I think it was Gary Aldrich in his book that had this line that went like this: "My God, don't you people know what you have elected? These people are druggies."
Unlimited Access : An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House
by Gary Aldrich, Michael Reagan
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"Special agents of the FBI are trained to find truth, document truth, and present it to a judge, to a jury, or even to the counsel of the president of the United States"
So writes Gary Aldrich, a retired FBI agent who worked in the White House during the Bush and Clinton administrations. This book bristles with indignant observations of how Clinton's staff was chosen. According to Aldrich, the resulting hires were rife with serious ethical, legal, psychological or even financial or moral problems.
Aldrich reserves special calumny for the apparel of White House staff:
While I walked in, I noticed other oddly dressed new personnel...I saw jeans, T-shirts, and sweatshirts; men with earrings and ponytails; and every manner of footwear except normal dress shoes. One young lady was dressed entirely in black -- black pants, black T-shirt, black shoes, even black lipstick. She was the only one I saw wearing business shoes. But they were men's shoes -- big black wingtips..."
...and so on for several pages. A man with "a blinding, fluorescent pink tie with a complex geometric design" is singled out for special sartorial opprobrium.
As of this date, the jury is decidedly out on whether the more substantive accusations in this book are fact, fiction, or some hybrid of the two (for example, the White House Christmas tree bedecked with syringes and crack pipes, or Mr. Clinton's "midnight rides" through Washington, D.C.). In either case, this is a tale sure to outrage or amuse, depending upon your political bent--and depending upon whether Mr. Aldrich has "found truth and documented truth" according to his law-given responsibility. --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title |
