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Related: About this forumFormer Secret Service Agent’s Book On The Clintons Contradicted By His Own Testimony
Scandalous details from Gary Byrnes upcoming book about his time working in the Clinton White House dont match what he told investigators from Kenneth Starrs 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 Clintons 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 Starrs 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
Byrne was not a Secret Service agent. He was a Secret Service uniformed officer. Big difference
EffieBlack
Jun 2016
#4
The guy was a UNIFORMED SS agent, he never would've been around the Clinton's anyway.
joshcryer
Jun 2016
#12
gopiscrap
(23,756 posts)1. figures
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)2. An idiot like that probably has all sorts of personal issues
This book is a piece of shit.
JSup
(740 posts)3. Additional story here...
Read this this morning but didn't bother posting it.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/hillary-bill-clinton-secret-service-224578
GusBob
(7,286 posts)5. "very carefully call him a liar"
And prove it too.
... "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'.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)4. Byrne was not a Secret Service agent. He was a Secret Service uniformed officer. Big difference
riversedge
(70,187 posts)6. Wonder is Fox news bought up the books yet??
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,325 posts)9. Exactly. Them or Newsmax. To giv away free with subscription.
840high
(17,196 posts)11. Unfortunately it's #1 on Amazon.
Lord Magus
(1,999 posts)8. He's cashing in on the Republicans' cottege industry in anti-Hillary smears.
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 ****
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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 groups 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 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.
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.
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