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.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

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

In UNLIMITED ACCESS, former FBI agent Gary Aldrich reported much of the same news and it was initially suppressed.

After Clinton's impeachment however, 99% of Aldrich's disclosures were proven to be true.

I expect this book will be treated similarly.

[Vinnie]

Pure garbage, just because you hate the guy, you don't have to stoop this low!

Are you saying this 'no missiles pointing at us' line is untrue. That he didn't say it?

I distinctly remember his State of the Union message when he led with that line. And just a few weeks previous it was announced that China had ICBMs pointed our way.( with MIRV technology he had given them I might add)

I remember looking at my wife and yelling BullSh**!!

[aruanan]

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.

Same for the sentence above with the plague of commas: 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.

[TommyDale]

What? Bill Clinton lied? Who'd 'a thunk it?

[cyncooper]

This is not the National Enquirer. Here's my source and I must say, I find him very credible:

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.

Too bad you don't realize evidently exactly what type of person was at the head of the previous administration. Character matters and you will not find someone who worked closely with President Bush saying he was a liar or dishonorable. It just will not happen.

[stands2reason]

A vet on this thread needs some help in understanding our ex-prez...

[litany_of_lies]

This "missiles pointed" thing was a very clever Clintonian statement.

My memory is that the missiles of our enemies technically weren't pointed at us, but that in 10-15 seconds of programming, they could be.

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.

[katana]

Fella, the exerpt is from a just published book written by an Air Force officer who carried the "football" for two years. That is a responsibility given to very few and makes what he says uniquely credible.

There's another Clinton preparing to run for the White House who is probably more genuinely evil than the first. Frankly, I don't care any more about Bill except that the more the American public is informed about his term of office the less they should be inclined to vote for his wife.

[Poohbah]

On one occasion, Bubba was in such a hurry to get back to the White House that he left the guy carrying the football out on his own--in a somewhat crime-ridden part of Washington.

Clinton just never took the national security aspects of his job seriously.

[stands2reason]

Hey, I used to buy the mainstrean press spin on "Clinton-bashers" as well, but then I actually looked at the evidence myself. Some people are still afraid to.

[river rat]

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

An "intelligent conservative" could not possibly find fault with the truth that heaps well deserved scorn and ridicule on the lying bastard Clinton....

I PERSONALLY heard the lying Clinton make the claim that there were no missles aimed at America....

This is not the first revelation that he knew it was a lie when he said it...

You must have been too busy, educating yourself to be an "intelligent conservative" to realize what was going on for those eight dark years of the Criminal's administration..

WAKE UP!
Semper Fi

[mewzilla]

Are you familiar with Regnery? This book wouldn't have passed muster with their legal eagles if it was a crock.

[ladyjane]

Does anyone remember the comments made by quidam a few years back? He mentioned the 'football' and that Clinton no longer had access to it. I don't remember the details but perhaps someone else does.

[MHGinTN]

It might have been technically true of the old Soviet missile arsenal (I wouldn't even believe that, give x42's penchant for taking a proven enemy's word for something without verification, like with North Korea and nuclear technology), but it was a blatant lie regarding China because as noted above their few MRVed missiles were still aimed out way, exclusively!

[sweetliberty]

Clinton lied???? I am so shocked! Just shocked I tell you!

God protect this man from the reaches of Arkancide and bless him for his boldness and let his message be widely heard.

[DAnconia55]

Member since 03/09/03

I suggest you read the archives, especially about Klinton and even the Foster murder before you start spouting off.

[jacquej]

LadyJane, I was here, and I remember it, absolutely and clearly!!! He didn't specify who it had been reassigned to, but implied it was owlgore.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree. The one thing Clinton had going for him that no other President had, was that his personal behavior, criminality, sadition and possible taiterous actions, were so outlandish that the natural reaction was for people to react just like ATCNavyRetiree did, rejection based on the shere magnitude of the reality.

I doubt even you and I will ever know or comprehand how bad it truly was. I don't think the full extent will ever be revealed and accepted.

[DAnconia55]

Here's a good place to start, if you're interesting in learning, and aren't a DU disruptor.

All about Klintoon -Click here

[cynicom]

I doubt many of us that are "unintelligent" here on FR agree with you.