Roger:

LA Times watch- These are lines from this mornings LA Times editorial on Bergergate.- “The Berger Smoke Screen”…..”Berger has always been a plodder,unimaginative but dilligent”…..”Indeed, it’s striking that Berger’s accusers have yet to supply a motive for his actions”…

…..”His actions are so stupid that it would probably take a genius to explain them. We aren’t hearing from the geniuses yet”

Translation- This is not a story.It is a smokescreen. Don’t investigate the story, they put a small story on page 18 that basically is a synopsis from Bergers lawyers and takes everything they say as fact.Instead of putting a reporter on the story and finding out what his motivations are, I seen 5 to 10 possibilties on this blog alone that at least seem very plausible, the Times is telling us because 2 days into the story there is not a proven motivation there must not be a motivation. So Roger, and everyone else, relax. Berger is sloppy and stupid but this is not a story that should be followed. In fact the only story worth tracking down is the leak.Berger would never be so dumb to think he could get away with this so that proves there was no bad intent. Nixon would never be so dumb to tape his conversations and Clinton would never sleep with an intern when he knew he was under constant investigation. So letsa go on to other topics,except for the timing of the leak story, because after two days of pondering the Mandarins at the Times has told us so.