The Sandy Berger story continues — or, rather, it’s the degree to which it doesn’t continue that is the story. R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr. has it in his syndicated column today:

This autumn a congressional committee made an astounding discovery regarding the contents of Mr. Berger’s socks. The archives had failed to catalogue the materials that they gave him to review. No one aside from Mr. Berger has any idea what he took from the archives. He may have doctored documents. He may have destroyed documents. There have been many distinguished former government officials who lived to write their version of the history they participated in. Sandy Berger is the rare government official who has lived to erase history. A polygraph test might reveal how much history he erased.

Mr. Berger’s lawyer, a veteran Clinton smog artist, Lanny Breuer, insists there is no “evidence” that his client did anything wrong. That is classic Clinton obfuscation. Mr. Berger was caught stealing classified documents from the National Archives. For a former national security adviser to do such a thing is without precedent. Mr. Berger is also a proven liar — he turned around and said he did take the documents from the National Archives. All this constitutes “evidence” that Mr. Berger has done something very wrong.

A lie detector test may give us a sense of how much wrong he did. Mr. Berger should live up to his 2005 agreement and take the test. The Justice Department should enforce the rule of law.

Under his plea deal, Berger can potentially regain his access to classifed documents on April 1st of 2008. As a former high ranking official in the first President Clinton’s administration, one must wonder what position a second President Clinton might give him in her administration. Has she been asked this question?

And good questions to pose to Berger were he ever to take that lie detector test would be:

(1) Were you acting on your own behalf?
(2) Did anyone encourage or pressure you to steal or alter documents?
(3) If so, was it a former boss?
(4) Does his last name begin with “C”?

And so on.

In Hillary’s campaign, the proven malfeasance of Sandy Berger — and the likelihood that what he did is far worse than that for which he was prosecuted — needs to be an issue.

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