MORE ON THE SANDY BERGER STORY:

What now emerges, by his own admission, is that Sandy Berger was engaged in a clumsy, post-9/11 cover-up of his own third-rate burglary.

Even more disturbing is the cavalier attitude of leading Democrats to this whole sordid affair.

“For all those who know and love him, it’s easy to see how this would happen,” one former White House colleague told The Washington Post at the time.

As for Bill Clinton himself, he couldn’t stop chuckling over the whole thing.

“That’s Sandy for you,” he said at a Denver book signing last summer. “We were all laughing about it on the way over here.”

Who’s laughing now, Bill?

Not Sandy Berger.

Though in truth, he got off pretty light. As innumerable correspondents have indicated, an ordinary federal employee guilty of Berger’s theft-and-lying behavior would have faced felony charges, lifetime loss of security clearance, and near-complete unemployability. For the big boys, though, the rules seem to be different.

UPDATE: Rand Simberg has more questions about what was going on, and wonders why the press hasn’t been very interested in seeking answers.