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> Vol. 15, No. 34 -- September 13, 1999
> Published Date August 20, 1999, in Washington, D.C.
> www.insightmag.com
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> Aldrich Says
> Everyone Needs to Speak Up
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> ------- By Stephen Goode
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> Former FBI agent Gary Aldrich has founded an organization
> dedicated to protecting whistle-blowers, fighting political
> correctness and preserving First Amendment freedoms.
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> <Picture: T>hree years ago Gary Aldrich published Unlimited
> Access, a book about the extraordinary behavior and serious
> breaches of security he witnessed while doing background checks
> on White House personnel as an FBI agent inside the presidential
> mansion. Unlimited Access was on the New York Times best-seller
> list for 20 weeks and has to date sold more than 500,000 copies.
> . . . . These days Aldrich is president of the Patrick Henry
> Center for Individual Rights, a group he founded to help
> whistle-blowers and to be a leader in the battle against
> political correctness. Aldrich enjoyed his 26 years in the FBI,
> but gave it all up to write and publish his book on the Clinton
> White House. His big concern today is that Americans are too
> cowed by the politically correct to speak what's really on their
> minds. The Patrick Henry Center's mission, says Aldrich in the
> center's News Bulletin is "to bring truth back into style and
> fight the PC police." . . . . Insight: How did you happen to name
> your foundation after Patrick Henry? . . . . Gary Aldrich:
> Actually the answer is pretty easy. In December 1995, when I
> thought I had an interest in writing a book about the Clinton
> White House and determined I could do it, I still had this
> nagging question I needed to answer: Why me? How could I be so
> presumptuous that I could write a book about the president of the
> United States and get away with it? . . . . As it happened, my
> son had some school work he had to complete which required us to
> go to Colonial Williamsburg. While I was down there, I was going
> through some of the material available on the Founders and found
> some very interesting information on Patrick Henry. . . . . Like
> everyone else, my knowledge of Henry was his speech at St. John's
> Church, "Give me liberty or give me death!" I knew he was a
> patriot and a brave man, but I had no idea of the depth of his
> participation in the founding. Five times governor of Virginia.
> He, George Mason and a few others were instrumental in assuring
> we had our Bill of Rights. . . . . He and others said, "We've
> just got rid of one monarchy and we're not about to install
> another!" Patrick Henry had the courage to speak his beliefs as
> he saw fit, and we need more of that. . . . . Insight: In a
> recent issue of the Patrick Henry Center's News Bulletin, you
> quote what Confucius said 2,500 years ago when he was asked what
> he would first do to change a corrupt government: "It would
> certainly be to correct language. If language is not correct,
> what is said is not what is meant; what ought to be done remains
> undone; morals deteriorate; justice will go astray; and the
> people will stand about in hopeless confusion." Do you see
> language as a task for the center? . . . . GA: Our primary
> mission here, I think, is to identify what we believe is the most
> pervasive problem that we have in this country today: political
> correctness. I have a belief that if folks really said or wrote
> what they really were thinking, we wouldn't be in the mess we're
> in today and we wouldn't have the problems we have in this
> society. . . . . But people have been so browbeaten into being
> quiet! We want to identify that as the problem and we want to
> identify political correctness as what eventually could bring
> this government down. . . . . I believe that with all my heart.
> Those of us who have an argument with the liberal agenda -- if
> you want to be kind and call it liberal -- have an obligation to
> stand up and speak out against it, whether it's in our own
> community, or in our school, or at our kid's college, wherever it
> may be happening. . . . . Insight: The First Amendment is very
> important to you. . . . . GA: When Patrick Henry and George Mason
> and the others put the First Amendment as the No. 1 amendment,
> they knew what they were doing. The whole idea of the First
> Amendment is critical free speech -- not the free speech that
> allows a Larry Flynt to publish Hustler magazine but critical
> free speech, which means that the population should be at all
> times free to express its beliefs. As far as I'm concerned, we
> don't have that now. We can express our beliefs as long as they
> line up with the view that's politically correct. . . . .
> Environment of course is one of them. Kids come home from school
> today very conversant on the recycling of aluminum cans. But they
> can't have a discussion with you about the importance, say, of
> the Second and Third Amendments. They can't talk about what
> sacrifices our Founding Fathers made for this country, but they
> know all about a species of endangered tree slugs. . . . .
> Insight: Have you thought about writing a follow-up to your
> critique of the Clinton White House that would discuss your
> experiences as a whistle-blower and critic of the current
> administration? . . . . GA: I've kicked around the idea and
> haven't closed the door on it. The trouble with writing a book
> like that is that it is so all-consuming of time and effort. I'd
> have to drop out to do it justice, and we've had so many
> victories here at the Patrick Henry Center that I would hate to
> drop out. . . . . Insight: What are some of those victories? . .
> . . GA: When Linda Tripp first surfaced in the Monica Lewinsky
> matter, I met with her attorney and we spoke about how the center
> could assist her. We went on to give consulting in areas such as
> fund raising. We realized she would have massive legal bills out
> of this. Having gone through it myself, I was able to walk them
> through the process and give them some advice on what to do and
> what not to do. . . . . We also sponsored a letter-writing
> campaign for her, so that people would write to her and encourage
> her, as well as donate to her legal fund. From my own experience,
> I knew that contacts from different people offering encouragement
> would be very helpful. If, for example, some one had put together
> some kind of letter-writing campaign for me -- where I would have
> been able to hear from average Americans who supported me -- it
> would have been beneficial, especially at the very beginning. . .
> . . There's a silence. Later, I learned that the people were out
> there and that they were very supportive, but it was difficult in
> the beginning. There's a natural tendency to think someone else
> is taking care of this, someone is supporting the victims. But in
> my case, there was no one else supporting me. I was the Lone
> Ranger. . . . . We also hired a media consultant for Linda Tripp
> to handle all the requests that came in for her spokesperson to
> be interviewed by radio, TV and print. We had all that
> coordinated so that they didn't have anything to do but
> communicate with the consultant on what the schedule would be,
> where to appear, where to take the calls; and we're still doing
> that. . . . . By the way, we're a Section 502(c)3 organization
> and we've been in compliance with Internal Revenue Service
> regulations, but of course there's the chance that sooner or
> later the IRS will take an interest in what we do here, and I
> would be pleased as punch to have IRS employees come in here and
> blow the whistle on the IRS. . . . . Insight: Were you surprised
> by Clinton's impeachment? . . . . GA: I expected it. What did
> surprise me was the degree to which the substantive issues were
> put aside in favor of this obsession for one whole year on Monica
> Lewinsky, and it's unfortunate. The judgment was made on the
> president's sexual conduct, not on the fact, for example, that
> the Chinese were able to get our [nuclear-weapons] secrets, not
> on the fact that the entire security apparatus had broken down! .
> . . . Insight: What's your reply when commentators claim that it
> isn't just the Clinton administration that's to blame for the
> loss of secrets to China, but other recent administrations,
> Republican and Democrat? . . . . GA: There's always been
> espionage going on. It's the degree to which the administration
> in charge can handle the damage to head it off is the answer, I
> think. You can't stop every spy, but you can stop most of them.
> Some administrations are better at protecting our secrets than
> others. What I saw at the [Clinton] White House was a wholesale
> breakdown. . . . . Insight: It's surprising there's
> whistle-blowers at all, isn't it, given the problems they face. .
> . . . GA: One of my big concerns is the fact the federal
> government has become what I would call "scientific" about
> discrediting whistle-blowers. The White House is not just
> reacting to a surprise that somebody has blind-sided them with an
> allegation of some kind. It's actually having a process in place.
> I don't know but that they have a checklist or a Chinese menu and
> go down and check the right blocks. . . . . The recipe is to try
> to discredit the whistle-blower so they move the person out of
> their assignment quickly, so they'd no longer have access to
> information. To get back to where you were at first takes years
> and lots of money, with no real hope of achieving victory. I had
> it in mind to take the experience I had and put it to good use to
> help others in similar circumstances. I know what's going to
> happen to them, having been an FBI agent for 26 years. I saw it
> happen to others in government and in my own agency as well. . .
> . . . . . . . . . . Personal Bio of Gary Aldrich: . . . . .
> . . . Born: May 22, 1945, Amsterdam, N.Y. . . . . . . . .
> Family: Wife, Nina; three children. . . . . . . . . Education:
> Dade College in Florida; accounting degree. . . . . . . . .
> Career: Founder and president of the Patrick Henry Center for
> Individual Liberty, Fairfax, Va. Twenty-six year veteran of the
> Federal Bureau of Investigation. . . . . . . . . Books:
> Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House,
> and the political thriller, Speak No Evil. . . . . . . . .
> Favorite reading: Henry Mayer's, A Son of Thunder: Patrick Henry
> and the American Republic. "For entertainment," a good novel by
> Tom Clancy. Books by Joseph Wambaugh and John D. MacDonald. . . .
> . . . . . Sports: Auto racing and football "are my first
> loves."
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