According to a former officer who guarded them, Bill and Hillary Clinton forced the Secret Service to undermine itself by ‘systematically destroying’ the rules that were put in place for their protection.
Best-selling author Gary Byrne in his new book writes that the Secret Service was nearly undone by serving the Clintons with ‘blind loyalty’ which they took advantage of for their own gain.
Secret Service agents were allegedly forced to collude with the Clintons in the ‘Chinagate’ campaign finance scandal in 1996 by ignoring the contents of brown paper bags brought into the White House by Chinese officials.
Secret Service leadership was mistakenly thinking that the Clintons were ‘invincible,’ Byrne writes.
‘The view from the front lines, however, was that something, somehow, was bound to ensnare them. It was simply a matter of the right scandal,’ he writes.
Byrne served in federal law enforcement for nearly 30 years first in the Air Force Security Police, then in the Uniformed Division of the Secret Service where he guarded the Clintons.
Byrne’s book, ‘Secrets of the Secret Service: The History and Uncertain Future of the US Secret Service,’ due out in January, paints a picture of an agency in crisis that could be a danger to President Trump.
Working for the Clintons: The Secret Service served the Clintons (pictured on Inauguration Day) with ‘blind loyalty’ which the presidential couple took advantage of for their own gain, a former officer has revealed
The ‘invincible’ Clintons: Byrne previously reported that Hillary was so demanding that she drove many Secret Service agents to drugs and alcohol
The problems, Byrne writes, date back to the 1990s when the Clintons were in the White House.
Because they would ‘continually seek to systematically destroy the protocols that ensure protection,’ putting the Secret Service in an impossible position.
Byrne said that ‘the agency had decided to err on the slide of blind loyalty and that was nearly its undoing.’
Byrne writes when referring to the Secret Service’s responsibility for investigating money counterfeiting: ‘How can a law enforcement agency maintain its integrity, say in policing counterfeiting, while admittedly having compromised integrity in the area of protection?’
Secret Service did a ‘good job of keeping itself out of the various investigations into the Clintons such as the Whitewater controversy, a scandal in which the couple was investigated over their failed business venture, Byrne says.
However, it was impossible to do so with Chinagate; where the Chinese government allegedly used shell companies to donate to Democrats to buy access for Chinese goods to be imported to the US.
The Clintons allegedly forced their agents to collude in the 1996 ‘Chinagate’ scandal in which the Chinese government was accused of using shell companies to donate to Democrats to buy access for Chinese goods to be imported to the US
Scandal: In 1995, Ng Lap Seng has photographed meeting President Clinton in Georgetown. The Secret Service also knowingly allowed Chinese officials – disguised in civilian clothing – to meet with White House personnel and logged them in as ‘business guests.’ Seng avoided prosecution over claims he gave illegal campaign donations
The Secret Service ‘knowingly allowed Chinese generals, disguised in civilian clothing, to meet administration personnel at the White House and logged them as ‘business guests’ at the administration’s request so as to avoid transparency.’ The agency also ‘willfully ignored the contents of the generals’ paper bags brought to those meetings’.
The Clinton White House was later accused of accepting bribes. However, without a paper trail, it was very difficult to prove it.
Byrne’s previous book, ‘Crisis of Character,’ was just as damning about the Clintons. In that book he claims that Hillary was so demanding that she drove many Secret Service agents to drugs and alcohol and said Hillary once threw a Bible at an agent on her detail and hit him on the back of the head, Byrne claimed. She also once gave Bill a black eye during a fight, he writes in the book.
In recent years, the Secret Service has been battered by scandals that have raised grave questions over its competence.
An employee in 2008 caused an ‘immense’ security breach when they left computer backup tapes on a train in Washington, D.C.
Byrne also claims Hillary once threw a Bible at an agent on her detail and hit him on the back of the head. She also allegedly once gave Bill a black eye during a fight
It wasn’t until 2012 that the scandal came to light. That same year, 12 agents were put under investigation for using prostitutes in Cartegena, Colombia, on the eve of President Barack Obama’s official visit.
Byrne’s book paints a picture of an agency in crisis that could be a danger to President Trump
Eight secret service men quit their posts, while the others were cleared of ‘serious misconduct’, prompting the President to brand them ‘knuckleheads.’
Former Secret Service agents and commentators agreed that it was the worst scandal to hit the organization in decades.
In 2016, an intruder roamed the grounds of the White House for 15 minutes because the Secret Service could not find him.
In a separate bungle, two Secret Service agents including a top member of the President’s personal detail drove a car into White House security barricades after drinking at a late-night party.
In January a senior Secret Service agent in Denver wrote on Facebook that she wouldn’t ‘take a bullet for President Trump.
Kerry O’Grady, the special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s Denver district, said that the then President-elect was a ‘disaster’.
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