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FORMER FBI HEAD: CLINTON WAS PROBLEM; 'CLOSETS WERE FULL OF SKELETONS'
The Drudge report ^ | Oct. 6, 2004 | Drudge

Posted on 10/06/2005 11:01:02 AM PDT by blogblogginaway

Edited on 10/07/2005 5:24:28 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Red Siren breaking on Drudge. Not linked yet

Update:


FBI FREEH UNLOADS ON CLINTON: 'CLOSETS WERE FULL OF SKELETONS'
Thu Oct 06 2005 14:07:50 ET

Louis Freeh Speaks for the First Time About his Terrible Relationship with the President

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh says publicly for the first time that his relationship with President Bill Clinton – the man who appointed him – was a terrible one because Clinton’s scandals made him a constant target of FBI investigations. Freeh discloses this and many other details of his dealings with the Clinton White House in a new bombshell book: 'My FBI : Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Fighting the War on Terror' -- set for release next week.

Freeh has taped an interview with Mike Wallace and CBSNEWS '60 MINUTES' to be broadcast Sunday, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

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In the book, “My FBI,” he writes, “The problem was with Bill Clinton -- the scandals and the rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.”

The director sought to distance himself from Clinton because of Whitewater, refusing a White House pass that would have enabled him to enter the building without signing in. This irked Clinton. “I wanted all my visits to be official,” says Freeh. “When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president,” he tells Wallace.

Returning the pass was only the start of the rift. Later, relations got so bad that President Clinton reportedly began referring to Freeh as “that F…ing Freeh.” Says Freeh, “I don’t know how they referred to me and I really didn’t care,” he says. “My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations. He, unfortunately for the country and unfortunately for him, happened to be the subject of that investigation,” Freeh says.

In another revelation, Freeh says the former president let down the American people and the families of victims of the Khobar Towers terror attack in Saudi Arabia. After promising to bring to justice those responsible for the bombing that killed 19 and injured hundreds, Freeh says Clinton refused to personally ask Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to allow the FBI to question bombing suspects the kingdom had in custody – the only way the bureau could secure the interviews, according to Freeh. Freeh writes in the book, “Bill Clinton raised the subject only to tell the crown prince that he understood the Saudis’ reluctance to cooperate and then he hit Abdullah up for a contribution to the Clinton Presidential Library.” Says Freeh, “That’s a fact that I am reporting.”

The most unsavory of those investigations was the one concerning Clinton and Lewinsky. The White House intern had kept a semen-stained dress as proof of her relationship and a Clinton blood sample was needed to match the DNA on the dress. “Well, it was like a bad movie and it was ridiculous that…Ken Starr and myself, the director of the FBI, find ourselves in that ridiculous position,” he tells Wallace. “But we did it…very carefully, very confidentially,” recalls Freeh. As he explains the plan in the book, Clinton was at a scheduled dinner and excused himself to go to the bathroom. Instead of the restroom, he entered another room where FBI medical technicians were waiting to take a blood sample.

Freeh says he was determined to stay on as FBI director until President Clinton left office so that Clinton could not appoint his successor. “I was concerned about who he would put in there as FBI director because he had expressed antipathy for the FBI, for the director,” he tells Wallace. “[So] I was going to stay there and make sure he couldn’t replace me,” Freeh tells Wallace.



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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
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To: blogblogginaway

He should never have even run for the presidency.


41 posted on 10/06/2005 11:20:19 AM PDT by Peach (Go Yankees!)
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To: VRWCTexan

Time Warner blocks Drudge?


42 posted on 10/06/2005 11:20:29 AM PDT by andyk (Go Matt Kenseth!)
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To: doug from upland

Ping

Does this have anything to do with your "breaking headline" for Friday? just wondering...


43 posted on 10/06/2005 11:20:36 AM PDT by Babsig (www.genesysitsolutions.com)
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To: DogBarkTree
“Bill Clinton raised the subject only to tell the crown prince that he understood the Saudis’ reluctance to cooperate and then he hit Abdullah up for a contribution to the Clinton Presidential Library.” Says Freeh, “That’s a fact that I am reporting.”

OMG, and there are people who actually want this utter scum back in the White House. I hope Slick Willie is blowing a gasket.

44 posted on 10/06/2005 11:21:09 AM PDT by Bahbah (Member of the Water Bucket Brigade)
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To: VRWCTexan

Glad to help


45 posted on 10/06/2005 11:21:16 AM PDT by Tree of Liberty (requiescat in pace, President Reagan)
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To: counterpunch

GOOD ONE!!!!!!!


46 posted on 10/06/2005 11:21:50 AM PDT by EnquiringMind
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To: kcvl
Too bad it wasn't:
Investigating the Mafia
Bringing down Bill Clinton
and Waging a war on Terror
This reminds me of Bill Simon's (Nixon Tres Secy) book, A Time for Truth. Why do these guys only get religion when they start their book tours?

ML/NJ

47 posted on 10/06/2005 11:22:20 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: Revel

This sounds similar to that thread you started yesterday about sites blocking some surfers from specific ISPs.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1497819/posts?page=10#10


48 posted on 10/06/2005 11:22:33 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: andyk

http://news.com.com/Network+feud+leads+to+Net+blackout/2100-1038_3-5889592.html?tag=nefd.top


49 posted on 10/06/2005 11:22:41 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Carry Daily, Apply Sparingly.)
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To: blogblogginaway

Clinton and his wife should never be allowed within 1,000,000 miles of the White House or the UN or politics at all.


50 posted on 10/06/2005 11:22:49 AM PDT by freekitty
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To: blogblogginaway

Gee, I wonder if Freeh might come under personal attack in the MSM?


51 posted on 10/06/2005 11:22:53 AM PDT by Plutarch
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To: blogblogginaway

WHEN THREADS COLLIDE:

FORMER FBI HEAD: CLINTON WAS PROBLEM; 'CLOSETS WERE FULL OF SKELETONS'

Posted by blogblogginaway
On 10/06/2005 2:01:02 PM EDT · 42 replies · 1,073+ views

The Drudge report ^ | Oct. 6, 2004 | Drudge
Red Siren breaking on Drudge. Not linked yet

is preceeded by a thread entitled:

Judge, Prosecutor Sued in Release of Sex-Offense Suspect


52 posted on 10/06/2005 11:23:13 AM PDT by George Smiley (This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
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To: DogBarkTree
Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction.

And Clinton let us know where that compass pointed, when he delivered this classic line at the 1992 DNC Convention, after the Democrats nominated him as their candidate...

"Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values."....complete text of Clinton's 1992 acceptance speech, with MP3 audio of same.

53 posted on 10/06/2005 11:23:23 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (Psalm 73)
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To: RockinRight

>>>>Hell Indeed Hot, says Source Close to Satan

Hillary spoke today?


54 posted on 10/06/2005 11:23:49 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: kcvl; Mo1; xsmommy; Carolinamom; Miss Marple; Peach; MEG33; McGavin999; deport; Southack

Oh man...........I hope this guy D E L I V E R S.


55 posted on 10/06/2005 11:23:53 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: blogblogginaway

may just watch 60 minutes for the first time in about 15 years!


56 posted on 10/06/2005 11:24:18 AM PDT by Archytekt
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To: Bahbah

What a great afternoon pick-me-up - better than a cup of java - it will be fun to see how open WJC will be to the press the next few weeks - maybe Greta will have him back on her show!


57 posted on 10/06/2005 11:24:20 AM PDT by LadyBuzz
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To: blogblogginaway
>>>>>'His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out'...

So Louie, why'd ya' let his wife have all those files then?
58 posted on 10/06/2005 11:25:33 AM PDT by .cnI redruM ("They're thin and they were riding bicycles" - Ted Turner on NK malnutrition.)
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To: blogblogginaway

Gee, I wonder if Freeh might come under personal attack in the MSM?


59 posted on 10/06/2005 11:25:40 AM PDT by Plutarch
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To: VadeRetro

Honest? Do I need to read that book before I read the new one?


60 posted on 10/06/2005 11:25:51 AM PDT by Howlin
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