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April 01, 2005

Shredders and Missing Eight Minutes

Instapundit reader Patrick Hynes wonders:

Berger did not destroy (or even attempt to AFAIK) all of the copies of the Clarke report, so what he was trying to expunge can't be anything Clarke said in the report. Must it not be true that Berger was after the marginal notations made on the report by officials who read the particular copies of the Clarke report Berger shredded?

How is Berger's destruction of the handwritten "conversations" that occurred in the margins of those reports any different than Nixon's erasure of eight minutes of audio tape?

Update: James Taranto makes another interesting comparison:

Berger was reviewing the documents to prepare for his testimony before the Sept. 11 commission. For those who think the news media aren't biased, how many stories were published about this actual crime, versus about the "Valerie Plame scandal," which looks now to have been totally phony?

Posted by bubba138 at April 1, 2005 07:33 AM