Posted on 06/30/2004 10:10:04 PM PDT by Gracey
SECRET SERVICE OPTIONS
SECRET SERVICE OPINIONS Forwarded by a former FBI agent (Regardless of their opinions of the 'individual(s'), these guys/gals would 'take a bullet' for their protectees and their 'opinions' are more credible than most.)
SECRET SERVICE OPINIONS: WHAT WAS, COULD HAVE BEEN, AND WHAT IS What WAS:
Hillary Clinton was arrogant and orally abusive to her security detail. She forbade her daughter, Chelsea, from exchanging pleasantries with them. Sometimes Chelsea, miffed at her mothers obvious conceit and mean spiritedness ignored her demands and exchanged pleasantries regardless, but never in her mother presence. Chelsea really was a nice, kindhearted, and lovely young lady. The consensus opinion was that Chelsea loved her mom but did not like her.
Hillary Clinton was consistently rude and abrasive to those who were charged to protect her life. Her security detail dutifully did their job, as professionals should, but they all "loathed" her and wanted to be on a different detail. She was hard work because she was so nasty and mean toward her detail. Hillary Clinton was uniformly despised by the secret service as a whole.
Former President Bill Clinton was much more amiable than his wife Hillary. Often the secret service would cringe at the verbal attack antics that Hillary would use against her husband, the then president. They were embarrassed for his sake by the manner and frequency in which she verbally insulted him, sometimes in the presence of the secret service, and sometimes behind closed doors. Even behind closed doors Hillary Clinton would scream and holler so loudly that everyone could hear what she was saying. Many felt sorry for President Clinton and most wondered why he tolerated it instead of just divorcing his "attack dog" wife. It was crystal clear that the Clinton's neither liked or respected each other and this was true long before the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Theirs was genuinely a "marriage of convenience."
Chelsea was much closer to her father than her mother, even after the Lewinsky scandal which hurt her gravely. Bill Clinton did in fact have "charisma," and occasionally would smile at or shake hands with his security detail. Still, he always displayed an obvious air of superiority towards them. His security detail uniformly believed him to be disingenuous, false, and that he did nothing without a motive that in some way would enhance his image and political career. They did respect him, unlike his wife, but they did not particularly like him and nobody trusted him. He was polite, but not kind.
WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN:
Al Gore was the male version of Hillary Clinton. They were more friendly toward each other than either of them were towards former President Clinton They were not intimate, so please don't read that in. They were very close in a political way. Tipper Gore was generally nice and pleasant. She initially liked Hillary but soon after the election she had her pegged and no longer liked her or associated with her except for events that were politically obligatory.
Al Gore was far more left wing and very hateful, not just politically opposed, to Republicans than Bill Clinton. Al Gore resented Bill Clinton and thought he was to centrist. He despised all republicans. His hatred was bitter and this was long before he announced for the presidency. This bitter hatred was something that he and Hillary had very much in common. They often said as much, even in the presence of their security detail.
Neither of them trusted Bill Clinton and, the secret service opined, neither of them even liked Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton did have some good qualities where Al Gore and Hillary had none in the view of their security details.
AL Gore, like Hillary, was very rude and arrogant toward his security detail. He was extremely unappreciative and would not hesitate to scold them in the presence of their peers for minor details over which they had no control. Al Gore also looked down on them in disgust as they finally observed and learned with certainty on one occasion when Al Gore got angry at his offspring and loudly, in their presence, pointed at his security detail and said "do you want to grow up and be like them." Word of this insulting and demeaning verbiage by the format Vice-president quickly spread and he became as despised and disliked by the secret service as Hillary.
Most of them prayed that Al Gore would not be elected president and they really did have private small celebrations in a few of their homes after President Bush won. This was not necessarily to celebrate President Bush's election, but to celebrate AL Gore's defeat. He was very disliked. Al Gore was not a good and kind person. That he could have been our President may suggest that God was "answering prayers" and looking out for the country with Al Gore's defeat.
WHAT IS:
Everyone in the secret service wants to be on First Lady Laura Bush's detail. Without exception they uniformly concede that she is perhaps the most nice, kind, and genuinely good person they have ever had the privilege of serving. Where Hillary patently refused to allow her picture to be taken with her security detail, Laura Bush doesn't even have to be asked, she offers. She doesn't just shake their hand and say thank you, very often she will give them a kind hearted hug to members of her detail to express her appreciation. There is nothing false about her. This is her genuine nature.
Laura Bush really is this kind of a person and her security detail considers her to be a "breath of fresh air." They actually love her as a human being. They joke that comparing Laura Bush with Hillary Clinton is like comparing Mother Teresa with the Wicked Witch of the North.
Likewise, the secret service considers President Bush to be a gem of a man to work for. He always treats them with genuine respect and he always trusts and listens to their expert advice. They especially like the Crawford detail. Every time the president goes to Crawford he has a Bar-B-Q for his security detail and "he" helps serve them. He eats with them, sits with them, and talks with them. He always asks about their family, the names of which he always remembers, and he of course knows each of them by their first name and calls them by their first name as a show of affection.
They believe that he actually loves his security detail and that he is deeply and genuinely appreciative of their service. They could not like, love, or respect anyone more than President Bush, and most of them did not know they would feel this way until they had an opportunity to work for him and learn that his manner was genuine and consistent. It has never changed in the three years that he has been president. He always treats them with the utmost respect, kindness, and compassion.
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Please pass this on to everyone you know. It is important for everyday Americans to have a true inside understanding of their President and those who would be president. Finally, The secret service still is forming an opinion on John Kerry. They have nothing positive or negative to say that anyone is willing to share as yet. This notwithstanding, they already know what they have in President Bush and they don't want to lose a good thing.
"Well, you don't have to be snippey about it!"
Interesting read.
Just received this from a very reliable source. I'm not shocked at what's written here, but I am surprised that it's in writing.
I am suspicious too but the information on the President and First Lady is consistent with all I have ever read about his father and mother. I remember this only because it always impressed me about the first President Bush.
You have a good point. However, there's no way this type info could be anything but Anonymous. There's not much new news here that our FBI friend that worked in the White House, Aldrich shared in his tell all book. In fact his book was much more severe in his opinion of Hillary than these tidbits.
Only a Sheik would be snippy. LOL
It's been going around for a while.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1148645/posts
I'm just naturally suspect of such things. And if it has the tagline I mentioned earlier, I suspect it was created by spammers who want to harvest e-mail addresses as it makes it's gazillionth round.
I could almost swear I've seen this even a couple of years ago, not sure. But the additional "still forming an opinion about Kerry" at the bottom reeks like a Frenchie.
Have ya ever considered the potential results of Hitlery shakin' her over-limit booty anywhere along either the New Madrid or San Andreas faultlines?
And, as an aside, how about a judicially-ordered dose of necrotising fascii for ol' Saddam? (heh heh heh, but will the Iraqi judge have that much imagination, eh?)
Interesting that this was posted a few weeks ago.... but the title was E-mail.........
I knew most of this except just didn't know that Gore & Hitlary had so much in common. But since it's been mentioned, I see the Howard Dean "Scream" in both of them. It must be a Leftist trait that they inherited from the devil.
P.S. Where did you get your delightful sense of humor?
Do you have abouty?
I have had the joy and honor of speaking with individuals in that career field. Have even gotten career advice that was dead on and very helping.
I can assure you that there is more to them than the guys in the suits. I got to be in an area where the President lands when he goes to our (mine and his) home county a day or so before the President arrived. C-130s and the lot pulling in...teams getting prepared. It was impressive. And I think they can handle more than 19 suits. I can also tell you that I have spoken with folks in that career field and what was written in the main post seems to be felt by many. Yet they are still professional.
Its a shame though, their job sucks as it is...protective details have the worst hours. Advance teams and CAT teams...even worse. But then they get put on the detail of a jerk...and its h3ll. I still remember Kerry calling that SA a s.o.b. on the ski slope earlier this year after Kerry fell down (its not the SA's fault that Kerry sucks on the slopes). I just thought...great...meet Hillary part 2.
I know that this sounds like a VRWC generated letter, geared to smear Bush's competition....but I can tell you, that I know for a fact that most of this is true. Well, except for the Gore stuff. I never heard anyone complain about Gore being "snippy" to the agents. I had heard that they actually liked him, and his wife. (I lived in a neighborhood with all kinds of agents, FBI, CIA, NSA and Secret Service [the "SS"!] and White House employees--who work in any administration; non-political)
It is true that Gore's detail didn't like to work for him, but it was not because he was nasty. It was because Tipper and Al never thought about the trouble they caused the agents by making last minute plans. They did not consider all the work the agents had to go through, when they decide at the last minute to take a moonlight boat ride in a lake, or decide to go out for ice cream at 10 pm at night! And they did it all the time!
The report on Hillary was dead on. I don't know where you got this.....???
Also, it leaves out the fact that Bubba's detail saw many disgusting perverted things...which they did not appreciate.
The bits about Bill being a semi-decent guy & being close to Chelsea do give it a bit more verisimilitude.
Not really, Bill being close to Chelsea could be INCEST, but not verisimilitude.
Chelsea... Hubble?!?
I think you maybe meant "Opinions" in your title not Options
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