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...
> DID ANYone hear Clinton's response to Freeh's book.
I did not... but even if I had Fox on when it was broadcast, the mute button would have been hit so fast, that I would not know what he said.
So, Freeh was 0 for 3?
If my recollection is correct Janet Reno testified that Clinton was out of the loop in the Charlie Trie investigation of funny money from Asia because Clinton was implicated and was a security risk.
Did you catch that sleaze bag Lanny Davis on BOR tonight? Cripes that guy is MUTE material. I cannot listen to that lackey.
I agree Ann. They are ORGANIZED CRIME. ANOTHER Clinton in the White House SHOULD cause a revolution. I just don't think it can happen. I can't believe it could happen. Nobody in the Red States could stomach a Hillary Clinton President and a what, First Husband? First Man? BLECH!!
Yeah Nagin. He had sure better not skate out of this NO mess and neither should blank brain!! I kept thinking, HOW DARE THEY BLAME PRESIDENT BUSH when these two FIRST RESPONDERS responsible for THEIR state couldn't get off their own arses and move some people out. There were how many buses sitting in water to the roof tops? Blanco NEVER called out the National Guard. What a couple of LOSERS. NEITHER should be re-elected.
To be honest, sitting here in Western Canada, I just COULDN'T BELIEVE it when clinton won a SECOND term. I nearly cried.
Oh I am VERY familiar with the tainted blood scandal. I have a hemopheliac son who has Hep C from tainted blood. Fortunately he is healthy, no liver damage, completely normal liver function tests each year and he is not a drinker. But as anybody knows, Hep C is called the silent killer. Oh yes, Bill Clinton has "touched" my family personally!! CO
Clinton sold the Chinese the technology of how to arm warheads with nukes. For a nice chunk of $$$$$ of course to make sure they could pay for enough votes to win a second time. It's ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE to me, that these two people could get away with SO MUCH. They did so much damage to the country and to people and it was all so obvious and yet NOTHING was ever done. !!!!!!
I meant BOR last night. LOL
Damnation! My sincere regrets.
The Clintons ( remember the "2 for 1" nonsense they peddled? ) really caused me to lose a lot of faith in Americans, who are normally very attuned to frauds and charlatans.
One of the arguments I used to bandy about was "is Clinton really the problem, or is he a symptom of an underlying problem with a substantial number of Americans?"
Blaming him entirely was sort of like blaming a fever for the underlying disease.
Normally, a sitting President like the first George Bush, is nearly impossible to defeat, but the hammering he took from the Media, the bleeding-off of votes by the "hand grenade with a bad haircut" ( Perot ), and the fawning, shameless promotion of the Clintons by their pals in the Media proved the exception to that rule.
I dubbed the nineteen-nineties "The Decade of Fraud(s)," and we are still reaping the bitter harvest of allowing ourselves to be duped so thoroughly. Kyoto, the Oslo Accords, the proliferation of "nukes to nutcases,"- you name it, we got screwed without even getting kissed. And sadly, there are legions of Kool-Aid drinkers who pine for "the Golden Age of Clinton." If you can stomach the fever swamps & echo chambers of DemocratUnderground, BartCop, or SmirkingChimp, take a look and you'll see what I mean. I really do fear for the future governability of my country with people like that around.
We used to have better sense as a group.
I think you just nailed it. It is a symptom of the underlying cause. I visited DU ONCE and I never read such vulgar, vicious people in my life. THAT is the clinton support and there seems to be a lot of folks who go down that bunny trail. And then there is the power of the media. I'm sure that the alphabet networks and CNN have two criteria - LIBERAL and Democrat. Otherwise you don't work there. Absolutely everything they put out is slanted. I learned years ago that the Media was trying to affect the outcome of elections. Their reaction to GWB's re-election was something else. It spoke for itself. The Media really don't get it. Middle America is Conservative. It is the East and West Coasts. Oregon should be blown off the map, sort of like Ontario and Quebec here.
Tainted blood killed my father. It took over 20 years to do it.
I have often wondered why GW did not prosecute bubba the day he took office.
Great post backhoe. You make an excellent case of the need for new media, we are here to counter their nonsense.
Are we even sure that we *survived* it yet???
Pinz
You certainly have my sympathy and empathy. I don't know what I'm facing. My son is 34 years old.
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