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...
Louie, Louie, Oh No, we gotta go.
Yeah Yeah Yeah.
Louie, Louie,
Didn't Linda Tripp get plastic surgery.
Think GA did do an update; somewhat, when the book went to 'paperback'. . .but do agree it is worth revisiting.
It may be only more than a few sceptics who might see some light here; but hey. . .
Meantime, the rest will believe that this is no more than a 'stop Hillary' campaign or find some other lame rationale to excuse and refuse the truth of Bill Clinton - and his 'wife'.
Clinton hasn't looked too great and I figured it was simply his health problems, but you may have a point about him taking swings at Bush because something is brewing that won't be good for him. What is odd is that when Hillary showed up at the Astrodome right after their vacation, she looked absolutely horrible. I remember thinking "she looks like someone just told her she would not be the candidate in 2008." Or, speculation only, that if there was any real investigation of corruption in Louisiana, there was something she was very very nervous about.
AG Reno was too busy blowing up children in Waco. She couldn't be bothered with Free's fantasies about Clinton. And Free didn't do a damn thing but retire at tax payer expense and write a book about what he knew. And the taxpayers can purchase it at the retail price. I wouldn't pay 5 cents for all this vast knowledge he sat on till it had a dollar amount.
[for sure]
.execrable scum!
(thanks to John Hinderaker/Power Line, for that new word - for me - and happy to use it)
"I had to switch channels when Greta interviewed Clinton."
My respects to you for being able to watch the show before she interviewed Clinton.
Those who lust for power have found out they can control the internet through the 'hardware'.
Saves them the trouble of trying to get new laws passed.
Agree. . .this interiew offered two good reason's not to watch.
"Imagine Hillary and Bill are feverishly working at running their interference. . .checking/challenging Freeh's book tour/interviews as we 'speak'. ."
Yes, but they have staff to do that for them.
"After reading the part about where Bill excused himself to go to the bathroom, but instead went to give a blood sample, I was thinking:
At least when Bush had to go to the bathroom at the U.N., he wasn't lying about it."
The people there probably thought Bill was going out to get a headjob.
Anyone who wants a primer on the Clintonistas should get this book. I've had it since it was first published.
You're right, I forgot about that.
"Chris Matthews despises Matt Drudge."
I'll bet Matt is really losing sleep over that!
Bill Clinton wasn't worth a bucket of warm spit. His admirers are primarily people who benefitted at the public trough.
Yep. Deserves it.
Oh. . .I know; it was just 'Freeper' license making a point. ;^)
Of course when it comes to the President of CBS; Bill might be moved to call and share a joke about some old FBI files that Hillary found. . .
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There are certain things that, once you hear them, you never forget-- Judge Freeh's quote, before our August Representatives, is one of them.
Naturally, the Media Hive did not find it worth remarking about-- unlike anything defamatory about, say, Tom Delay... or the current President.
Rham?
Ah, Rahm! One of a cast of thousands of shills, sycophants, and enablers...
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