Posted on 10/06/2005 6:13:23 PM PDT by MikeA
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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And the DemoCRITES have the nerve to accuse Bush of being in the Saudis' back pocket??
The Democrats hate and vilify Bush, but this slimewad Clinton is the man they put into office in the 90s. Their character judgment is amazingly stunted.
This I find disingenuous. Sorry, but that was all but saying, 'I want to keep you at arm's length because I don't trust you.'
wonder what George Tenet's book will read like!!
Im not buying a single thing this Freeh has to say. Of course anything that he says bad about Clinton is easy to buy because Clinton was all that could be said and worse.
That still doesn't explain how or why it took this long for Freeh to come and explain his relationship with that idiot. And why didn't he back up the FBI agents that were in the White House if he was so independnt. Where was the FBI prosecution and investigation on the FBI files being read, etc etc.
I think this whole thing would never see the light of day if Freeh didn't want to sell books. I think he possesses the lowest of characters for not standing with Aldredge and the other agents assigned to the White House during the Clinton Administration.
So i would suggest to any and all out there, don't buy his book, don't buy his anti-Clinton act, etc. I think the fix was in not to go after clinton when they decided to make a deal (Freeh and Clinton) on freeing Leonard Peletier. The FBI marched (for the first time in it's history) 500 agents infront of the White House to stop Clinton from freeing Peletier.
The whole relationship between Clinton and Freeh was disdainful and now we have Freeh writing a book telling all???? No thanks!!!!
CBS and Sixty minutes? An interview revealing the truth about Clinton?
This interview will never see the light of day.
I love this. I still haven't figured out how President Clinton managed to find the time to be such a scallywag. I've heard the phrase "stuck on stupid" but that would be giving him far too much benefit of the doubt. It's like saying a master marksman is just lucky. No he wasn't just a man trying to be good and failing horribly, he was clearly a man who knew exactly what he was doing and is a master of shedding responsibility for his escapades. He is still doing it. There after 9-11 it looked like he might turn over another leaf but he just can't do it. His ego is big and his shame is small.
Skeletons in Clintons closet? Duh, Mr. Freeh! Duh!
popcorn, please.
Lucky it wasn't this other representative of the Stone Age Press...
"Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. President. If we could be one-one-hundredth as great as you and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been together in the White House, we'd take it right now and walk away winners."
--Dan Rather at a meeting for CBS affiliates, May 27, 1993. Quoted in Columbia Journalism Review Sept./Oct. 1993.
From ratherbiased.com
7 long years too late. Why wasn't he witness #UNO at the Impeachment Trial???
Freeh SWEARS this happened...just like this! SCARY STUFF!
Somebody pinch me!!!
I know there is a joke in there about jumping bones, but I can't come up with one right now.
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