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Lest we forget:

GARY ALDRICH

Gary Aldrich’s performance as a white-collar crime investigator vaulted him into the most prestigious FBI job in the nation, protecting the White House first under George Bush and then Bill Clinton. When Clinton was sworn in, red flags popped up like spring tulips. Besides the juvenile shenanigans of skirt-chasing and trashing out America’s First Home, Aldrich discovered the Clintons were actively avoiding background checks on employees at every level, especially with concern to drugs. Later, it became obvious America’s security institutions were being ignored and dismantled as well.

Aldrich weighed his options. Should he say nothing? Or for love of country, stand up, blow the whistle and face the wrath of the most powerful man on Earth and his battery of very corrupt staffers and goons? He’d seen the Travel Office scandal. He knew about the stolen FBI files. And he certainly knew the history of the Clinton political machine, leaving a 20-year trail of figurative and literal dead bodies. Yet Aldrich chose nation first, exposing the Clinton regime in his book Unlimited Access.

Immediately, the full weight of the renegade Clinton government was brought to bear. Aldrich was relentlessly libeled and slandered by a never ending procession of Clinton servants and thugs. George Stephanopolous repeatedly called Aldrich a “pathological liar.” Mike McCurry called the book “pure fiction” and a “piece of garbage.” The doubts were sown. Instead of investigating, the media dutifully piled on. Pressure inside the FBI was exceptional as well, though Aldrich politely names few names. And his relatively insulated family life was gone forever. Aldrich became a pariah in a town that gives no quarter. After all, where does a scorned and soiled FBI agent get his next job?

And how did Time handle Gary Aldrich’s noble stand? They repeatedly labeled Aldrich’s claims as “unsubstantiated rumors,” making sure readers knew he was “backed” by conservative groups funded by Newt Gingrich allies, his publisher sold books by a “Los Angeles police officer who beat Rodney King,” and his publicist was connected to Bob Dole and Paula Jones. They even rumored Aldrich refused Congressional hearings to maximize book tour profits. Over the next few years, of course, virtually every aspect of Aldrich’s book was proven true except for the name of the hotel Bill Clinton used to shag babes. He apologized for that one.

Aldrich did far more than reveal the Sex Toy Christmas Tree and White House bathroom nookie. He exposed a drug-infested bunch of constitution-trampling criminals, who should have been tossed out at the least, tried for treason and jailed at worst. His entire life was upended, and his reputation mercilessly attacked. Gary won’t say anything, but the strain on his life, family and marriage could not have been greater. But ask him if he’d do it again, this noble man answers, “Of course. It was my destiny. It was my obligation. How could I do anything else?”

When Coleen Rowley came forward, the press escorted her on gilded lilies, leading the national applause. Aldrich? Time Magazine made sure Gary Aldrich felt the maximum pain for his sin of defiance. And he never made the cover.

http://www.americandaily.com/article/1400