Former Clinton Aide: Bill Told Outrageous Lies to Win Reelection and Lost the Nuclear Codes

News Pundit.net ^ | 3/15/2003 | Douglas Oliver

[ex-Texan]

Former Clinton Aide: Bill Told Outrageous Lies to Win Reelection and Lost the Nuclear Codes !

This is shocking news this morning as revealed by a "Washington Whispers" report by U. S. News reporter Paul Bedard. The news comes from former military aide Lt. Col. Robert Patterson, who carried the nuclear "football" for President Clinton from May 1996 to May 1998. It is in Patterson's new book: Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America's National Security.

The book crosses a line that no other military aide ever crossed before in condemning his former commander in chief. Click Here for a Full Excerpt.

I quote briefly from the book:

Another shortcoming was dishonesty - not just about golf and extramarital affairs but also about our national security. Such dishonesty said much about the president's priorities. On August 26, 1996, just three months into my tenure, I was accompanying the president in Toledo, Ohio, on one of his many reelection campaign events. I listened to his speech from one of the "hold" rooms offstage. Television images and sound were piped into the room by the White House Communications Agency. I heard President Clinton say, "For the first time since the dawn of the nuclear age, on this beautiful night, there is not a single nuclear missile pointed at a child in the United States of America."

I looked down at the black satchel at my side. "What?" I mumbled out loud. I turned to the military White House doctor along on the trip and asked him, "Did he just say what I think he said?" The doctor shrugged and nodded. It was patently untrue, and anyone with a remote knowledge of military and foreign affairs knew it was untrue.

* * * That autumn, I heard him deliver the line in speeches again and again and again. President Clinton made this claim more than 130 times during the 1996 reelection campaign alone.3 It left me slack-jawed that one of his major campaign themes could be such an obvious, whopping lie. * * *

Of course Clinton's political lying and vote pandering was no secret to anybody who followed news reports regularly. I did not believe the "no-missiles-threaten-us-today" lies when I heard them at the time. But he had a flair for winning the votes of working married couples. Bill Clinton could take any issue, and tie it to the concerns of working families with children. Take any issue, and add in the magic words, " for the children." Lying was just second nature to him. His lies were so smooth, so carefully crafted, and so "larger-than-life."

Amazing, because tying the "for the children" focus was so terribly crude, and so outrageously bold, that it worked time and time again to win votes.

In my humble opinion, Bill Clinton should have been impeached for losing the nuclear codes, and on that basis alone. It was a spectacular violation of our National Security Laws and a cavalier betrayal of the public trust. Clinton's political team working in the White House basement were able to turn the Constitutional process of impeachment for "high crimes and misdemeanors" on its head. They changed the political landscape of America forever with their issue avoidance argument: "It's just about sex."

It is time for people to demand that Bill Clinton just slink away from public view and hide under a rock somewhere.

[DoughtyOne]

Mastercard? No way. Copy it off. Print it out. Have a great time with it.

[deedgirl]

The democrats are masters of misinformation. But the republicans have remain silent for too long.I truly believe it may be to late,if someone doesn't take a stand and tell it like it is.What are republicans afraid of?

[Sicvee]

I think your take on the impeachment makes sense. What I can't understand is why the Democrats including Gore didn't throw Clinton over like the Republicans threw over their guys (Lott, Livingston, Packwood, Nixon). Gore would have easily won reelection in 2000, unless he pardoned Clinton. In the long run, sticking with Clinton was suicide for the Dems. The FBI files must have had something to do with it.
One fallout of impeachment was the Republicans losing the Senate. Slade Gorton, for one, would have been reelected if conservatives hadn't deserted him over his role in the impeachment. And Lott's recent downfall is more due to his role in the impeachment than his gaffes on segregation.

[gaspar]

Your 37 quotes are taken from 1994, and, as I recall, Clinton had yet to ask for a CIA briefing on anything. So how would he know? His tactic was simple: if I don't know anything about it, it hasn't happened.

[RipSawyer]

"So this is a statement that may have technically been true, but was really meaningless from a national security standpoint. In barely the time it takes to make the statement, it could go from being true to untrue."


The world's worst liars are of the type whose words are technically true. I have had some experience with this sort and they are maddening to deal with. A bald faced liar is much easier to combat than one who can tell a lie by using the truth.

[Joy Angela]

More discussion on this topic!!

Ex-Clinton aide reveals Bill lost the nuclear codes

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/865473/posts?page=151,41

[Joy Angela]

"From the officer entrusted
with our nation's nuclear codes:
proof that Bill Clinton cared little
for national security and put every
American in mortal danger "


And that's just the TIP of the ICEBERG

See more from this book
http://www.thbookservice.com/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=C6153

[Joy Angela]

Freepers on Clinton's Trail over at this topic too!


As you wrote, lost nuclear codes, lost nuclear suitcases...

OH MY

The Clintons
are REALLY SCARY!!!

[Dick Bachert]

Gee, the Colonel beat willie to the punch. He'd planned to devote an entire 300 page chapter in his book to his lies (in single spaced 8 point type).

Clintoon's book will be published by Alfred Knopf Publishing.

“Knopf” is 13th Century German for “ incredibly stupid buyer of other peoples’ garbage.” Knopf is a very old publishing house best known for such early classics as

“How to Enjoy The Inquisition” by Father Torquemada
“You Get My Point?” by Vlad the Impaler
“Guillotine Maintenance and Repair” by Citizen Robespierre

JUST OFF THE PRESSES: “Trent Lott’s Guide to Effective Extemporaneous Public Speaking,” “Keeping YOUR Man Faithful and at Home” by Hillary Rodham Clinton and “Martha Stewart’s Handbook for Profitable Investing” (includes Martha’s BONUS SELECTION: “Prison on a Budget.”)

Cumming soon to a dumpster or landfill near you!

[truth_seeker]

"Republican strategy dealing with liars and Dems. spewing hate speech has been non-effective."

Do tell:
What would YOU have done differently?

How would your alternative action plan have been reported in the media, and been perceived by the populace?

And explain how YOUR alternative action plan would have achieved BETTER results?

(I measure "results" by elections won)

My opinion is that Bush's strategy of keeping his focus on the business at hand today (instead of yelping about his predecessor, and misdeeds of yesterday) has put him and his party in good shape, for more victories.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

NEVER FORGET

...T'was FoX News Channel itself...

...that reported the loss of...

...our very own Suitcase NUKE Technology...

...during the surrounding Los Alamos Fires.

NEVER FORGET

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

bump and bookmarked

[Floratina]

I remember quidam, and do remember something about the football. I guess quidam was for real?

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

You have some facts right from the news, you need to catch up on

[Joy Angela]

NEVER FORGET

...T'was FoX News Channel itself...

...that reported the loss of...

...our very own Suitcase NUKE Technology...

...during the surrounding Los Alamos Fires.

NEVER FORGET

One day, ALL the dots will be connected.

May that day happen before,
and not after
Hillary is Crowned Queen.

[GOPJ]

What makes you feel it's untrue? It's quintessential Clinton. You find this hard to believe? What's the worst thing Clinton did in his eight years? This will be easy since you're a conservative like me.

)?? C'mon, I am a conservative just like you...

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...because a Queen HILLARY...

...will be burning all the Dots.

[ladyjane]

Quidam was certainly fun to read and he did seem to know some Washington 'inside' information. I always had the feeling that he was looking for information from Freepers. He'd throw some tea leaves out there and some ambiguous comments, e.g., the suits don't trust him with the football and then he'd sit back and wait for some freeper to post confirmatory information.

[walden]

I read one of those books on the Vince Foster case, but can't remember many of the details. I think your read on it sounds reasonable, though. The corruption I think was known, or suspected, but they didn't have enough to prove it.

What really brought down Clinton, I'm convinced, was the Chinese cash and what they got for their money. Can you imagine if the impeachment had been over that? What the repercussions in the world would have been? That the Chinese communists had bought off a U.S. President? I could be wrong on this, though-- might be some other national security issue.

Does Bush know? I think he knows all about the national security issue, whatever it is, as do the rest of his inner circle-- the details of it would be important as they would affect his foreign policy decisions. Ashcroft? Who knows. I do think Bush made a conscious decision not to dig into all of the old Clinton scandals, botched investigations and coverups-- it wouldn't have done any good, you know. The media would have spun it horribly as the "politics of personal destruction", the Democrats would have screamed, and the Republicans would have been murdered at the midterms. It just would have been extremely destructive, you know, and didn't we all get enough of that during Clinton's 8 years? I think Bush just made the decision that that would not be the best thing for the country. I agree.

[whadizit]

Do you recall any Republican having the nads to challenge BC when he was spewing these lies while campaigning? I do not. We just continued to roll over due to "which way the wind was blowing at the time".