Friday, April 6, 2001 9:10 a.m. EDT

Secret Service Halted Chelsea's Drunken Spree, Says Tabloid

Secret Service agents had to step in last month to halt former first daughter Chelsea Clinton's wild spring break drinking spree at a tony Aspen bar before she got "sloppy drunk," according to a report hitting newsstands Friday.

And at a second watering hole, one of Chelsea's six taxpayer-funded bodyguards was apparently pressed into service to help her get around Colorado's drinking laws.

At a bar known as Aspen Billiards, Secret Service agents watched as "Chelsea threw back several shots of a fiery spirit and kept saying, 'Hit me again, baby,'" a source tells the supermarket tabloid Globe magazine.

"Aspen was buzzing with stories of Chelsea hitting the bars, drinking like a fish and strutting her stuff," the source added.

A second eyewitness at the same bar tells the Globe that Chelsea's drinking binge visibly angered one of her bodyguards.

"One Secret Service woman had a scowl on her face and you could see she was not happy" as Chelsea shot pool with strange men after downing "six or seven roounds of drinks" with her friends.

"She and her pals were joking about dancing on the bar and tables" and male bar patrons began to egg them on. "But it never got that far," the source said.

"The girls were all wild and raucous and some of the guys claimed Chelsea was getting out of control."

At that point, "Secret Service had to step in and stop the flow of drinks because they didn't want to see Chelsea sloppy drunk."

At the Cooper City Bar & Restaurant, a Secret Service agent was apparently called upon to persuade one bartender to serve the ex-first daughter alcohol even though she didn't have proper I.D. proving she was 21.

"We treat celebrities like any other person," a Cooper City staffer said. "I needed to see her I.D. regardless of who she is."

Asked by the Globe whether Chelsea had the Secret Service intervene on her behalf, the employee would say only, "Let's just say the matter was resolved."

Last month, mainstream news organizations, including the New York Times, gave headline coverage to reports that first daughter Jenna Bush was escorted by her Secret Service contingent when she went to retrieve a drunken friend from jail.

Some columnists complained the press had ignored an earlier, anonymously sourced National Enquirer report that Jenna herself sometimes drank and had even smoked marijuana.

So far, no mainstream venue has picked up the Globe report on Chelsea Clinton using Secret Service agents to escort her while she goes bar hopping with friends.

In a last-minute executive order, ex-President Clinton extended his daughter's Secret Service protection till she leaves Stanford University, where she is a senior.

-- The President's Daughter (is a@lush.com), April 07, 2001

Answers

You know, she didn't exactly ask for all of this.

-- (cin@cin.cin), April 07, 2001.

Bush thought Chelsea should be executed for this behavior, but since it was revealed in the tabloids that his underage daughter Jenna was doing the same thing, his advisors told him he would have to execute her as well. He didn't have any problem in doing that, but his wife Laura told him it was a bit too harsh.

-- (no one is allowed to get drunk @ even though. dumbya did), April 07, 2001.

The President's Daughter (is a@lush.com), April 07, 2001

Yes, We already know that, but the Ex-presidents daughter is of legal age to drink and it sounds like the propaganda machines are trying to exagerate her actions to take the heat off of the underage drinking of the president. So she joked about table dancing? Jeeze, she should joke about a woman begging for her life after making sure she was instramental in her death, like bush did, that's the acceptable form of humor these days.

-- Cherri (jessam5@home.com), April 07, 2001.

I smell a rat.

Got link?

-- (got @ link. rat fink?), April 08, 2001.

What if the Bush death penalty joke was exagerrated?

-- use your brain cherri (think@a.little), April 08, 2001.

Ah Ms. Cherri, I suspect you would have a different attitude had Karla Fay hacked-up two of your family members. That woman was evil incarnated and her ‘born again’ conversion on death row is pure bullshit. As far as the President's so-called joke, does the term 'urban legend' have any meaning to you? I’m sure you have some admirable traits but taking responsibility for one’s actions is not one of them.

-- So (cr@t.es), April 08, 2001.