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Clinton OK after airport incident (10/14/01) YONKERS - A bizarre accident at Westchester County Airport involved Senator Hillary Clinton's entourage Sunday.

Sources tell News 12 Westchester that a vehicle in Senator Clinton's security team tried to bypass a mandatory check point at the airport, which has been under a heightened state of alert since the terrorist attacks. A county police officer attempting to stop the vehicle from getting through injured his shoulder. That officer was taken to Saint Agnes Hospital in White Plains, and his condition is not known.

Senator Clinton, who turned 54 Sunday, was en route to board a private jet to an unreleased destination. The former first lady could not be reached for comment.

-- Anonymous, October 15, 2001

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figures... Herself is to good to do what everyone else does.

it's 1am central and I just got home from another 16 hour day.

like I said... figures

-- Anonymous, October 15, 2001

the nerve of that trollish woman. Pity this story will be buried away from her constituents.

Security should have impounded the car and dismantled it. Maybe even strip-search the folks too, for good measure. She ahs been seen in the company of questionable figure heads in the past, you know...

-- Anonymous, October 15, 2001

Sen. Clinton's van drives past security checkpoint

By Liz Trotta THE WASHINGTON TIMES

NEW YORK — A black van carrying Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and driven by a U.S. Secret Service agent reportedly talking on his cell phone rolled through a checkpoint at Westchester County airport Sunday, injuring a policeman who tried to stop them — first by shouting and then by banging on the side of the moving vehicle. Law enforcement officials called it "a misunderstanding." Police Officer Ernest Dymond, a 19-year veteran of the force, was one of three uniformed officers manning the sensitive checkpoint when the security detail for the New York Democrat approached the airport. As at many airports throughout the country, the Yonkers airport is on high alert for any sign of terrorist activity. Officer Dymond, 47, said Mrs. Clinton's van approached the checkpoint at about 35 mph. The driver, he said, was talking on a cell phone as he yelled for him to stop, but only after the police officer threw his shoulder into the van while banging on its side did the vehicle come to a halt about 100 yards beyond the checkpoint. He described the agent driving as "quite agitated" when asked to show his identification. The officer was taken to a hospital for treatment of bruises. "I didn't know if we had a terrorist," Officer Dymond said of the driver, "and once I found out who he was, I was even more agitated that he, of all people, should have known." The police officer said he had no conversation with Mrs. Clinton, who was on her way to a private aircraft waiting to take her to a fund-raiser in Syracuse. Her spokesman, Peter Kauffmann, said, "This is not something Senator Clinton had any involvement in." Detective William Rehm of the Westchester County Police Department said a prior arrangement had been worked out with the Secret Service for the police to escort Mrs. Clinton's van from the airport entrance to a hanger. "Why didn't they wait for the escort?" he asked. Larry Saez, the Secret Service resident agent in charge of the county, said the Secret Service had no intention of violating security arrangements. He described the incident as "a nonissue." Secret Service spokesman Tony Ball in Washington said there was "a little confusion" as to whether the motorcade was to proceed or stop, but it was quickly resolved. "Some cops were waving him in and others were saying stop," he said. A source within the Westchester County Police Department also characterized the incident as a misunderstanding, adding, "I'm not a big fan of hers, but it would be unfair to accuse her of having anything to do with this." [Well, HELL, she was IN the damn van!!! She couldn't speak, tell teh driver to stop?]

-- Anonymous, October 16, 2001

Barefoot, strip searching Hillary? The horror, the horror!

-- Anonymous, October 16, 2001

LOL Peter!

Halloween is just around the corner~!

-- Anonymous, October 16, 2001