Clinton Implicated in Air Force One Sex Attack

NewsMax ^ | 03/16/03 | Carl Limbacher & NewsMax.com staff

[Pokey78]

Ex-President Bill Clinton "sexually molested" a female steward aboard Air Force One and was later forced to apologize to the woman, a bombshell new book by White House whistleblower, Lt. Col. Robert Patterson reveals.

The identity of the woman, an enlisted member of the Air Force, is being protected by Lt. Col. Patterson. But the searing new account of a commander-in-chief preying upon a military subordinate could spell trouble for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, who, as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, would have jurisdiction to investigate the incident.

In "Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America's National Security," the former presidential aide says that in 1997 he got a call from Lt. Col. Mark Donnelly, an Air Force One pilot and commander of the Presidential Pilot Office.

"We got a problem," Donnelly said. "One of our female stewards claims she was approached and touched inappropriately by President Clinton and she's upset."

Lt. Col. Donnelly said the attack happened "in one of the galleys on Air Force One. Apparently he cornered her."

Lt. Col. Patterson said he was distressed at the news. "I knew the woman Mark was referring to. She was bright, cherry and beautiful. She was also an enlisted member of the United States Air Force - and had just, apparently, been sexually molested by the commander in chief."

Donnelly told his colleague that the Clinton assault victim was "really upset but she doesn't want this to get out. She just wants an apology."

Patterson said he approached Kris Engskov, the president's personal aide, about arranging a meeting where Clinton would acknowledge the sexual misconduct and offer an apology.

"Two weeks later," Patterson recalled, "Kris walked into the compartment where I was seated on Air Force One. He said quietly, 'We got them together, the president apologized. She seems fine with it.'" Just to be sure, Patterson said, he confirmed that the apology had indeed taken place with Lt. Col. Donnelly.

News of Clinton's Air Force One sexual assault of a military enlistee comes at a particularly awkward time for the former first couple. Sen. Clinton has just completed tour of upstate New York military installations and has been full of praise for the military since she assumed the Armed Services post in January.

Adding to the potential fallout, news of the ex-commandeer-in-chief's sex attack on a female officer bears an eerie resemblance to reports from female cadets at the Air Force Academy in Colorado, who in the last few weeks have complained that male superiors pulled rank to get them into compromising situations, then sexually assaulted them.

Reacting to the burgeoning scandal, Secretary of the Air Force James G. Roche has vowed to investigate and take action.

"I don't want young women to feel that they have to make that kind of humiliating sacrifice to become officers," he told the New York Times on Sunday. Still, despite Secretary Roche's pledge for a top-to-bottom investigation, it's not clear that allegations by Air Force personnel against the ex-commander-in-chief would be part of any probe.

Though Lt. Col. Patterson's report of the sexual assault by Clinton is the first leveled by a female military officer, two other women have reported being attacked aboard Clinton's plane.

In 1995, the Washington Post revealed that Clinton's 1992 campaign had paid $37,500 in federal campaign matching funds to Kimberly Moore, head of a Little Rock accounting firm, who was forbidden to discuss details of her allegation under terms of the settlement. Campaign aides told the Post that Moore had complained about unwanted advances by a senior member of Clinton's staff rather than the president himself.

But in 1998, campaign plane flight attendant Christyne Zercher came forward with allegations that Clinton had fondled her breasts and repeatedly invited her into the plane's lavatory with his pants unzipped.

Sen. Clinton could not be reached on Sunday for comment on the new sexual harassment charges in Lt. Col. Patterson's book.

[Stopislamnow]

Here's something to make ya feel better.

No way in hell Hitlery will run for president with this guy still around.

[NonValueAdded]

No way in hell Hitlery will run for president with this guy still around.

Yesssss, and that is why there is no downside for the Hildebeast on this one. She can either play up the abused spouse / victim angle or she can grab this assault as the last straw and jettison the slick one "with honor." She even gets to play up her committee assignment. Pardon me while I hurl.

I knew someone who was the real-life version of the Cheers sitcom's Sam Malone character. Lot's of parallels to Billy Boy. There has to be some sort of name for this syndrome. I think everyone associated with Slick Willie has already come to grips with this behavior and ignores it for their own self interests.

With today's death blow to the UN, having her husband as the next Secretary General suddenly becomes a liability and might just prompt her sudden outrage at this latest revelation. Time for her to cut her losses. There goes her dream of them being king and queen of the world.

Deliver us from evil ...

[GOPJ]

No surprise here...

Surely this doesn't surprise anyone.

[Reactionary]

"The book has no value....therefore I call it a hoax."

You haven't even read the book.

[aruanan]

Who was it in that photo aboard a plane who was getting her thigh groped by Clinton?

[happygrl]

I just want to live long enough to put dog feces on his grave.

[Kay Soze]

I hate Clinton bump

[Jimmy Valentine]

That is exactly the way Leon Panetta described Clinton. Words to the effect that he always made sure that Clinton had plenty of company and was never alone; particularly with a woman or in a car.

Regards,

[InvisibleChurch]

"really upset but she doesn't want this to get out. She just wants an apology."

the left will say: She got what she wanted; why bring it up again?

[InvisibleChurch]

When someone told him to 'grow up' he thought they said 'grope'.

[jejones]

Someone needs to write "A Clinton Portrait" in the style of Copland's "Lincoln Portrait."

[RightOnline]

Just because YOU call it a hoax........whoever the hell you are............doesn't mean it IS a hoax.

Given a choice of trusting the word of a fellow former AF officer/pilot or trusting your kneejerk appraisal, I'll trust the author.

By the way.........think for two seconds about what happens to someone who is not only a military officer (Clinton WAS the CinC) but working in a highly responsible position close to the President.....writing a tell-all book or otherwise going public while that President is still in office. Don't be so damned naive.

[Samwise]

I am not defending the President, only the truth. There has been so much bullsh*t spread around on this guy and so much that's questionable, it's hard to believe anything anymore.

You see, this is where we differ. That former President has spread so much bull**** around and done so much that is questionable, that it's hard for me not to believe anything anymore.

[Quilla]

With the exception of a blurb in US News & World Report, this book isn't getting much coverage from the mainstream. I have found this additional quote from the book that I haven't seen posted on FR:

"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. It left me slack-jawed that one of his major campaign themes could be such an obvious, whopping lie. * * * "

[Samwise]

Oh boy, do I remember Clinton saying that! What I do not understand is why no one ever called him on it. He even gace the Chinese the technology to aim those suckers at us.

[eeriegeno]

Gennifer Flowers

Monica Lewinsky

Cristy Zercher

Elizabeth Ward Gracen

Paula Jones

Kathleen Willey

Nancy Hernreich

Susan McDougal

Debra Schiff

Sherrie Densuk

Dolly Kyle Browning

Beth Coulson

Marilyn Jo Jenkins

Juanita Broaddrick

Marsha Scott

Bobbie Ann Williams

Sally Perdue

An un-named stewardess aboard Air Force One

Naw, this guy doesn't have a problem, it's the rest of the world.....

[orchid]

Anything by Ted Nugent or, after the golden showers, "I'm proud to be an American."

[OperationFreedom]

you think? hmmmm.... interesting angle...

[Michael.SF.]

Count me as another one who feels we need to move on regarding Bill Clinton.

Newsmax is dribbling out pieces of info from this book to continuously keep his name in the forefront of scandal:

Thursday ----- Bill lost the Football

Friday ------- Bill watched golf and delayed attack

Saturday ------ Bill gropes another one

Enough is enough. We failed to get him on real charges, primarily because of weak trent Lott combined with the democratic party willing to endorse treason and leachery, as long as it is their treasonous philanderer. Continued hurling of further examples of this mans vulgarity, corruption, sleaziness, ad nauseum, serves no real purpose other then as confirmation of how much we despise the man.

Bush/Ashcroft have made it clear that they are not going after the Clintons? WHY??????

Until we know the answer to that question, maybe we should trust Bush/Ashcroft and try to let go of them ourselves.

My thought on why is easy............ 900 FBI files.

We cannot defeat them with slander, gossip, inuendo. We have to defeat them with a common sense approach at the ballot box.