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.''
Developing...
"...supportive accounts from five other former officials..., including those briefed about a private conversation...."
Yeah, a desparate Sandy Berger quickly (last week, probably) told five other people about the meeting, and then asked them to make supportive accounts.
Clinton never fails to amaze when using ambiguous language to lie and obfuscate.
The media (and academia) is populated with sixties rebels, who considered it a superior path to evil business, or, God forbid, the military.
They're overgrown adolescents with authority complexes. It's not rational. It's all about the emotions. Republicans, capitalists, heterosexuals, men... they're all father figures. Socialism is just a handy rationale, in my opinion, and it hardly matters that it's an obvious failure.
Freeh: Stay away from Fort Marcy Park!!
Mmmm, just a guess, but I have a feeling Katie and Matt are not having Louis Freeh on three mornings in a row this week to discuss his book.....
Louie: Then we share something in common, Mister President.
HF
Who here finds it funny that Clinton has to use a convict who's about to have his probation revoked to refute the allegations of a former FBI director?
Great point.
We're to believe Sandy Burglar?
Sorry, I think I said exactly what you said.
The Clinton Smear Machine is hard at work.
Great minds think alike, and all that...
Short notice on a Damage Control Work Order.
Great.
Then let's have Billy Boy release his list of donors to the library.
Can they not look forward and see there is no future for them?
PRay for W and Our Freedom Fighters
I still wonder:
WHY didn't freeh speak up when billyblythe was violationg our Nation?
That's good enough for 60 Minutes.
This must be a chapter out of Mary Mapes' book!
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LANNY DAVIS = Chino Hills Slasher KEVIN COOPER Defense Attorney
LANNY DAVIS = Member of National Lawyers Guild, a Communist Front Organization
SANDY BERGER = Chief Washington, D.C. Lobbyist for Communist China
SANDY BERGER = Guaranteed us on 'Meet the Press' that there was "No Way" the Communist Chinese could acquire our precious missile and space satellite technology when they were launching our Space Satellites in China, which they promptly did acquire
BILL CLINTON = Actively supported our terrorist enemy, Communist North Vietnam's Dictator HO CHI MINH, against us and Freedom for a then Free South Vietnam during the Vietnam War
BILL CLINTON = Refused 3 free offers from the Sudan during the 1990's to give us our terrorist enemy OSAMA bin LADEN on a silver platter before he could hit us real hard here at home =
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