<p>A former Secret Service officer <a href="https://pagesix.com/2016/06/05/tell-all-book-reveals-hillarys-erratic-uncontrollable-ways-in-the-white-house/?_ga=1.132003400.677000422.1459809067" type="external">who published an explosive tell-all from his days guarding the Bill and Hillary Clinton White House</a> is planning to file a defamation lawsuit against his detractors, The Post has learned.</p> 
<p>A lawyer for Gary Byrne, whose book &#8220; <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Character-Discloses-Firsthand-Experience/dp/1455568872?tag=nypost-20" type="external">Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate</a>,&#8221; has sent notices to Media Matters for America and David Brock informing them that he intends to file suit.</p> 
<p>&#8220;Officer Byrne will bring legal action against you, in your personal capacity, and against Media Matters,&#8221; a lawyer for the former Secret Service officer wrote to Brock, a loyal Clinton ally and the founder of the liberal advocacy group Media Matters.</p> 
<p>The letter requests Brock and Media Matters to &#8220;hold&#8221; all records and communications associated with their communications regarding Byrne &#8212; including &#8220;Any communication(s) between David Brock and The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton&#8221; regarding the former Secret Service officer, suggesting there might be collusion between the campaign and her defenders.</p> 
<p>It also demands Brock &#8220;immediately and publicly retract any statement or inference by yourself and/or Media Matters to the effect that Officer Byrne was not fully truthful in recounting within &#8216;Crisis of Character&#8217; details from any previous testimony.&#8221;</p> 
<p>Additionally, Byrne&#8217;s attorney demanded a retraction for &#8220;the utterly false statement(s) that Officer Byrne was not in close proximity to President William Jefferson Clinton.&#8221;</p> 
<p>His lawyer states that &#8220;some of our best witnesses to such immediacy are George Stephanopoulos, John Podesta, Leon Panetta, Bruce Lindsey, Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Clinton himself &#8212; who appear to have already confirmed &#8230; under oath &#8230; the regular proximity of Officer Byrne to the President for many years.&#8221;</p> 
<p>Byrne claims the liberal advocacy group tried to hurt his credibility to defend the Clintons.</p> 
<p>Lawyers for Brock and Media Matters, Marc Elias and Ezra Reese, acknowledged receiving the letter from Byrne&#8217;s lawyer.</p> 
<p>Elias is also a lawyer for Hillary Clinton&#8217;s presidential election campaign.</p> 
<p>Byrne, who <a type="internal">has been a surrogate for Donald Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign,</a> told The Post, &#8220;We&#8217;re moving forward with the suit regardless&#8221; of whether retractions are issued. My goal here is to get the message out &#8211; that everything in my book is true.&#8221;</p> 
<p>Byrne has sent a similar letter &#8212; and has threatened similar legal action &#8212; to Jan Gilhooly, president of the Association of Former Agents of the United States Secret Service, who also questioned the claims made in &#8220;Crisis of Character.&#8221;</p> 
<p>Byrne expects the legal filings to come after the November presidential election.</p>
Ex-Secret Service officer behind Clinton tell-all planning defamation suit