeld brought Berger’s crimes to light. Despite being stonewalled, Brachfeld pestered the DOJ particularly in light of the fact that Berger was testifying in front of the 9/11 commission. Eventually right before the Democratic National Convention, the news made it into the public sphere. The media spun this as Republican campaign efforts to discredit John Kerry and buried the story.
Cashill reported:
On April 1, 2005 – 18 months into an investigation that could just as well have been done in a week – the DOJ issued a press release outlining the Berger case.
The DOJ recommended a $10,000 fine and a three-year loss of security clearance for Berger, which would get him back in the ball game in time for a potential Clinton resurrection in 2008.
As Cashill noted, compare this outcome for a real and highly consequential crime with the media coverage of the “apochryphal” crimes of PDJT and his people.
The rot does indeed run deep.
To read Cashill’s entire piece, click the link below.
The rot at DOJ runs deep