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>From http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2000/1/13/171058
Letterman Secret Service 'Threat' Not a First for Hillary
If staffers on the David Letterman show threatened to sic the Secret Service
on any audience member who shouted or booed during Hillary Clinton's "Late
Show" debut, it wouldn't be the first time something like that has happened.
An on-the-scene report swirling around the Internet late Wednesday claimed
that Letterman staffers repeatedly warned the audience beforehand, "Put your
politics aside. This is a comedy show -- no booing, no shouting. And if you
don't listen to us you can talk to the Secret Service."
The New York Daily News confirmed that Hillary's "Late Show" audience was
warned not to "boo, whistle or shout political slogans," but omitted any
mention of Secret Service-connected threats.
A "Late Show" press spokeswoman contacted Thursday by NewsMax.com would say
only that the Secret Service did not employ any overly intrusive security
measures, such as pat-down frisks or metal detectors. But as to whether the
audience was deliberately intimidated to spare Mrs. Clinton any
embarrassment, she respondeed, "I don't know what they were told. I wasn't
out there."
As outrageous as it may seem, reports of the Secret Service being misused to
shield Mrs. Clinton from embarrassing media moments are not new. During a
fund-raising swing though the Southwest in June 1996, for instance, the
Arizona Republic reported a similar incident:
"Reporters at the Monday afternoon speech were kept at arm's length from the
first lady by Secret Service agents, who warned the press not to yell out
questions." Hours earlier, the Supreme Court had rejected a White House bid
to keep some of Mrs. Clinton's Whitewater records sealed.
Incensed by the abuse of both the presidential security detail and the First
Amendment, Arizona Rep. Matt Salmon complained to The Washington Times, "It
appears (the president) has targeted the Secret Service to silence his
critics. The Secret Service is paid to protect the president and his family
from physical harm, not to protect them from tough questions."
President Clinton has himself sicced the Secret Service on critics he
thought went too far.
Pat Mendoza, who was at the "Taste of Chicago" food fair in July 1996, was
actually arrested along with her husband Glenn for merely speaking her mind,
albeit in a vulgar manner, as Clinton attempted to shake her hand.
"You suck and those boys died," Mrs. Mendoza erupted, referring to the still
unsolved Khobar Towers bombing a month earlier, which had taken the lives of
19 USAF personnel stationed in Saudi Arabia.
Then, according to Mrs. Mendoza's account to The Washington Times, "Mr.
Clinton looked at her for a moment, then motioned to an assistant before
moving down the line. After the president left, Secret Servcie agents
converged on Mrs. Mendoza, accusing her of threatening the president."
Seconds before the Secret Service swooped down, a videotape shot by
Chicago's WMAQ-TV shows Clinton pointing out the Mendozas to White House
enforcer Bruce Lindsey. That video has never been broadcast nationally.
After their arrest, the Mendozas spent 14 hours in a Cook County lock-up.
Though the Secret Service eventually dropped all charges, the couple, who
ran a small electronics business, was soon audited by the Clinton IRS.
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