The Great Sock Caper

Josh Marshall raises an interesting point. While some GOPers are racing to insist that Sandy Berger did something horrible - like Tucker Carlson who insists Berger stripped files of all relevant papers (gee, those would fit in socks?) - the 9-11 Commission insists they had all the material to look at. If nothing was missing that affected the 911 panel's ability to work - I mean, besides the fact that the president tried to make certain they knew as little as possible - I don't get the charge by other hardliners.

Again, if Berger did something wrong, he deserves appropriate sanction. But all this extreme rhetoric suggests that it's less a matter of the gravity of what Berger did, and more a case of people with an agenda trying to pump a dimestore balloon into a hot air extravaganza. If a story has legs, it has them without huge amounts of spin. Only when a case lacks merit does it need all this aid to turn into a big event.