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Gary J. Byrne has devoted his life, and risked it, to serve his country - as a member of the US Air Force, a uniformed White House Secret Service officer, and a federal air marshal. And he believes it is his patriotic duty to do anything he can to prevent Hillary Clinton from becoming president of the United States. As someone who guarded the Oval Office during the Clinton presidency, Byrne, in an exclusive interview with The Post, tells how he witnessed "the Clinton machine leaving a wake of destruction in just about everything they do." He says he has...

<p>FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON ON NOT CAPTURING BIN LADEN: 'At least I tried. That's the difference between me and some, including all the right wingers. They ridicule me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed'...</p>

Senate Armed Services Committee members, from left, Sen. John McCain, Ariz., Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. leave a closed-door hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2006 to discuss detainee legislation. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

ABC has changed its "The Path to 9/11" television special, set for a commercial-free broadcast Sunday and Monday, because of pressure over the message it carries, according to a report on a television blog site. The network heard from a number of leading political figures, many of them Democrats, who complained of alleged inaccuracies and bias in the production, according to the report in the Los Angeles Times' CalendarLive.com website. The report said the five-hour docudrama also is in the middle of an information war between a left-wing organization that wants changes made in the film and conservative blogs defending...

WASHINGTON - A furious Bill Clinton is warning ABC that its mini-series "The Path to 9/11" grossly misrepresents his pursuit of Osama bin Laden - and he is demanding the network "pull the drama" if changes aren't made. Clinton pointedly refuted several fictionalized scenes that he claims insinuate he was too distracted by the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal to care about bin Laden and that a top adviser pulled the plug on CIA operatives who were just moments away from bagging the terror master, according to a letter to ABC boss Bob Iger obtained by The Post. The former president...

THE charge against US senator Hillary Clinton is that she cannot keep the same position on an issue. She has faced that accusation on predictable, national subjects such as Iraq and taxes. As a story unfolding in Brooklyn reveals, the senator is also capable of turning on the smallest of items. Even, it seems, on a single patch of grass. Brooklyn loves green things — recall the novel, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Yet the borough is chronically short of green. Brooklynites watched for decades as the bits of lawn around Manhattan’s Battery Park City spread north, so that now...

Primary front-runners shun debates ALBANY, N.Y. There's just over a week to go until New York's September twelfth primaries. You wouldn't know it by the number of debates. The front-runners in the four statewide races at stake have participated in just three debates. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, facing a Democratic primary challenge from anti-Iraq war activist Jonathan Tasini, has so far refused his pleas for any such showdown. Meanwhile, state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who is battling Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi for the Democratic nomination for governor, has participated in just one face-to-face debate. The one-debate format has also...

I told you people yesterday and the day before of a movie, a mini-series running on ABC on September 10th and 11th, called The Path to 9/11 and I told you that I have the DVDs. I also told you because I am in touch -- I am poor when I'm in New York -- I do not have a DVD player. I don't. My apartment's got an old media room in it, it's got a laser disk player in it, but it doesn't have a DVD. Well, actually it has a DVD player in it, but the TV doesn't...

Clintons take her campaign to the fair SYRACUSE, N.Y. Former President Bill Clinton says he's not pressuring his wife to run for president. The former president made comments at the State Fair yesterday, where Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was capping a three-day swing through New York farm country. The trip has served to boost Clinton's visibility in the state's Finger Lakes wine region and other rural parts of central New York, a predominantly Republican region where she would need to do well if she runs for president in 2008. Former President Bill Clinton said he quote -- "didn't have a...

I’m hearing all kinds of disturbing, though predictable, stories about a Clintonista offensive against “The Path to 9/11,” an ABC documentary written and produced by Cyrus Nowrasteh ("Into the West"), and directed by David Cunningham ("To End All Wars").  I haven’t seen it yet (although I hope to this weekend), but it is already drawing rave reviews from people who have (the piece is reviewed at FrontPage, here).   Apparently, the documentary recounts the bureaucratic bungling and lack of action against al Qaeda that was pervasive prior to the September 11 atrocities.  It is by no means, I understand, pro-Bush.  It...

NEW YORK — Just over half of Americans believe Sen. Hillary Clinton is prepared to be the first female president of the United States, according to a new FOX News poll. In addition, Clinton is the preferred choice of Democratic voters for their party’s 2008 presidential nominee; on the Republican side, former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani barely edges out Ariz. Sen. John McCain for frontrunner billing. Opinion Dynamics Corporation conducted the national telephone poll of 900 registered voters for FOX News from August 29 to August 30. The poll has a 3-point error margin. A slim 51-percent majority of voters...

Once upon a time, smart Democrats defended globalization, open trade and the companies that thrive within this system. They were wary of tethering themselves to an anti-trade labor movement that represents a dwindling fraction of the electorate. They understood the danger in bashing corporations: Voters don't hate corporations, because many of them work for one.............................. To see the difference between then and now, just look at the Clintons. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hillary Clinton sat on Wal-Mart's board; and when Sam Walton died in 1992, Bill Clinton lauded him as "a wonderful family man and one of...

U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton Will spend much of the next several days in the Finger Lakes region. Clinton will be in Penn Yan Wednesday morning to announce the expansion of a small business initiative in Yates County. From there, she'll head to Canandaigua for a Farmer's Day celebration at the Wine and Culinary Center. Wednesday night, Senator Clinton will deliver the keynote address at a reception at the Ventosa Winery in Geneva with Democrats from Ontario, Seneca, Yates, and Wayne Counties. Thursday, Clinton will discuss enhancing economic development opportunities along the Erie Canal at a stop in Palmyra before heading...

"New York Gov. George Pataki, left, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, center, and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., tour the site of the World Trade Center disaster, in this Sept. 12, 2001, file photo. This year will mark the fifth anniversary of the attacks."