Posted on 10/20/2005 5:10:21 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
In November 1997, Mr. Freeh sent Attorney General Janet Reno a 27-page memo about allegations of illicit fund-raising during the 1996 campaign. Much "soft money" came into the Clinton-Gore camp "from alarming sources, including the People's Republic of China." Miss Reno refused Mr. Freeh's recommendation that an independent counsel run the case.
Then the president made a mistake. In an offhand remark to the press, he claimed that had the FBI briefed the White House, he would have ensured that there was no "undue influence" involved. But as Mr. Freeh writes, two FBI agents had briefed Rand Beers, a senior National Security Council staff member. To Mr. Freeh, it was "inconceivable" that such explosive material would not have reached the president. He writes, "It's not in my character to lose my temper." So he vented his anger by helping to "draft a press statement that said, in effect, the White House was lying."
But to Mr. Freeh, the most striking instance of malfeasance came in Bill Clinton's attempt to stifle the investigation into the 1996 terror attack on the Khobar Towers military housing project in Saudi Arabia, killing 19 Americans. Mr. Freeh saw the carnage first-hand and he vowed to bring the killers to justice. But the Saudis, despite soothing assurances, feared offending other Arab neighbors, so they stalled.
To summarize a complex situation: Whether the FBI would have access to evidence required that the president make a direct request to the Saudi ruler, Crown Price Abdullah. According to information reaching Mr. Freeh, "Clinton briefly raised the subject only to tell the crown prince that he certainly understood the Saudis' reluctance to cooperate. Then, according to my sources, he hit Abdullah up for a contribution for the still-to-be-built Clinton presidential library."
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More Clinton venality stinking up the office of the President of the United States. It's incredibly informative that the Democrats still revere the most corrupt president in history.
It speaks volumes about their world view. They worship power above all else and will do anything necessary to achieve it.
Good Article. I always felt that Freeh was at odds with the White House.
People say, Why didn't Freeh do something? As long as he was working for Reno, nothing was going to happen.
IMHO this was the elephant in the impeachment room ... the Devil with the Blue Dress ON was a smokescreen which diverted America's attention from actions far worse - witness the recent Chinese space launches.
And as long as Gorelick was on the 9-11 Omission, nothing substantive was going to be uncovered.
bookmarked
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