From the June 28 edition of KFI’s Wake Up Call with Aron Bender:
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ARON BENDER: The Association of Former Agents of the U.S. Secret Service has come out against this book, against the idea that you’re dishing this kind of dirt on your years in the Clinton White House. What do you say to critics who basically say, ‘You know what? You’re endangering the people who the Secret Service protects by breaking this trust’?
GARY BYRNE: Sure. I understand that. And the question that I posed to myself in the last year and a half while I was writing this book was where do you draw the line? I understand how important it is to protect these people and what goes on behind closed doors, but where do you draw the line? And clearly I have drawn that line and stepped through a door that there’s no going back.
I understand their anxiety but they’re not being completely honest either, these agents. Because the reason that I’m talking about these things now is because I was compelled to testify. I was the first Secret Service employee to be compelled to testify against a president in a criminal investigation. I was subpoenaed six times. Finally ordered by the Supreme Court Justice [William] Rehnquist to testify. And the Secret Service took very painstakingly steps to make sure it was young officers and agents that went and testified instead of themselves and the senior echelon. They pushed us forward. And they forced us to testify. And now I’m telling my side of the story because I think Mrs. Clinton’s behavior is appalling and I think it’s dangerous for the country.
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By me coming forward I realize I’ve broken a breach of trust and it’s going to make their job harder, but where do you draw the line? And clearly I have.
