FORMER FBI HEAD: CLINTON WAS PROBLEM; 'CLOSETS WERE FULL OF SKELETONS'

The Drudge report ^ | Oct. 6, 2004 | Drudge

[blogblogginaway]

Red Siren breaking on Drudge. Not linked yet

Update:

FBI FREEH UNLOADS ON CLINTON: 'CLOSETS WERE FULL OF SKELETONS'
Thu Oct 06 2005 14:07:50 ET

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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[Canadian Outrage]

Ya think this could be THE nail???? Let's hope so. They are like a virus, just when you think your rid of them, they mutate and pop up again!!

[Canadian Outrage]

That's it - THANK YOU. Dixie Mafia!!!

[Canadian Outrage]

I'll go and read your link now. Thank you.

[RetSignman]

Never say never, after all, she served two terms in the White house before and the same people who elected her are still amongst us BUT on the other hand she has to win her senate seat FIRST.

[Rockitz]

Now all we have to figure out is why the Bush Jr. "Justice" Dept. let him get away with it, and why the National Archives didn't lay a trap for Berger that would have preserved the stolen documents. And why Bush Sr. is so friendly with Sh#%head Clinton.

Filegate rears it's ugly head once again? Could it be there is blackmail material in those 900 FBI files that were in Clinton possession for an indeterminate period of time?

[NCjim]

Probably has nothing to do with their common link as professional politicians. Nope.

I have long believed that politics is akin to professional wrestling.

[onyx]

LOL --- it's must see tv --- hope 60 minutes doesn't
chop the interview into bits, so as to make Freeh look stupid.

[backhoe]

That's it - THANK YOU. Dixie Mafia!!! I'll go and read your link now. Thank you.

Thanks, and when you fell like mucking through even more swamplands and fever dreams, here is a huge post which brings a lot of names, places, and events of that miserable era together:

-Murder, Inc. --

[Czar]

"Could it be there is blackmail material in those 900 FBI files that were in Clinton possession for an indeterminate period of time?"

That has been, and continues to be, the speculation. Moreover, I cannot recall seeing anything that said those files had ever been returned or yanked back from the Clintons.

[pollyannaish]

Huh. I could have sworn he liked girls with a little meat on their bones.

That said, I have always like Freeh. He had his weaknesses just like anyone else, but he seemed to be a straight up kind of guy.

[LibWhacker]

That's like J. Edgar Hoover letting Al Capone skate and then years later writing a book saying, "Boy, that Al Capone sure had a lot of skeletons in his closet!"

[hipaatwo]

I'll post them:

#%&*$##^&$$# pieces of #$&$^&%&&!

[CyberAnt]

Hmmmm?? I'm on Road Runner in San Diego and I don't have any problem getting the Drudge website.

[Mo1]

Yea ... that was about what I was thinking

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[STARWISE]

"I feel my pain.............."

I'm so relieved to hear this and PRAYING that something moves the needle of the apathetic public over the dastardly Clintons. I believe Freeh is squeaky clean. How *would* you defend yourself against the slimiest president ever while trying your damnednest to learn what was always afoot to protect your country from his reprehensible actions .. or at least be informed of the schemes? He and the Secret Service knew and know a lot about those years. I think he was really torn .. stuck between the rock and the proverbial hard place.

I'm not expecting much from the lamestreams, but all the right-sided radio talkshow hosts will trumpet it, and I bet it will sell like hotcakes. He'll be well protected .. as he needs to be.

Truth will out .. YAY .. maybe some of the history books will start to reflect the absolute filth and depravity of this menace called Clinton.

[Fledermaus]

Watch your back there Freeh!

Now he'll be portrayed as a right wing extremist; a Republican hack; incompetent; etc. regardless of fact.

But then again, he did let raw FBI files be removed. Those files aren't even supposed to be read by anyone other than cleared FBI agents. When anyone requests a background check, even the White House, the FBI usually writes up a summary of the actual facts in the files.

They don't let all that raw information be seen in that much of it is unsubstantiated items. It could be they once interviewed a person's neighbors because they were up for some top secret clearance (I've been on the end of many of those phone calls and visits from the FBI every time my Air Force brother got another clearance as they updated his file with my information) and they were none too kind to him or said he had visitors at all hours of the night, etc.

But his book will be yet another volume in the massive library that will judge Clinton's presidency for the times as the unmitigated disaster it was.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Checked out that link. I'm out of the loop on details about this scandalous presidency. What does the excursus on the Starbucks slayings have to do with Slick Willy?

[wingman1]

Also, blue birds are blue.

[mikrofon]

X42 captured doing his daily lower-lip strengthening exercises...