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BootinUp

(47,141 posts)
Tue Jun 21, 2016, 09:22 PM Jun 2016

Former Secret Service Agent’s Book On The Clintons Contradicted By His Own Testimony

Scandalous details from Gary Byrne’s upcoming book about his time working in the Clinton White House don’t match what he told investigators from Kenneth Starr’s office in 1998.

Originally posted on Jun. 21, 2016, at 6:45 p.m. Updated on Jun. 21, 2016, at 7:11 p.m.
Christopher Massie
Christopher Massie
BuzzFeed News Reporter


Gary Byrne, a former Secret Service agent who worked in Bill Clinton’s White House, tells a dramatic story in his upcoming book about how he personally helped a White House steward dispose of towels stained by semen and lipstick to protect the president from a sex scandal.

That story, as well as another Byrne tells about walking in on Bill Clinton making out with a TV journalist, is different from what he told investigators from Kenneth Starr’s Office of the Independent Counsel in 1998, a BuzzFeed News review of interviews, depositions, and grand jury testimony has found.

In the book, Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience With Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate, Byrne writes that a White House steward named Bayani Nelvis came to him with a stained towel, asking, “Does that look like semen to you?”

But in a deposition on June 25, 1998, Byrne described an encounter with the steward where little was discussed explicitly and he was left to draw his own conclusions. As he told it in the testimony, Byrne was not involved in disposing of the towels.

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Former Secret Service Agent’s Book On The Clintons Contradicted By His Own Testimony (Original Post) BootinUp Jun 2016 OP
figures gopiscrap Jun 2016 #1
An idiot like that probably has all sorts of personal issues The_Casual_Observer Jun 2016 #2
Additional story here... JSup Jun 2016 #3
"very carefully call him a liar" GusBob Jun 2016 #5
I also like... JSup Jun 2016 #7
Byrne was not a Secret Service agent. He was a Secret Service uniformed officer. Big difference EffieBlack Jun 2016 #4
Wonder is Fox news bought up the books yet?? riversedge Jun 2016 #6
Exactly. Them or Newsmax. To giv away free with subscription. Hassin Bin Sober Jun 2016 #9
Unfortunately it's #1 on Amazon. 840high Jun 2016 #11
He's cashing in on the Republicans' cottege industry in anti-Hillary smears. Lord Magus Jun 2016 #8
he is full of **** niyad Jun 2016 #10
The guy was a UNIFORMED SS agent, he never would've been around the Clinton's anyway. joshcryer Jun 2016 #12

JSup

(740 posts)
7. I also like...
Tue Jun 21, 2016, 10:42 PM
Jun 2016

... "which they add has made security harder by eroding the trust between agents and the people they protect".

So not only does he lie but he also shits on the SS.

For money and 'political points'.

Lord Magus

(1,999 posts)
8. He's cashing in on the Republicans' cottege industry in anti-Hillary smears.
Tue Jun 21, 2016, 10:46 PM
Jun 2016

They'll pay anybody who tells them what they wish were true about her. Surprised it's not Regnery that's publishing this bilge, though.

niyad

(113,259 posts)
10. he is full of ****
Tue Jun 21, 2016, 10:55 PM
Jun 2016


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Secret Service K-9 Unit patrol outside the White House on June 13. | Getty
Secret Service veterans denounce anti-Clinton tell-all book

Former agents blast writer Gary Byrne for having 'underlying motives.'

The author of a new tell-all book about Hillary Clinton could never have seen any of what he claims — he was too low-ranking — say several high-level members of Secret Service presidential details, including the president of the Association of Former Agents of the United States Secret Service.

On Tuesday, AFAUSSS, which is strictly nonpartisan, is set to release a statement blasting Gary Byrne author of “Crisis in Character,” saying members “strongly denounce” the book, which they add has made security harder by eroding the trust between agents and the people they protect.

“There is no place for any self-moralizing narratives, particularly those with an underlying motive,” reads the statement from the group’s board of directors, which says Byrne has politics and profit on his mind.

AFAUSSS rarely issues public statements of any kind.

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.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/hillary-bill-clinton-secret-service-224578#ixzz4CEX75Zm4
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joshcryer

(62,269 posts)
12. The guy was a UNIFORMED SS agent, he never would've been around the Clinton's anyway.
Wed Jun 22, 2016, 02:40 AM
Jun 2016

His whole story is made up bullshit to sell books.

Here's another article where former or SS agents who worked with the Clinton's totally trash him: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/hillary-bill-clinton-secret-service-224578

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