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pnwmom

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22. We know Byrne is a liar, because his sworn testimony in the Ken Starr investigation
Thu Jun 23, 2016, 05:32 AM
Jun 2016

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 wouldn’t explain the discrepancies, saying “I am working on a response to a couple things right now and I don’t have time to talk on the phone for one.” Reached again, he said, “We’ve taken care of it and you’ll 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 don’t like anyone airing their business in public — but who also take issue with Byrne inflating his role. Byrne was a uniformed officer in Bill Clinton’s White House. But that’s 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

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A critique SusanLarson Jun 2016 #1
So you are saying the Secret Service agents are lying? Kingofalldems Jun 2016 #8
Did you? SusanLarson Jun 2016 #10
It rebuts his entire story. Kingofalldems Jun 2016 #11
Rebuttal with actual facts is a powerful thing SusanLarson Jun 2016 #13
They have no obligation to present anything. Kingofalldems Jun 2016 #17
Exactly. Hostile attacks from the right will Hortensis Jun 2016 #26
They rebutted with facts. The primary fact is that he was a low level employee pnwmom Jun 2016 #23
The publisher (Center Street) seems to specialize in bullshit. Dr Hobbitstein Jun 2016 #14
We know Byrne is a liar, because his sworn testimony in the Ken Starr investigation pnwmom Jun 2016 #22
This story has been floated by right wingers for years now BainsBane Jun 2016 #24
The US Navy and people who served with him refuted the swiftboating against Kerry. MH1 Jun 2016 #2
Yes, all too many had been livid with Kerry for BlueMTexpat Jun 2016 #3
Ironically, the thing that bothered me most about the Kerry swiftboat attack was that TrollBuster9090 Jun 2016 #4
How Was That RobinA Jun 2016 #5
It was an obvious line of attack because they used EXACTLY the same line of attack TrollBuster9090 Jun 2016 #16
Yeah, it's a bummer when your candidate exhibits way too much honor. Paladin Jun 2016 #9
As I said above, my comment was in no way a reflection on Kerry as a man, a war hero, and a TrollBuster9090 Jun 2016 #18
They don't have anything to offer so they produce stories. Thinkingabout Jun 2016 #6
but but but if it is printed it must be true dembotoz Jun 2016 #7
Is this the same publisher as the Swiftboat people? Kingofalldems Jun 2016 #12
No. Dr Hobbitstein Jun 2016 #15
No, but my guess is the same ghostwriters were used. nt TrollBuster9090 Jun 2016 #19
BTW, I was just told in this thread that the Clintons have to prove their innocence. Kingofalldems Jun 2016 #20
I saw that. They don't have to 'prove' their innocence. But it's fair to expect that TrollBuster9090 Jun 2016 #21
That tactic didn't didn't work too well to those who were accused by Joe McCarthy. still_one Jun 2016 #25
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