Bush Continues Offering Leniency

In yet another example of how the Bush Administration is offering leniency to the problems of the Clinton Administration, David Limbaugh discusses the dangerous precedent of the Justice Department's treatment of former NSA chief Sandy Berger. From trashing the White House to Clinton's questionable pardons (which Limbaugh doesn't mention) to Sandy Berger's kid-gloves treatment, Bush is bending over backwards to treat the former administration leniently. Limbaugh argues that,

because of his particular expertise and the important government position he held, Berger arguably should be held to a higher standard than your common classified document thief. Berger, of all people, should know the importance of protecting sensitive national security information.

Even if Berger didn't hide the documents in his socks or underwear, he was, by his own admission, hiding them. Moreover, as others have pointed out, he revealed his criminal intent by meticulously shredding the documents with scissors.

We now know Berger deliberately took the documents knowing it was against the law to do so. He acted with malice aforethought...Berger had every interest in making the Clinton administration look good in the very area addressed by the Clarke memo. Is it just a coincidence that the documents he took and destroyed pertained specifically to these questions and were unfavorable to the administration he served?

And what have leading Democrats, who made a huge issue of security and the 9/11 Commission in an attempt to pin the blame on Bush, said about Berger's activity? Apart from Clinton laughing and saying, "That's our Sandy," Democrats have been silent. After all, what's a little theft, lying and cover-up among friends?

*Update*
Lorie Byrd at Polipundit adds this:

I also caught a few minutes of Rush Limbaugh on the radio. He played a clip of Bill Richardson defending Berger by saying how he was always somewhat disheveled and unorganized. Rush made the point that the Democrat defense of Berger is that the person in charge of national security under Clinton was sloppy and unorganized. I couldn’t make this stuff up.