TIME Magazine's 1973 Man of the Year, John Sirica was faced with a problem: he was presiding over the trial of James McCord and Frank Sturgis, who were caught burgling the Watergate office of the Democrat National Committee. A plea bargain was offered by the Nixon Administration, but Sirica would have nothing to do with it and rejected it. Instead he sentenced the burglars to the maximum allowed.
As a result, the burglars broke and implicated higher-ups, and the Watergate coverup began to unravel.
Which brings us to Sandy Berger. Does the judge presiding over Berger's plea bargain have Sirica's integrity? Likely not.
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