Originally Posted By Darkbeer <a href="http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-sandy-berger" target="_blank">http://www.nynewsday.com/news/ nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-sandy-berger</a>,0,5114708,print.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines >>Two days after he was placed on probation last month for taking classified documents, former national security adviser Sandy Berger was accused of reckless driving in Virginia by police who said he was traveling 88 miles per hour in a 55 mph zone. On Wednesday, Berger appeared before the same federal magistrate who had sentenced him on Sept. 8 in the documents case. Deborah Robinson admonished Berger, and she will decide eventually whether to punish him further. The traffic offense occurred while Berger, the former national security adviser to President Clinton, is on a two-year probation handed down as part of his sentence in the document case. He was stopped on Sept. 10, and two days later he informed the probation office of the U.S. District Court that he had been speeding because he was late to a meeting and was unaware of how fast he was traveling. The probation office "reiterated to Mr. Berger" that all violations of the law and probation are taken seriously, the office said in a two-page report to the federal magistrate dated Sept. 28. Berger had been headed east on Interstate 66, a major highway into Washington. Berger's Sept. 8 sentencing capped a bizarre sequence of events in which he admitted to sneaking classified documents out of the National Archives in his suit, later destroying some of them in his office and then lying about it. "I let considerations of personal convenience override clear rules of handling classified material," Berger said at the time. "In this case, I failed. I will not again." <<
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Here is the actual Probation Memo, from the Smoking Gun. <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1005053berger1.html" target="_blank">http://www.thesmokinggun.com/a rchive/1005053berger1.html</a>
Originally Posted By Spree 88...that's nothing. Gore got clocked doing 90 here in Oregon just a couple of years ago.........of course he wasn't on probation so I guess it's ok
Originally Posted By peeaanuut busting someones probation for speeding is as dumb as the 3 strikes law. Uhgh. Our legal system is in serious danger.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Sorry, but driving over 30 miles an hour over the limit while on Probation is JUST PLAIN STUPID!!!!!! Actually, on the vast majority of roads, going over 30 miles an hour over the limit is stupic, period. No, if he was busted for 8 miles an hour over the limit, I could see that as "silly" for busting probation. But when you are on probation, you need to be more careful in general.
