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...
Everything I had heard about Freeh was that he was a great FBI agent and man of character. I think, unfortunately, no matter who was heading the bureaus and agencies during the Clinton era, they were going to be tainted.
I will be real interested to see if the MSM will attack Louis or treat him fair in interviews.
YES.....makes my day.....and I was sickened by the fact that he was going to be on Greta's show last night....which I regularly MISS! Maybe this will cool the relationship between the Bush's and the Clinton's too???
It's simply stunning, isn't it?
Expect the dirt to start flying from the Clintons now; of course, Freeh can always say they're trying to smear somebody who disagreed with them, right?
Louie, Louie, Louie, Louie, Louie, Louieye...
"Gee, I wonder if Freeh might come under personal attack in the MSM?"
Of course he will. It was his FBI that allowed the 911 attackers to plan and execute their dastardly deed.
See my tagline.
That's a good one! Price is just right! lol
Level 3 Peering Changes Causing Headaches (Why Drudge is down for some with Work Around)
I'm on Road Runner, and I can get to Drudge just fine.
"There are a few thousand of us out here on Road Runner, etc that are still blocked from the Drudge Report"
Why are you blocked from Drudge?
When do you suppose Tenent's book is coming out?
Oh my, want to read this bok, Hope Freeh survives the onslaught of attacking the messenger.
RE: Cash from Chinese.
Total paid to Clintons/DNC, et.al Was $76,500,000, +/- 5%, and you can take that to the bank.... as the Clintons did.
No doubt the W-88 was sold.
What's Louis doing selling a book?...... or is there some other indications of looking at some of the FBI activities while under his tenure?
This isn't news. :)
After Linda Tripp learned that the Clintons had learned that the FBI had learned that the last person Vince Foster spoke to in the White House was Tripp, Tripp became very afraid and began taping her phone calls, including those from Lewinsky.
Those tapes established the needed evidence against Clinton and once Ken Starr got them there was no way to dilute the damage done. A living, ridiculed Tripp was either to deal with than a martyr. Although Clinton got off easy with the murder of James McDougal.
Linda Tripp saved her own life and that of Monica Lewinsky with those tapes.
The Clintons are amazing. Bill had his spouse's lover killed and his lover's spouse killed. And, Webb Hubbell is obviously the father of Chelsea, just look at photos and Bill has claimed to women that he is sterile.
They might want to be careful attacking him, who knows what he has that didn't get put in this book.
Sort of "reserve ammunition" if you will.
I can just imagine Clinton claiming that he met and discussed this and that with Mr. Freeh...leaving it his word against whoever.
Wow, this is going to be a blockbluster interview if they actually broadcast it.
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