Posted on 10/09/2005 11:03:19 AM PDT by FairOpinion
Louie Freeh will probably end up like Ron Brown and all the others
If recall Buzz Patterson who wrote Dereliction of Duty said pretty much the same thing as Freeh about Clinton
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Not quite as high as this. According to Freh, Clinton directly extorted the Saudis for a bribe to take off the pressure for FBI interviews of the Khobar Towers perps. Bribery is one of the few enumerated constitutional grounds for impeachment. Perjury can only be argued to be as a "high crime" or "misdemeanor." We all say how the Senate used that as a way to avoid convicting him.
I wonder if there's anything in the book about Hil and all the FBI files?
How would the clinton team have known that? We know the FBI has 'lost' evidence that favored the accused; created false evidence that favored the FBI's accusation; falsely accused citizens when there was NO evidence of their guilt; spent years trying to entice citizens into committing a crime that the citizen was not otherwise going to commit and they only did so reluctantly after YEARS of persuasion, tricks, and enticement by FBI operatives; and the FBI, instead of bringing charges against citizens it thought guilty of some crime, spent years hounding and harrassing citizens till they commited suicide.
No dirty tricks from the FBI? You have a short memory.
by Daniel Benjamin (counterterroism "expert" director under Clinton & journalist for Time magazine & Wall Street Journal) and Steven Simon
Former members of the National Security Council under Clinton relive the bureaucratic feuds centered on information-sharing between the CIA, FBI, and Pentagon in the days before 9/11.
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I think it makes perfect sense. The lack of trust anything clintoon was tremendous.
Carolyn
Bill Clinton was hosting an official White House dinner when he told his guests he needed to visit the bathroom.
And remember how the OLD MEDIA made fun of President Bush about going to the bathroom during his last UN visit? Well, no comment by them then during an official White House dinner.
When you gotta pee, you gotta pee, but when you gotta give DNA, you gotta pretend to go pee.
Mr Clinton soon referred to the FBI chief as “F****** Freeh”, seeing him as an agent for the Republicans.
sorry I dont buy it. clinton could have asked and gotten freehs resignation at any moment. He owned freeh like he did rieno. Freeh is trying to feather his nest. If he knew of clinton asking for a donation as a president that is bribery and freeh knowing about it and not reporting it is an acomplice and needs to be charged. I am sure clinton also pardoned himself before he left office.
Oh the horror he must have felt as an elitist with the realization that HE is no better than those who were slicked into thinking that he was better.
Hardly need one. "These scurillous accusations don't deserve a response" followed by stonewall followed by accusations that Freeh misused his position to produce the book followed by Congressional hearings focusing on Freeh's 'willful damaging of the Presidency' rather than the truth of the charges and culminating with Freeh being charged with something and jerked around until he's broke. Ask Linda Tripp.
Forgotten History: The Clinton Administration Found Ties Between Iraq and Al Qaeda
Stephen F. Hayes, writing in the Weekly Standard (Dec. 29, 2003-Jan. 5, 2003):
ARE AL QAEDA'S links to Saddam Hussein's Iraq just a fantasy of the Bush administration? Hardly. The Clinton administration also warned the American public about those ties and defended its response to al Qaeda terror by citing an Iraqi connection.
For nearly two years, starting in 1996, the CIA monitored the al Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan. The plant was known to have deep connections to Sudan's Military Industrial Corporation, and the CIA had gathered intelligence on the budding relationship between Iraqi chemical weapons experts and the plant's top officials. The intelligence included information that several top chemical weapons specialists from Iraq had attended ceremonies to celebrate the plant's opening in 1996. And, more compelling, the National Security Agency had intercepted telephone calls between Iraqi scientists and the plant's general manager.
Iraq also admitted to having a $199,000 contract with al Shifa for goods under the oil-for-food program. Those goods were never delivered. While it's hard to know what significance, if any, to ascribe to this information, it fits a pattern described in recent CIA reporting on the overlap in the mid-1990s between al Qaeda-financed groups and firms that violated U.N. sanctions on behalf of Iraq.
The clincher, however, came later in the spring of 1998, when the CIA secretly gathered a soil sample from 60 feet outside of the plant's main gate. The sample showed high levels of O-ethylmethylphosphonothioic acid, known as EMPTA, which is a key ingredient for the deadly nerve agent VX. A senior intelligence official who briefed reporters at the time was asked which countries make VX using EMPTA. "Iraq is the only country we're aware of," the official said. "There are a variety of ways of making VX, a variety of recipes, and EMPTA is fairly unique."
That briefing came on August 24, 1998, four days after the Clinton administration launched cruise-missile strikes against al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan and Sudan (Osama bin Laden's headquarters from 1992-96), including the al Shifa plant. The missile strikes came 13 days after bombings at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania killed 257 people--including 12 Americans--and injured nearly 5,000. Clinton administration officials said that the attacks were in part retaliatory and in part preemptive. U.S. intelligence agencies had picked up "chatter" among bin Laden's deputies indicating that more attacks against American interests were imminent.
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The al Shifa plant in Sudan was largely destroyed after being hit by six Tomahawk missiles. John McWethy, national security correspondent for ABC News, reported the story on August 25, 1998:
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he U.S. had been suspicious for months, partly because of Osama bin Laden's financial ties, but also because of strong connections to Iraq. Sources say the U.S. had intercepted phone calls from the plant to a man in Iraq who runs that country's chemical weapons program.
The senior intelligence officials who briefed reporters laid out the collaboration. "We knew there were fuzzy ties between [bin Laden] and the plant but strong ties between him and Sudan and strong ties between the plant and Sudan and strong ties between the plant and Iraq." Although this official was careful not to oversell bin Laden's ties to the plant, other Clinton officials told reporters that the plant's general manager lived in a villa owned by bin Laden.
http://tinyurl.com/9ubeu
For what?
His future political ambitions?
Or perhaps his vanity?
Maybe he has a global agenda?
If Freeh were to be feathering his nest he would have done it long before now.
LOL..same old stuff. Problem could be if the Saudis verify Freeh. Doubtful they would do it, though.
I, too, share your suspicions. Freeh went along with too many of Clinton's schemes during those years. At the time I wondered if Freeh had any integrity at all. Remember TWA 800 and the Atlanta bombing? Freeh defends himself by asserting that he didn't want to give Clinton a chance to put someone worse in there.
But we know Freeh needs money, that is why these books are written. He has children who need education, etc. I will read his book with interest and decide what I think of him after that.
If only the White House taping system had still been in place..........
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