Gerard Van der Leun can relate to Sandy Berger. If only he had been able to spin like Sandy when he was caught shoplifting science fiction books as a 14-year old. Yes, Down My Pants. Oh, Like You Haven't?
During the hours I waited in my room for my father's arrival and judgment, I went over all the possible defenses I could muster for stealing the precious science-fiction documents and stuffing them down my pants. But I was drilling a dry hole. I didn't have any. But that was only because I was a filcher ahead of my time. That was only because my government at that time had not supplied me with role models like Clintonista-Kerryite Sandy Berger who has, it would seem, purloined my filching technique and spent some days stuffing classified documents down his pants at the National Archives.Yes, "down his pants."
Here's Andy McCarthy's take on the Berger case. Seriously.
Posted by dan at October 16, 2006 8:36 PM