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In reply to the discussion: Secret Service Association Calls Author of New Clinton 'Swiftboat' Book A Liar [View all]pnwmom
(110,225 posts)contradicts some of his stories in this book. So either he was lying then or he's lying now.
Also, his low level job didn't allow him close access to the President.
He's a liar spouting garbage nobody should be swallowing.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/christophermassie/former-secret-service-agents-book-on-the-clintons-contradict?utm_term=.dnVQNvbpnn#.kuRl7jDvBB
Reached by BuzzFeed News on Tuesday, a spokesperson for Gary Byrne said that the author will happily explain the alleged issues cited in this article when he begins his book tour - as well as his repeated efforts to protect the president from his personal misconduct and in some cases from his wife. After a series of follow-up questions, the spokesperson did not clarify why Byrne could not explain the discrepancies on Tuesday.
Byrne himself hung up the phone on a BuzzFeed reporter after being asked why he wouldnt explain the discrepancies, saying I am working on a response to a couple things right now and I dont have time to talk on the phone for one. Reached again, he said, Weve taken care of it and youll just have to see what it is when you read the whole book.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/hillary-bill-clinton-secret-service-224578#ixzz4CEkxjCgU
The book has rankled current and former members of the Secret Service, who dont like anyone airing their business in public but who also take issue with Byrne inflating his role. Byrne was a uniformed officer in Bill Clintons White House. But thats the lowest level of protection within the White House and around the president.
People familiar with West Wing security laugh at the idea that Byrne or any uniformed officer ever would have walked in on Bill Clinton anywhere, whether in a meeting or, as a New York Post article over the weekend claims, in the middle of a make-out session in the Map Room with the late daughter of former Vice President Walter Mondale. The Secret Service presidential detail would have stopped him. (That affair was a well-worn rumor during the Clinton years, though strongly denied by Eleanor Mondale, who died of brain cancer in 2011.)
The inner perimeter is 100 percent controlled by the presidential protective division, said a former supervisor of the presidential protective division, who asked not to be identified by name.
And if Byrne or any uniformed officer had been posted near a room the president entered, he would have been moved at least 15 yards away, to the outer edges of the security bubble not quite what Byrne describes in his book: I stood guard, pistol at my hip, outside the Oval Office, the last barrier before anyone saw Bill Clinton, according to the Post, which has been teasing excerpts of the book.
SNIP
