Anyone who doesn’t appreciate how the Berger bunch has used the fortuitous timing to their advantage must have slept through the Clinton years. The defense is classic. First, the mean Republicans, then the meaningless personal testimonials–“if you knew Sandy Berger like I know Sandy Berger (or Betty Currie). . .,” then the irrelevant–he is an extremely hardworking guy who was only trying to help the Commission (we’re working, working, working here at the White House), and finally (the political use of FBI files, the lost billing records) the removal of the classified documents was “inadvertent.”