Posted on 10/07/2005 7:06:03 AM PDT by kddid
A spokesman for ex-president Clinton attacked a new book by former FBI director Louis Freeh that's sharply critical of Clinton's handling of the war on terrorism, calling Freeh "a man who's desperate to clear his name."
"This is clearly a total work of fiction by a man who's desperate to clear his name and sell books," Jay Carson told the Washington Post, noting that the former New Jersey judge contributed nearly $20,000 to Republicans, including President Bush, in the last campaign.
"It's unfortunate he'd stoop to this level in his attempt to rewrite history," Carson said.
Freeh's book, "My FBI: Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Fighting the War on Terror," offers a scorching account of Clinton's mishandling of the Khobar Towers bombing investigation.
The former top G-man is set to appear on CBS "60 Minutes" to detail his scathing revelations, including a claim that Clinton hit up Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah for a donation to his presidential library after signaling he wouldn't press him on the Khobar probe. "The former president declined to respond to this charge," CBS News reports on its web site. The Clinton camp told the Washington Post that "60 Minutes" would not accept any surrogate to rebut Freeh on camera once the former president declined to be interviewed.
Daniel Benjamin, a former Clinton counterterrorism official, said Freeh is "factually wrong." Clinton "pushed the crown prince quite hard," and eventually won Saudi cooperation that led to indictments in the case.
"Freeh has been clearly discredited by the 9/11 commission and the congressional joint inquiry," Benjamin insisted.
But Freeh may have witnesses who can back his story - including former President Bush.
In a 2003 op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, Freeh wrote that he turned to Bush 41 for help with the Khobar probe after Clinton refused. "After months of inaction, I finally turned to the former President Bush, who immediately interceded with [Saudi] Crown Prince Abdullah on the FBI's behalf," Freeh revealed.
"Mr. Bush personally asked the Saudis to let the FBI do one-on-one interviews of the detained Khobar bombers. The Saudis immediately acceded," he explained. "This was the investigative breakthrough for which we had been waiting for several years."
Freeh blamed Clinton's personal scandals for distracting both the White House and the FBI as the terrorist threat grew.
from a guy who looks kinda like CUrley with hair, this is ironic.
Projection, projection, projection!
GOP stooge? Who appointed this guy?
Who didn't know this would be the first thing to happen, and the Washington Post and the other sickos in the old media would be glad to push Clinton's side right away.
Some things never change.
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The old established/liberal/socialist media is America's most ruthless, relentless, and destructive enemy.
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Rush called it, didn't he? He said yesterday that it would only take 24 hours for the nuts and sluts defense team to circle the wagons and go after Freeh.
Clinton is a pathological LIAR.
Deny. deny, deny !!
"This is clearly a total work of fiction by a man who's desperate to clear his name and sell books,"
"It's unfortunate he'd stoop to this level in his attempt to rewrite history,"
Yes, sounds exactly like Bill Clinton.
I see Clinton still uses the tactics as when he was in office...never let a 24 hour news cycle pass without striking back at your enemy.
Well peoples, I don't know about you, but I am really sick and tired of the clintons and their crime and corruption....and she is as bad as he is, it just hasn't come out yet...remember: "birds of a feather flock together"...
After Bush gets thru, I'm going to be tired of the Bushes, but NOT for the same reasons, at least this President is leaving office with Pride, Honor, and Respectablity...
I think we just need to bury the clintons, and get some new faces in Washington "doesn't care" and in the White House...
How about it?
My thoughts exactly.
Carolyn
As with every Clinton scandal, the response is always the same: Don't attack the facts, attack the person who asserts those facts.
The attack on the messenger has begun. It will shock me if the 60 minutes interview doesn't turn out to be the same thing.
Jay Carson accuses Freeh of re-writing history...that is rich!
LOL. It isn't Freeh who is attempting to rewrite history.
Did I miss anything?
Congressman Billybob
I love the smell of whining liberals in the morning
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