CLEVELAND – Gary Byrne worked in the White House during the Clinton administration, but he wasn’t among the speakers invited to give testimony at the Democratic National Convention last week of Hillary Clinton’s character and deeds.
Had he been given the opportunity, his summary of Clinton would have been: “She’s a dictator.”
“There are two sets of rules. There are rules for the Clintons, and there are rules for everybody else,” he said.
Byrne, who protected the Clintons for eight years as a uniformed Secret Service officer, spoke to WND at the Republican National Convention about his bestselling book, “Crisis of Character.”
He responded to the fierce criticism he has received from Clinton supporters and the president of the Association of Former Agents of the United States Secret Service, who denounced the book, saying there is “no place for any self-moralizing narratives, particularly those with an underlying motive.”
Byrne, who was posted outside the Oval Office door for three years, told WND he is taking legal steps to stop what he regards as slander. He does understand why some former and current agents complain he is “talking out of school,” but he said his motive is love of country.
“The reason I am talking out of school,” he told WND, “is because I want the people to know what the truth is about Mrs. Clinton.”
Byrne claims Hillary Clinton displayed a “Jekyll and Hyde” personality, and was verbally and physically abusive to security officers as well as to Bill Clinton, even giving the president a black eye.
“Her ‘brand’ was her only concern. She was a faux leader, all bark, no bite, but in a very real power position as first lady,” he writes in his book.
He noted an exchange that he said typified her:
“Good morning, first lady,” an officer said.
“Go f— yourself,” she replied.
‘What I saw personally’
Politico reported it spoke with several high-level members of Secret Service presidential details who insisted Byrne was too low-ranking to have witnessed what he claims.
Byrne, noting his proximity to the Oval Office, argued that Secret Service agents have shared similar stories of the Clintons with reporters on background, “but I’m putting my name on it.”
“I’m telling you what I saw personally, what I know is true,” he said.
“If it wasn’t true, who would put themselves at this risk and this exposure?”
He said there’s a considerable amount of relevant information he didn’t put in the book, “because it would expose too much of the Secret Service’s operations and inadvertently would hammer people that have gone on with their lives, and I’m not going to do it.”
He said, however, that he’s put some of that information “in the hands of the right people.”
They don’t let just anybody do it
To the “people who are coming out and disparaging me,” he said, it’s important to understand that he got into the Secret Service by taking a lie-detector test.
“The Clintons got where they are by jumping from one scandal and telling lies to the next scandal and telling lies,” he said.
“I was an Air Force security policeman where I was charged with securing nuclear weapons. The Air Force doesn’t let just anybody around nuclear weapons,” Byrne continued.
“The Secret Service doesn’t let just anybody join the uniformed division,” he said. “And the air marshals don’t let just anybody become an air marshal.”
He recently retired as an air marshal.
“As soon as someone from the Clinton administration is ready to take a lie-detector test about her behavior, I’ll be ready to take one about mine,” he told WND.
Byrne explained that he purposely wrote the book without telling anybody.
“I am not asking anybody to come forward. This is my decision. I wanted to get my message out,” he said. “I want to get the truth out. I’m not saying nobody else should do it, but I’m not asking them to step up for me. It’s not fair.
“I think the risk is too great.”
Author Ronald Kessler, who has written his own book on Hillary Clinton’s time in the White House, has defended Byrne, telling the Boston Herald the former Secret Service agent’s description of the Clintons is “right on.”
“It has to do with her character, the hypocrisy of someone who claims to help the country and yet she can’t bring herself to treat other human beings who are less powerful than she is with respect and dignity,” he said. “Someone like that can really get out of control once they get in the White House. They have all that power and they become even more arrogant.”
Kessler said Hillary Clinton “would actually, even recently, tell agents she didn’t want to see them when they were at events.”
“She literally wanted them to hide behind curtains,” Kessler told the paper.
Read more at https://www.wnd.com/2016/07/secret-service-agent-warns-of-dictator-hillary/#tuDsBegrD7BRzWBy.99
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