Posted on 12/22/2002 8:46:33 PM PST by doug from upland
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I really don't think "America knew all this about the Clintons" as the only real stuff (dirt) that came out about the Clintons during this time was coming out of the National Enquirer (i.e. Gennifer Flowers, etc.). And nobody believed those stories had any merit...... 'til later. As it turns out, they had the scoop..... but the electorate paid no attention.
Battle of the beltway buttinskis - February 25, 2002
Silver goes to New York Sen. Hillary Clinton for her treatment of police officer Ernest Dymond. Last fall, Sen. Clinton and her entourage reportedly rolled through a security checkpoint at Westchester County airport -- injuring Dymond as he tried to stop them. A Secret Service agent was driving Sen. Clinton, en route to a fund-raiser, in a large black Ford van. According to Dymond, the agent was on his cell phone as he motored through the sensitive checkpoint (the airport was on high alert for terrorists). Dymond was forced to shout and bang his shoulder into the van to make it stop. He told The Washington Times that Clinton's driver was "quite agitated" when asked to show his identification. Dymond, who never received a word of apology from Sen. Clinton or anyone else on her staff, was taken to a hospital for treatment of bruises.
Monday, Nov. 5, 2001 1:02 p.m. EST Battle Damage Assessment: Hillary Cop vs. Delta Force
Seymour Hersh's New Yorker magazine report claiming that 12 Delta Force members were wounded in an Oct. 20 raid on a Taliban leader's complex was roundly debunked yesterday, both by the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Tommy Franks, as well as Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Richard Myers.
Gen. Franks said the injuries were in fact mostly bumps, scratches and bruises and Gen. Myers reported, "My belief is that every soldier that came back from that particular raid is back on duty today."
That's more than can be said of Westchester County Police Officer Ernest Dymond, who remains sidelined by injuries sustained a week before the Delta Force raid, when he tried to stop a van carrying New York Senator Hillary Clinton as it blew past a local airport security checkpoint.
"I thought we might have a terrorist," Dymond told the Washington Times two days after the accident.
Officer Dymond's ongoing disability prompted one political wag to remark to NewsMax off the record, "I guess getting in Hillary's way can be more dangerous than fighting the Taliban."
Hillary Watch - The Week of October 22, 2001
Get Out of Her Way! Hillary and her U.S. Secret Service entourage rolled through a checkpoint at Westchester County airport in their rush to make it to a fundraiser in Syracuse, in the process injuring a policeman who tried to stop them. Police Officer Ernest Dymond, a 19-year veteran of the force, was one of three uniformed officers manning the sensitive checkpoint when the security detail for the junior senator from New York approached the airport. The Yonkers airport, like many other airports in New York and throughout the country, is on high alert for any sign of terrorist activity. Unfortunately, Mrs. Clinton’s van approached the checkpoint at about 35 mph. According to Officer Dymond, the driver was talking on a cell phone as Dymond yelled and threw himself into the van for him to stop, and the vehicle finally came to a halt about 100 yards beyond the checkpoint. Officer Dymond described the agent driving the car as "quite agitated" when asked to show his identification. The officer was then taken to a hospital for treatment of bruises. "I didn’t know if we had a terrorist," Officer Dymond said of the Secret Service driver, "and once I found out who he was, I was even more agitated that he, of all people, should have known." Detective William Rehm of the Westchester County Police Department said a prior arrangement had been worked out with the Secret Service for the police to escort Sen. Clinton’s van from the airport entrance to a hanger. "Why didn’t they wait for the escort?"
Senator Clinton's Motorcade Runs Security Road Block, Injuring Policeman
Posted by dave_aiello on Oct 16 2001 5:30AM
from the rules-don't-apply-to-Hillary department.
On Sunday, Cablevision News 12 reported that New York Senator Hillary Clinton's motorcade injured a Westchester County police officer when it attempted to bypass a manditory security checkpoint at the Westchester County Airport. This story was publicized on a few New York City radio stations yesterday, but it took a little while for us to locate, due to the fact that it was reported by a regional cable news outlet that we do not receive in Central New Jersey.
Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2001 4:16 p.m. EDT No Apology From Hillary for Still-Injured Cop
A Westchester County police officer who was injured while trying to stop New York Senator Hillary Clinton's van after it blew past an airport security checkpoint 16 days ago, has yet to receive an apology from her or anyone on her staff.
"I can tell you, no," Officer Ernest Dymond told NewsMax.com Tuesday, when asked whether Mrs. Clinton had contacted him to express any concern over the injury that has rendered him unable to return to active duty for more than two weeks.
Dymond declined to describe the extent of his injury or predict when he thought he might be able to return to work, saying, "Our department has a policy that all information go through the public information officer."
The 19-year police veteran did explain that previous reports placing Mrs. Clinton in a limousine when her car sped through the Westchester County Airport checkpoint he was manning on Oct. 14 were inaccurate.
"She was not in a limousine. She was in a full-size Ford conversion van - and that made it even more suspect to us," Dymond said.
"I didn't know if we had a terrorist," the temporarily disabled cop had previously told the Washington Times.
"The van went by me and we ordered them to stop and it continued going and we continued to yell to stop," Officer Dymond told NewsMax.com. "At that point I banged as hard as I could on the side of the van to let the driver know he had to stop."
Despite his harrowing encounter with the nation's most-famous elected Democrat, the publicity-shy policeman said he has turned down several requests for media interviews, explaining, "I've had my 15 minutes of fame."
In fact, reporters in New York and nationwide have overwhelmingly ignored the incident, raising questions about possible pressure by Sen. Clinton's office.
A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton declined to return NewsMax.com's call requesting comment on why she hadn't contacted Dymond to express regrets for his injury.
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