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Dereliction Of Duty, The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America's Security, By Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson, USAF (Ret. ), carrier of the "nuclear football;" 216 pages, hardcover, Regnery Publishing, Inc. , Washington, D. C. ; $27. 95; available from Frontpagemag.com website and other retail outlets.
This book starts off with the author's account of an incident involving former President Bill Clinton, while he was attending the Presidents Cup golf tournament in Lake Manassas, Virginia, on Sept. 13, 1996, that aptly show's Clinton's irresponsibility regarding the terrorist threats facing this nation.
The Clinton entourage, with Lt. Col. Patterson among them carrying the "nuclear football," the black bag containing the nuclear weapons launch plans and codes which must always be available to the president, had just delivered Clinton to the golf tournament and was standing by while the president enjoyed himself hobnobbing with the celebrities and officials in attendance.
"I had been working for President Clinton for three months," writes Patterson, "but I was already well aware of his passion for golf. Having just returned from three days of campaigning on the West Coast and an early-morning cross-country flight on Air Force One, he was up and at it again. This was the Presidents Cup, the team from the United States versus the world's, and President Clinton wasn't going to miss it. "
Patterson was suddenly summoned to "Roadrunner," the black communications van manned by members of the White House Communications Agency. "On the phone was Sandy Berger, the acting White House national security advisor. Berger wanted me to contact the president. He needed a decision quickly. "
"Major, we're poised to launch air strikes on Iraq and I need the president's nod," Berger told the author. Saddam Hussein had just sent three tank divisions of elite Republican Guards to capture the Kurdish city of Irbil, forcing a mass exodus of tens of thousands of Kurds. While Clinton had publicly declared US "action is imminent" in dealing with Iraq days earlier, he had done nothing further.
When Patterson went to Clinton he was brushed off with, "Tell him I'll get back with him later. " Further calls from Berger were met with similar evasions, and the attack was called off. This was typical of Clinton when confronted with a plan for action against naked aggression by Middle Eastern tyrants.
Again and again, Patterson would learn, when faced with attacks by terrorists on US and allied personnel and facilities around the world, Clinton would talk tough but do little or nothing, preferring to treat terrorist attacks "as a law enforcement issue" and sending the FBI to investigate.
As time went on in the late 1990s, it was becoming more and more clear that a previously little known Middle Eastern figure was the terrorist mastermind behind the numerous attacks on US and allied personnel and installations around the world: Osama Bin Laden. Bin Laden had even admitted publicly that his Mujahedeen fighters were involved in the fighting and casualties inflicted on American troops in Somalia.
In November 1996, Bin Laden confessed, the author writes, "in an interview with the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper to his role in the heavy losses suffered by US troops in Somalia. 'The only non-Somali group which fought the Americans are the Arab Mujahedeen who were in Afghanistan,' he [Bin Laden] said. 'There were successful battles in which we inflicted heavy losses against the Americans. We used to hunt them in Mogadishu. ' "
In the fall in 1998, Patterson states, "The White House Security Room was buzzing... the National Security Council (NSC) and the intelligence community were tracking the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden, the shadowy mastermind of terrorist attacks on American targets overseas. 'They've successfully triangulated his location,' yelled a 'Sit Room' watch stander. 'We've got him. '
"Beneath the West Wing of the White House, behind a vaulted steel door, the Sit Room staff sprang into action. The watch officer notified National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, 'Sir, we've located Bin Laden. We have a two-hour window to strike. '
"Characteristic of the Clinton administration," Patterson writes, "the weapons of choice would be the Tomahawk missiles. No clandestine 'snatch' by our Special Operations Forces. No penetrating bombers or high-speed aircraft flown by our Air Force or Navy forces. No risk of losing American lives.
"Berger ambled down the stairwell and entered the Sit Room. He picked up the phone at one of the busy controller consoles and called the president. Amazingly, President Clinton was not available. Berger tried again and again. Bin Laden was within striking distance. The window of opportunity was closing fast The plan of attack was set and the Tomahawk crews were ready. For about an hour Berger couldn't get the commander in chief on the line. Though the president was always accompanied by military aides and the Secret Service, he was somehow unavailable. Berger stalked the Sit Room, anxious and impatient.
"Finally, the president accepted Berger's call. There was discussion, there were pauses --- and no decision. The president wanted to talk with his secretaries of defense and state. He wanted to study the issue further. Berger was forced to wait. The clock was ticking. The president eventually called back. He was still indecisive. He wanted more discussion. Berger alternated between phone calls and watching the clock.
"The NSC watch officer was convinced we had the right target. The intelligence sources were conclusive. The president, however, wanted a guaranteed hit or nothing at all.
"This time, it was nothing at all. We didn't pull the trigger. We 'studied' the issue until it was too late --- the window of opportunity closed. Al Qaeda's spiritual and organizational leader slipped through the noose.
"The lost Bin Laden hit typified the Clinton administration's ambivalent, indecisive way of dealing with terrorism. Ideologically, the Clinton administration was committed to the idea that most terrorists were misunderstood, had legitimate grievances, and could be appeased, which is why such military action as the administration authorized was so halfhearted, and ineffective, and designed more for 'show' than for honestly eliminating a threat. "
"When on February 26, 1993, Egyptian and Palestinian terrorists blew a hole six stories deep under the North Tower of the World Trade Center, President Clinton had been in office 38 days. Eight months after President Clinton left office, al Qaeda terrorists flew hijacked US commercial airliners into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center and into the Pentagon. The towers came down, as the terrorists finished the job begun eight years earlier. From 1993 to 2001, Islamic terrorists attacked American targets 10 separate times. If there's anything beyond scandal that we should remember about the Clinton years, this is it: They were the years that terrorists brought their war to the United States. "
This book is filled with accounts of incidents that show Bill Clinton's character, weakness and ineptitude: Clinton's fondling of a female military aide who became so upset about it the president had to meet with her to personally apologize; Bill Clinton's amazing loss of the nation's nuclear weapon launch codes and his failure to find them; the Clintons' contempt for military personnel; the fact that military aides attached to the White House considered resigning en masse; how a young White House staffer tried to divert an entire Navy carrier battle group so the president could have a photo op; Bill Clinton's cheating at golf. There are also revealing incidents involving Hillary Clinton.
Lt. Col. Patterson is yet another eyewitness to the disaster that was the Clinton presidency
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...nce&s=books
Dereliction Of Duty, The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America's Security, By Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson, USAF (Ret. ), carrier of the "nuclear football;" 216 pages, hardcover, Regnery Publishing, Inc. , Washington, D. C. ; $27. 95; available from Frontpagemag.com website and other retail outlets.
This book starts off with the author's account of an incident involving former President Bill Clinton, while he was attending the Presidents Cup golf tournament in Lake Manassas, Virginia, on Sept. 13, 1996, that aptly show's Clinton's irresponsibility regarding the terrorist threats facing this nation.
The Clinton entourage, with Lt. Col. Patterson among them carrying the "nuclear football," the black bag containing the nuclear weapons launch plans and codes which must always be available to the president, had just delivered Clinton to the golf tournament and was standing by while the president enjoyed himself hobnobbing with the celebrities and officials in attendance.
"I had been working for President Clinton for three months," writes Patterson, "but I was already well aware of his passion for golf. Having just returned from three days of campaigning on the West Coast and an early-morning cross-country flight on Air Force One, he was up and at it again. This was the Presidents Cup, the team from the United States versus the world's, and President Clinton wasn't going to miss it. "
Patterson was suddenly summoned to "Roadrunner," the black communications van manned by members of the White House Communications Agency. "On the phone was Sandy Berger, the acting White House national security advisor. Berger wanted me to contact the president. He needed a decision quickly. "
"Major, we're poised to launch air strikes on Iraq and I need the president's nod," Berger told the author. Saddam Hussein had just sent three tank divisions of elite Republican Guards to capture the Kurdish city of Irbil, forcing a mass exodus of tens of thousands of Kurds. While Clinton had publicly declared US "action is imminent" in dealing with Iraq days earlier, he had done nothing further.
When Patterson went to Clinton he was brushed off with, "Tell him I'll get back with him later. " Further calls from Berger were met with similar evasions, and the attack was called off. This was typical of Clinton when confronted with a plan for action against naked aggression by Middle Eastern tyrants.
Again and again, Patterson would learn, when faced with attacks by terrorists on US and allied personnel and facilities around the world, Clinton would talk tough but do little or nothing, preferring to treat terrorist attacks "as a law enforcement issue" and sending the FBI to investigate.
As time went on in the late 1990s, it was becoming more and more clear that a previously little known Middle Eastern figure was the terrorist mastermind behind the numerous attacks on US and allied personnel and installations around the world: Osama Bin Laden. Bin Laden had even admitted publicly that his Mujahedeen fighters were involved in the fighting and casualties inflicted on American troops in Somalia.
In November 1996, Bin Laden confessed, the author writes, "in an interview with the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper to his role in the heavy losses suffered by US troops in Somalia. 'The only non-Somali group which fought the Americans are the Arab Mujahedeen who were in Afghanistan,' he [Bin Laden] said. 'There were successful battles in which we inflicted heavy losses against the Americans. We used to hunt them in Mogadishu. ' "
In the fall in 1998, Patterson states, "The White House Security Room was buzzing... the National Security Council (NSC) and the intelligence community were tracking the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden, the shadowy mastermind of terrorist attacks on American targets overseas. 'They've successfully triangulated his location,' yelled a 'Sit Room' watch stander. 'We've got him. '
"Beneath the West Wing of the White House, behind a vaulted steel door, the Sit Room staff sprang into action. The watch officer notified National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, 'Sir, we've located Bin Laden. We have a two-hour window to strike. '
"Characteristic of the Clinton administration," Patterson writes, "the weapons of choice would be the Tomahawk missiles. No clandestine 'snatch' by our Special Operations Forces. No penetrating bombers or high-speed aircraft flown by our Air Force or Navy forces. No risk of losing American lives.
"Berger ambled down the stairwell and entered the Sit Room. He picked up the phone at one of the busy controller consoles and called the president. Amazingly, President Clinton was not available. Berger tried again and again. Bin Laden was within striking distance. The window of opportunity was closing fast The plan of attack was set and the Tomahawk crews were ready. For about an hour Berger couldn't get the commander in chief on the line. Though the president was always accompanied by military aides and the Secret Service, he was somehow unavailable. Berger stalked the Sit Room, anxious and impatient.
"Finally, the president accepted Berger's call. There was discussion, there were pauses --- and no decision. The president wanted to talk with his secretaries of defense and state. He wanted to study the issue further. Berger was forced to wait. The clock was ticking. The president eventually called back. He was still indecisive. He wanted more discussion. Berger alternated between phone calls and watching the clock.
"The NSC watch officer was convinced we had the right target. The intelligence sources were conclusive. The president, however, wanted a guaranteed hit or nothing at all.
"This time, it was nothing at all. We didn't pull the trigger. We 'studied' the issue until it was too late --- the window of opportunity closed. Al Qaeda's spiritual and organizational leader slipped through the noose.
"The lost Bin Laden hit typified the Clinton administration's ambivalent, indecisive way of dealing with terrorism. Ideologically, the Clinton administration was committed to the idea that most terrorists were misunderstood, had legitimate grievances, and could be appeased, which is why such military action as the administration authorized was so halfhearted, and ineffective, and designed more for 'show' than for honestly eliminating a threat. "
"When on February 26, 1993, Egyptian and Palestinian terrorists blew a hole six stories deep under the North Tower of the World Trade Center, President Clinton had been in office 38 days. Eight months after President Clinton left office, al Qaeda terrorists flew hijacked US commercial airliners into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center and into the Pentagon. The towers came down, as the terrorists finished the job begun eight years earlier. From 1993 to 2001, Islamic terrorists attacked American targets 10 separate times. If there's anything beyond scandal that we should remember about the Clinton years, this is it: They were the years that terrorists brought their war to the United States. "
This book is filled with accounts of incidents that show Bill Clinton's character, weakness and ineptitude: Clinton's fondling of a female military aide who became so upset about it the president had to meet with her to personally apologize; Bill Clinton's amazing loss of the nation's nuclear weapon launch codes and his failure to find them; the Clintons' contempt for military personnel; the fact that military aides attached to the White House considered resigning en masse; how a young White House staffer tried to divert an entire Navy carrier battle group so the president could have a photo op; Bill Clinton's cheating at golf. There are also revealing incidents involving Hillary Clinton.
Lt. Col. Patterson is yet another eyewitness to the disaster that was the Clinton presidency
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