Posted on 10/06/2005 3:50:12 PM PDT by Quaker
(CBS) Elevated to the post of FBI director by President Clinton in 1993, Louis Freeh now speaks publicly about his terrible relationship with the president.
“We were preoccupied in eight years with multiple investigations,” Freeh tells 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace this Sunday, Oct. 6, at 7 PM ET/PT.
In his upcoming book, My FBI, Freeh 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 scandals Freeh mentions include Whitewater, Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers.
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.”
Freeh says the most delicate and unsavory of the investigations was the Lewinsky affair, when the FBI needed to obtain a blood sample from the president to match the DNA on the infamous blue dress.
“But we did it … very carefully, very confidentially,” Freeh says. During a scheduled dinner, the president 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.
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"Mr Freeh...which cover up that you were involved in was the biggest?"
Things will come out faster now than after previous presidents terms. Look how long it took JFK's episodes to come out. Most will not believe how low Bill and Hill are.
I thought it was the VRWC that was behind all the investigations.
This will be a hit piece on Freeh-CBS will never remotely suggest that Clinton didn't preside over "the most ethical administration in history". With Hillary looking to run in 2008, the MSM will pull all the stops not to get humiliated like they were in 2004.
Tough choice: Waco, Oklahoma City & TWA800?
The Toon tried to wag the dog one more time by telling Ladies' Home Journal that it is likely we will lose the Iraq war.
Bill Clinton is a human stool sample
I'll say this for the man, he's a patriot.
See also: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1497819/posts - thread based on Drudge's reportage of same story...
Perhaps what is equally disturbing to me is that he was elected and reelected which reflects most unfavorably upon the electorate.
He's not a sample. He's the floater that won't go down.
Yeah those are probably the big three right? Unless you throw in Chi-Com secrets/Loral....what else..? I know we are leaving a few out.
Clinton kept REINO after waco for one reason. She was controlable. NO leader would be willing to keep such a FUBAR generator in their admindistration .....UNLESS he knew he could control her. Why was Freeh around so long? Is he telling us that he investigated Clinton for 8 years and couldnt find anything>? Why didnt he resign? He is as guilty because it was his watch. He was responsible to the people not the president.
Among the skeletons in that closet is a boner...
But all that stuff about Clinton was the result of a right-wing conspiracy!!
Wow.
Did he cover up V Foster as well? Cant remember.
He better have a lot of body guards.
Not saying Freeh is a bad guy, or that this shouldn't come out....
But I wonder if he would have ever talked about it if he wasn't promoting sales of his new book.
While I can appreciate the difficult position he was in during the Clinton "administration", I'd think a lot more of him if he had gone public the day after President Bush was inaugurated rather than waiting five years so the clintonistas can just shrug it off as "old news... lets move on".
Doing it this way, it seems more mercenary than patriotic.
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