Angry Hillary threw book at Secret Service agent

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com ^ | June 7, 2003 | By Paul Sperry

[judicial meanz]

WASHINGTON – In a fit of rage, former first lady Hillary Clinton threw a book at a Secret Service agent, hitting him in the back as he was driving her here in a limousine during the 1996 campaign, former Secret Service officers and agents tell WorldNetDaily.

She accused the plainclothes agent of "eavesdropping" on her conversation with another passenger in the back seat of the limo, the agents say. The missile she hurled was a painful message for him to mind his own business.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

"The book hit him in the back, and it wasn't lobbed – she was angry," said a retired uniformed Secret Service officer familiar with the incident.

"She was under the impression that he was eavesdropping on her conversation," he added. "Here he's the driver, but he was eavesdropping? I don't know how you get around that."

He said there was no center divider in her vehicle.

"It was in a limo," he said. "There's no separation in hers, not the one she was in."

The veteran officer, who helped coordinate security in advance of President Clinton's trips, says the book was in the back of the limo. "It was something that she was carrying."

He said both Clintons viewed Secret Service personnel as "Republican spies," since many of them worked in the previous Republican administrations. And they were "very skeptical of us."

Another retired Secret Service veteran, a plainclothes agent assigned to Clinton's security detail, corroborated the book-throwing account. "Yeah, it's true," he said, without elaborating.

Though retired from the service, both White House veterans have found jobs in the Homeland Security Department, and they asked that their names be withheld. Attempts to reach the driver assigned to Hillary's protective detail, also retired from the service and working in another federal agency, were unsuccessful.

A Washington Metro Police detective also recalled hearing of the incident at the time, adding that the former first lady "was pretty sh--ty to the Secret Service guys."

Phone calls to Clinton's office were not returned. The New York senator is on a book tour.

The Secret Service officer who did presidential advance said she often spoke in "unacceptable language to officers and to agents."

He said the lack of respect stemmed in large part from an overriding suspicion allegedly held by the Clintons that agents doubled as Republican plants, relaying dirt to the first couple's political enemies.

Cutting security posts

"When they came into office, because the Republicans were in for so long, they thought everybody in the Secret Service was a Republican spy," said the Secret Service veteran, who calls himself an Independent.

Soon after they took over the White House, the Clintons had agents removed from sensitive areas and permanently eliminated their posts, he says.

"They requested specific posts be removed so that agents in the uniformed division were out of earshot of the conversations," he said.

"For instance, inside the mansion itself, I know of at least two [posts] that were relocated," the former agent added. "One was relocated away from the residence; one was relocated away from the Oval Office."

He said Secret Service brass told agents to keep an "arm's distance," as much as they could, from the Clintons.

"Even on details, they wanted us where we weren't visible," he said.

"We were all spies, all spies. I mean, it was a big joke," he said. "We were giving each other secret names, like 'Agent X, it's time for you to be relieved from your post for right now,' as if we were Soviet agents or something."

The former first lady is said to be considering a run for the White House in 2008.

Her alleged book-throwing tantrum does not fit the cool and controlled demeanor the freshman senator conveys in public.

But early in the Clinton administration, Newsweek reported that Hillary had thrown a lamp at the president in a fit of anger. She later denied the incident took place while suggesting, ironically, that the Secret Service spread the story

[arasina]

Hellary and Baal? LOL! You are QUICK and talented, Paul!

[MeekOneGOP]

hehe ! Thanks. Yes, I saw TWO thumbnails of the same Dubya image and was curious. I've posted that one a number of times yesterday and today.

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[Publius6961]

This is news?

[Terry Mross]

Let me get this straight. She thinks ths SS agents don't like her so she throws stuff at them and talks to them like they're dogs. Guess that's how she wins friends and influences people.

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[lavaroise]

She accused the plainclothes agent of "eavesdropping" on her conversation with another passenger in the back seat of the limo, the agents say. The missile she hurled was a painful message for him to mind his own business.

You can say he has done his job of taking the bullet for Hillary, except it came from herself!

Yep, the princess of darkness must have been desperate for a job, with the agent more useful than her, even for target practice. Evil woman.

[Stultis]

She proceeded to fly into a cursing tirade and made him drive around the block, calling him every four-letter word in the book all the way around the block, and made him pull over right in front of the church so she could make her grand entrance. She's just a foul-mouthed witch.

I hope to God some secret service agent did make an audio tape of an incident like this, and that it's sitting somewhere in a box address to RNC headquarters and labeled: "Do not open until October 2008."

[goldilucky]

Thanks! This woman is just revolting to look at. When I saw a preview of her on the Barbara Walters interview last week, I couldn't believe how huge Hillary's behind and hips are. It looked like they had to be squeezed to fit in that seat!

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[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Wow! This is definitely signage text for upcoming Hillary Book Tour FReeps!

"WARNING TO HILLARY'S SECRET SERVICE AGENTS GUARDING HER TODAY: DUCK!!!!!!!!"

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I got to know a guy through another completely different social circle who was VERY close-mouthed about his job from which he'd retired. It was all I could do to pry it from him that he was a retired Secret Service agent having served since guarding Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 campaign (i.e. Chicago convention riots, et al). All he would do when I said stuff like, "I bet you've seen a lot more than you'll EVER be able to talk about, huh?!" would be to wink and smile. This friend of mine, who'd retired when George HW Bush left the WH, told me that the Secret Service personnel serving the Clinton WH years (with whom he kept contact after retiring) really did loathe them but their code of honor of course dictates that they will not say ANYTHING about the people they're assigned to guard, either now or later (until they die, I would guess).

[cherry_bomb88]

I was thinking something more like this would be appropriate for chicago:

"Please don't come home, Hillary"

[Squantos]

Yeah on her detail someone yells gun then 12 agents all bend down to tie their shoes at once . Obvious hate for the "Big Itch"............

Stay Safe !

[strela]

As if to strike a quick terror into them, by this time being the first assailant himself, Moby Dick had turned, and was now coming for the three crews. Ahab's boat was central; and cheering his men, he told them he would take the whale head-and-head, -- that is, pull straight up to h(er) forehead, -- a not uncommon thing; for when within a certain limit, such a course excludes the coming onset from the whale's sidelong vision. But ere that close limit was gained, and while yet all three boats were plain as the ship's three masts to his eye; the White Whale churning h(er)self into furious speed, almost in an instant as it were, rushing among the boats with open jaws, and a lashing tail, offered appalling battle on every side; and heedless of the irons darted at h(er) from every boat, seemed only intent on annihilating each separate plank of which those boats were made. But skilfully manoeuvred, incessantly wheeling like trained chargers in the field; the boats for a while eluded h(er); though, at times, but by a plank's breadth; while all the time, Ahab's unearthly slogan tore every other cry but his to shreds.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Sounds good to me. If the FReepers in DC can handle 3 signs at once, then we surely can! :-)

[irish guard]

I know a secret service agent pretty well and he is so dedicated to his job, he would not even have mentioned this to the press. This guy clearly was ticked and went outside the secret service's tradition by saying anything. I am surprised he did that. I am not surprised it happened.