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.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Holy....

[DoughtyOne]

[DoughtyOne]

[gulfcoast6]

Bill 'The Evil One' Clinton could have killed 50 old ladies on the steps of the capital and it would have been ok. What a shame, what a shame.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[whadizit]

And, of course, as usual, no Republican, NOT ONE, ever called his hand! Republican strategy dealing with liars and Dems. spewing hate speech has been non-effective.

[ATCNavyRetiree]

C'mon, you destroy our credibility as intelligent conservatives when you publish this garbage. Same with the Vince Foster "murder" conspiracy. Pure garbage, just because you hate the guy, you don't have to stoop this low!

[biss5577]

This is just horrifying--but unfortunately to the same old population of Clinton lovers, no matter what secrets surface he will always be the greatest president. The Clintons are like a cancer, and it scares me to death.

[ATCNavyRetiree]

What is this garbage (picture, or is it a poster)?? C'mon, I am a conservative just like you, but you really make us look foolish and stupid when you publish this trash!

[DoughtyOne]

Well you're the first guy have I've had complain about my demon seed graphic. Thanks for the comment.

[DoughtyOne]

I didn't see this post. Look guy, this is for real. If you wish to ignore it fine, but it's true.

[MHGinTN]

Dissembling and misdirection are very clintonesque. Care to explain where this is trash?... Patterson's experience around x42 is not trash. His writing the book is not trash. Posting the thread regarding the author and the book is not trash. Want to elucidate where you feel the trash is piled? ... And the graphics are fluff, not trash.

[cyncooper]

C'mon, you destroy our credibility as intelligent conservatives when you publish this garbage.

Why don't you point out exactly what is not true in this piece?

[Fitzcarraldo]

CLINTON CRIME SYNDICATE EXILE TO ELEPHANT ISLAND: A MODEST PROPOSAL [Free Republic, March 9th, 2001]

[putupjob]

Clinton will be remembered as a playboy who spent most of his time standing around with his pants at half mast.

It was a dark period for our nation and it has left us unprepared for the current challenges. The clinton administration opened the door for the enemies of the world to attack. His supporters still give him standing ovations, in between the pro Saddam rallies.

[litany_of_lies]

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

Y'know, I REALLY hate that line, and I find it is being used repeatedly by reviewers. That's either because the publisher's liner notes use it (doubtful) or because it's a sneering way for a reviewer to impugn the author in an implied way.

My response would be: "The book records an eyewitness account of a president who crossed lines no other president has ever crossed in compromising national security, lying in court, using the full resources of the government ot attack and impugn enemies...." (could go on, fingers are tired).

[aruanan]

Of course Clinton's political lying and vote pandering was no secret to anybody who followed news reports regularly.

Douglas Oliver apparently doesn't work with an editor. This should have been:

Of course, Clinton's habit of political lying and vote pandering was no secret to anybody who followed news reports regularly.

[ATCNavyRetiree]

No, the burden of proof is on you to prove what is true. A person could make up whatever they want about anyone (just read National Enquirer). I’m just saying that we need to be above all that! That way, when garbage such as this comes out about Bush, we can vigorously discredit it! End of story.

[SierraWasp]

Why is it that some Federal Employees are embarrassed at considerate constitutional conservatives who were sickened by the insult to the US Presidency are so worried, in their obvious state of denial, that said considerate conservatives might lose their credibility in the face of such vile corruption as manifested by Clinton, Clinton, Gore & Reno, Inc.???

It's baffling, to say the least!!!