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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Jonah Goldberg:
Now, it's certainly defensible to say that this is the "most obvious" explanation. But it is flatly ludicrous to say that this is probably the "only" explanation. Berger is a Clinton alum. So are his chief spinners, including Lockhart and Lanny Davis. Davis's rule -- he even wrote a book on this -- is to dump damaging info at the best moment possible. I know several Republicans who think this is a classic Lanny Davis move. Berger's in trouble. The news is going to come out eventually, perhaps during a much worse moment during the presidential campaign. Why not leak it now and say that the Republicans leaked it in order to distract from the 9/11 report? The Clintonites were brilliant at this sort of pre-emptive spinning.
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Berger is not running for office, so why would he care when it comes out? As I think I proved earlier, I'm willing to consider that someone has a motive other than what Marshall suggested, but Goldberg's idea makes no sense.
And Berger's not in that much trouble if, after six months, the FBI hasn't bothered to interview him.
