Posted on 10/08/2005 5:22:54 PM PDT by Zeppo
Under strong pressure from former President Bill Clinton's advisers, CBS's ''60 Minutes'' has agreed to read a statement denying an explosive charge being made on Sunday nght's program by former FBI director Louis Freeh, the WASHINGTON POST reports.
In the statement, Samuel ``Sandy'' Berger, Clinton's national security adviser, challenges Freeh's assertion that Clinton failed to press Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to cooperate with an investigation of the 1996 bombing of Khobar Towers in that country, and used the occasion to ask for a contribution to his presidential library. The Saudis made such a donation last year _ six years after the 1998 meeting.
Berger, who was at the meeting, said: ``The president strongly raised the need for Saudi officials to cooperate with us on the investigation into the attack on Khobar Towers at the time when the FBI was attempting to gain access to the suspects. The president did not raise in any fashion the issue of his library.''
Clinton spokesman Jay Carson said he told CBS's Mike Wallace that he had supportive accounts from five other former officials at the meeting, including those briefed about a private conversation between Clinton and Abdullah.
``The fair journalistic question is why they didn't call and get comments for their story from people who were in the room, such as Sandy Berger, and why they took until Friday afternoon to get that done,'' said Lanny Davis, a former White House lawyer, who tried to persuade ''60 Minutes'' producer Jeff Fager to allow him or another Clinton spokesman to appear on Sunday night's segment.
Carson, who called the Freeh book ``a total work of fiction.''
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Sandy Berger should be in Leavenworth doing hard time for treason, yet he will try to make people believe that Louis Freeh is a kook...Clinton hired him and prasied him until he wouldn't be a Clinton lap dog. CBS the lying Al Jezzera network of America...Where is Mike Wallace with the forged docs?
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I remember Rush making the prediction. By this time next week, Freeh's life will be in shambles.
Hey, Ted "Drowning woman rights advocate" Kennedy is their spokesman too, so Sandy is no suprise to me!
In other news, 60 minutes has agreed to allow convicted murderer Charles Manson to rebuke an editorial condeming BTK killer Dennis Rader.
"These charges against Dennis, are like, TOTAL $#%&* man! You hear me!! I'll get my family and come visit you in the middle of the F_&*$#@ night!!
I don't think they can pull this one off -- people are far more aware and of course we have the internet.
By the time the segment finally airs, the gist will be "It's Bush's fault".
Sandy Berger, even though he got a slap on the wrist for destroying classified documents, is still a criminal. What I can't understand is why clintoon and his cronies get away with committing every crime conceivable, yes even murder, and never get any pen time. What is it that makes these terrible people so special?
Not only that, but when it was revealed what Burglar did, Clinton made him out to be an inept buffoon. Which of course he is.
As Rush said, when it comes to believing Freeh or Bubba is there really a choice? I really had problems with the fact that Freeh seemed to turn a blind eye in the Clintons direction but maybe now we'll find out why.
we needed Freeh in front of a grand jury or a congressional hearing - not on a book tour and on 60 minutes. his stories will have no legs unfortunately.
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Check Sandy's shorts for corroborating data...(it's a dirty job, but someone's gotsta do it).
Sure hope Burglar doesn't speed on his way to '60 minutes'........he's still on probation!
He's an (in)credible witness...............LOL
He had to know this was coming, let's see what happens.
billy should of had them read this one.
Leave it to the liar-in-chief's hired liar to overstate his case, and therefore to discredit his own statement. All that it takes is one counterexample (or ten, or one hundred), of other stories in Freeh's book that have lots of independent corroboration to show that the book is indeed credible, and that as usual the CYA spin from the Clinton camp is false.
Freeh has no one to back him up. No one from the clinton administration will, and unfortunately no one from the Bush administration either. He's a man without a country. Unless he has some hard documentation.
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