Sandy Berger: Clinton Protector

Matthew Yglesias reports that word around Washington is Sandy Berger is telling former Clinton administration foreign policy officials not to work for the Barack Obama campaign. If they do they will be shut out if Hillary wins the White House. No one should be surprised by Berger's lack of ethics. The man did sneak classified documents out in his pants.

Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, a former White House national security adviser, plans to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, and will acknowledge intentionally removing and destroying copies of a classified document about the Clinton administration's record on terrorism.

Berger's plea agreement, which was described yesterday by his advisers and was confirmed by Justice Department officials, will have one of former president Bill Clinton's most influential advisers and one of the Democratic Party's leading foreign policy advisers in a federal court this afternoon.

Berger has always been about protecting the Clintons. He needs Hillary to win in order to maintain power. He can't get confirmed by the Senate and no other candidate will have him work in an unofficial role.