Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Clinton Implicated in Air Force One Sex Attack
NewsMax ^ | 03/16/03 | Carl Limbacher & NewsMax.com staff

Posted on 03/16/2003 1:16:05 PM PST by 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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adulterer; adultery; airforceone; billclinton; bubba; clinton; clintonlegacy; derelictionofduty; enablers; impeachedpresident; itsjustsex; nags; now; putsomeiceonthat; rape; rapist; robertpatterson; serialrapist; sex; sexualharassment; vileman; x42
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-8081-100101-120121-140 last
To: Jhoffa_
I think we should replace all of the Air Force One Stewards with US Marines, trained in mortal combat. I hate to hit on Air Force people...but they aren't prepared to defend themselves. Any good Marine female being approached in such a manner, would have taken his hand and twisted enough to break it. This is the manner you handle these predators with. You can't use laws, or instructions, or morals...they need physical pain and suffering. Thats the only way to correct their behavior.
121 posted on 03/17/2003 10:44:57 AM PST by pepsionice
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Samwise
He even gave the Chinese the technology to aim those suckers at us.

Where is my proofreader when I need her?

122 posted on 03/17/2003 11:48:39 AM PST by Samwise
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 116 | View Replies]

To: RightOnline
It's been two years since that particular CIC left office.
Sure, Clinton was a loser but books like this is a waste of trees.
123 posted on 03/17/2003 4:31:11 PM PST by orfisher
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 113 | View Replies]

To: bvw
"Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny >>Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny Deny<< .... Been off your medication eh?
124 posted on 03/17/2003 4:35:17 PM PST by orfisher
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 91 | View Replies]

To: doug from upland
Oops sorry, you've already been pinged. See how we look out for you! :)
125 posted on 03/17/2003 6:26:43 PM PST by lainie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies]

To: orfisher
Waste of time? I don't think so. "Those who don't learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them." I want as many to know about that walking trash as possible, and any "legacy" he hopes to leave should be known as one of shame and degradation of his office. He abused that hallowed and high office, and it should be shouted from the rooftops. No Clinton should ever hold office again, and maybe......just maybe........Bill and Hillary! will be made to answer for their crimes (and I use that term advisedly; nothing in this article was a "crime", just fabulously bad leadership and disdain for our country's security).
126 posted on 03/17/2003 6:48:23 PM PST by RightOnline
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 123 | View Replies]

To: orfisher
I'm just paraphrasing your boy -- Clinton. That was highly excerpted material.
127 posted on 03/17/2003 6:54:02 PM PST by bvw
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 124 | View Replies]

To: bvw
You insult me Sir. Please do not refer to that wastrel as MY boy. Never voted for him. Never supported him. I just believe my time is better spent reading things other than drivel about a slime bag.
128 posted on 03/17/2003 7:08:37 PM PST by orfisher
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 127 | View Replies]

To: Samwise
What a pig. How psychotic was he? He was the President of the US, didn't he know what was expected of him? I find it incredible how many times he pushed the envelope.
129 posted on 03/17/2003 7:10:44 PM PST by Hildy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Hildy
I've been waiting for some woman's husband to assault him.
130 posted on 03/17/2003 7:13:44 PM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 129 | View Replies]

To: orfisher
You don't admit a mite of confusion in that last statement? I mean, here you spending a peck of time talking about the book that is about a subject that you won't talk about as for it being a waste of time ... it does seem a statement self-contradictory in its own precincts.
131 posted on 03/17/2003 7:28:17 PM PST by bvw
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 128 | View Replies]

To: bvw
You don't admit a mite of confusion in that last statement?

No.
132 posted on 03/17/2003 8:01:29 PM PST by orfisher
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 131 | View Replies]

To: orfisher
Some folks ignore the sex issue -- they say, "hey a powerful man it goes with the territory."

But that's not quite true ... Frank Sinatra, notwithstanding. Sinatra was a Ladies Man and a Man's Man. I know you didn't bring up Sinatra, I did. I mean you could also include King Solomon who had 700 wives -- not up to the Wilt Chamberlain standard, but still that's a whole lot of women for a man.

Yet even if a person is in that camp (and I am not), a smart person will recognize that a Sinatra, say, would treat each and every dame with class. (Speaking to the idealized version of the Boss, but still ...)

In other words -- even a philanderer can show an example of class, of respect for his partners -- can be nice, a gentleman.

Clinton was NO genetleman. He was and is a vile man. The point is Bill Clinton treats each and dame with trash. Examples abound -- enough for a person to generalize a rule. Paula Jones -- trashed. Gennifer Flowers -- trashed. Even Monica -- trashed! "That woman" -- not even a name!

133 posted on 03/17/2003 8:17:55 PM PST by bvw
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 132 | View Replies]

To: Pokey78
We ALL knew as soon as Bubba (the Serial Rapist) left office, these facts would come to light.

Hmmm...Where's Bubbas' Capo, Sidney Blum...? I would stongly suggest that the Col. and the victim NOT FLY...We all know, that strange things happens to Clintons "friends"...8)

134 posted on 03/17/2003 8:48:38 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (Just because your paranoid,doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. :)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bvw
I won't argue with you about Clinton but Sinatra is a poor example in that he was not under a microscope with people out to nail his ass.
135 posted on 03/17/2003 8:50:54 PM PST by orfisher
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 133 | View Replies]

To: kylaka
What Bubba needs is a visit from Liona Bobbit w/ a pair of shears...:)
136 posted on 03/17/2003 8:53:09 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (Just because your paranoid,doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. :)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Old Professer
Sorry...I can't Sqell, either.
137 posted on 03/17/2003 8:57:10 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (Just because your paranoid,doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. :)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: Pokey78
OMG, this man is such a slime. Nothing, however, will touch Hillary, she will get a pass along with the predator she pretends is her husband no matter what evil, illegal acts they commit.
138 posted on 03/17/2003 9:02:13 PM PST by ladyinred
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: orfisher
Now, Now, Hillary, I mean Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton...You know Bubbas' numerous vice...don't get shrill.
139 posted on 03/17/2003 9:07:19 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (Just because your paranoid,doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. :)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 75 | View Replies]

To: orfisher
Sorry...I thought you were DU :|
140 posted on 03/17/2003 9:17:45 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (Just because your paranoid,doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. :)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 128 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-8081-100101-120121-140 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson