TO:  Letter to the Editor      

SUBJECT:  President Is Assassinated By Gossip!

There are two simple words which would settle the issue of the 
Secret Service testifying before a Grand Jury against the 
President of the United States.  All law enforcement officers 
know these two words very well.  They learn them at an early age 
and they are often more effective then bullets in dealing with 
precarious situations.  Do you know what they are?

Kenneth Starr seems to be bent upon prosecuting the President.  
But when he starts calling on the Secret Service to testify 
against the President he is in effect attempting to assassinate 
the President by destroying the President's image and credibility 
with the American people.

There is more than one way to kill the President.  Remember the 
old adage, "The pen is mightier than the sword?"  You can kill a 
president with a pen, with a tape recorder or with a few words 
uttered in confidence and repeated by listening ears.

If we are going to have a President and a Secret Service to 
protect the President, one that is willing to lay down their 
lives for the President, then we must not corrode that body 
armor with trivial pursuit of trite matters.  To do so could one 
day result in Presidential assassination by gossip!

Have you thought of those two words yet?  You have probably 
spoken them before.  I'm sure Larry Cockell, the Secret Service 
agent closest to President Clinton and summoned before a Grand 
Jury, knows them well.  I would not be surprised if Kenneth Starr 
hears them soon coming out of the mouth of Secret Service agents 
saying as politely as possible, "With all due respect to the 
court, your honor, I am sworn to protect the President.  Fuck 
off!"

Sincerely, 
Terry Lynch 
Montgomery, AL
DATE:  July 17, 1998