Posted on 10/06/2005 11:01:02 AM PDT by blogblogginaway
Edited on 10/07/2005 5:24:28 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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.
Developing...
Now he tells us.
I dunno if I can stomach that. If I remember, I'll try and get a FReepmail off to you on Sunday evening, and you can give me a Reader's Digest summary of what was said.
I could believe it. Clinton did diddly squat when it came to the Khobar Tower bombing.
"Wasn't it Freeh's responsibility to arrest the Clintons?"
Hillary maybe. At that time, Bill could only be indicted by the US Senate.
FBI MOLE?? Hansen was a Spy, right? I'm confused about what you said.
This is a must have book! I am so glad he is speaking out, but as Rush said today, he will be discredited big time by the media .
"CBS is absolutely predictable in its uncompromising loyalty to Clinton and covering up the real Clinton legacy."
Actually, the whole MSM has been in a "relatively" (selectively) truthful period for some months now. They are rebuilding credibility for 2008, so when they start lying like crazy again, more people will believe them.
That's what the Democrat party of the Clntons is...ORGANIZED CRIME....that includes Rahm Emanuel....and all other Clntonista Kool-Aid drinkers.
maybe thats a ploy to get him talking you know how he talks and talks and talks......
Must of been spending some time with John F'ing Kerry... Having spent several months at Kohbar Towers in 1991 and 1993, and having fellow squadron mates there when the bombing occurred, Clinton's hollow threats of revenge still makes my blood boil!
Yeah, if he'd had the cojones to indict the President, he coulda been a conteder....
Thanks for the clarification. I thought he meant that he was a mole FOR the FBI. I always thought there was something very fishy about the case especially since he was able to keep his pension. And he KNEW Clinton was a criminal!! I guess it takes one to know one.
ROFLOL! Good one.
Isn't there a law against a President hitting up a head of another country for a contribution? There should be.
Did Freeh quit or did W ask him to leave? I can't remember.
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