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FORMER FBI HEAD: CLINTON WAS PROBLEM; 'CLOSETS WERE FULL OF SKELETONS'
The Drudge report ^ | Oct. 6, 2004 | Drudge

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.



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To: blogblogginaway
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.

James Kallstrom comes to mind. The nation may owe Freeh a debt of gratitude

161 posted on 10/06/2005 11:59:13 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (California bashers will be called out)
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To: Howlin

OMG.

I'm currently speechless...it will pass:)


162 posted on 10/06/2005 11:59:47 AM PDT by SE Mom (Keep an open mind; nothing will fall out.)
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To: LilDarlin

Don't blame white American males. We voted 61% for Dole.


163 posted on 10/06/2005 12:01:10 PM PDT by jjmcgo
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To: McGavin999

That will be the Media's perception of him, unless you are correct and he has some bombshells in the book that haven't been revealed.


164 posted on 10/06/2005 12:02:46 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Jim Robinson is the Ayatollah of Political Jihad)
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To: Lexington Green

Not that I know of, but he was assigned to get the "magic fluid"


165 posted on 10/06/2005 12:02:49 PM PDT by BushisTheMan
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To: McGavin999

I don't know...........can we preorder now? LOL.


166 posted on 10/06/2005 12:02:56 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: blogblogginaway
'Horses mouth' or 'fly on the wall'. . .it is so past time for more legitimate truth re Clinton to come to a greater light.

Imagine Hillary and Bill are feverishly working at running their interference. . .checking/challenging Freeh's book tour/interviews as we 'speak'. . .and maybe possible avengement by things more serious (they are worse than nasty/wretched). . .

Wondering as well, given what has been revealed; how CBS can edit out the 'bad parts' of Freeh interview.

(Do hope Wallace keeps his appointment with the public on Sunday. . .)

167 posted on 10/06/2005 12:04:04 PM PDT by cricket (No Freedom - No Peace)
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To: Rebelbase

Oh, the bombshells won't be in the book, they will be held in reserve to "assure his continued good health and reputation".


168 posted on 10/06/2005 12:04:17 PM PDT by McGavin999 (We're a First World Country with a Third World Press (Except for Hume & Garrett ))
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To: Americanwolf

LOL..and someone needs to tell Hitlery and McVain that "glogal warming" is always more evident in the summer...in Alaska.

:)


169 posted on 10/06/2005 12:05:44 PM PDT by goresalooza (Nurses Rock!)
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To: Spok

How do you eat an elephant?

One bite at a time.....

How do you destroy the Clinton legacy in the MSM?

One truth at a time.....

Me thinks Louis wants the sheeple to gorge on his book.

Sure, Louis will be trashed by the MSM, but if the sheeple even believe one less lie, or one more truth about Clinton, the legacy will eventually be eaten!


170 posted on 10/06/2005 12:06:46 PM PDT by Steely eyed killer of the deep
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To: blogblogginaway

Sean Hannity sounds like a kid at Christmas, as his show opens this afternoon.


171 posted on 10/06/2005 12:09:09 PM PDT by Graymatter
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To: Lexington Green
No, ... AG Reno was. Oh, ... never mind!
172 posted on 10/06/2005 12:09:32 PM PDT by jamaksin
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To: blogblogginaway

I'm glad Freeh is speaking out but why did he wait so long? Freeh could also have nailed Bubba in the 9/11 hearings...there was missed opportunity to bring Bubba down early on.

Instead, I'm having to boycott my local ABC news affiliate (WEAR-TV Pensacola) which seems to be salivating over Bubba's touring of our Gulf Coast and of the Katrina devastation. I can't get any decent news from them anymore...won't watch ever again.

Good post..good article..I have hope that the clintons will drown in their own feces soon enough.


173 posted on 10/06/2005 12:09:57 PM PDT by goresalooza (Nurses Rock!)
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To: blogblogginaway
I'd have to hear from Dan Rather before I decide whether to believe Freeh or not. After all, if you can't trust a highly distinguished member of the press corp, who can you trust?
174 posted on 10/06/2005 12:10:01 PM PDT by finnigan2
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To: b4its2late
Me too. Check out this thread and try to get around it.

Uh... thank-you... I suppose....
As an engineer, I can usually follow technical discussion fairly well, even in areas outside my own area of expertise. But there comes a point when geek-speak causes my breakers to trip to prevent a system overload. I'm afraid that thread is one of those situations where I have to admit my limitations are patheticly antiquated. I didn't have the slightes idea what they were talking about, even though I recognized that everything was posted intelligently in English. (((sigh)))

175 posted on 10/06/2005 12:10:21 PM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: Bahbah
z?���� z/?�Willie is blowing a gasket"

We can hope. . .OTOH; he just might fake it anyway. . .nothing iike a 'heart tremor' or somesuch to get the Clinton light refocused. . .

176 posted on 10/06/2005 12:10:29 PM PDT by cricket (No Freedom - No Peace)
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To: Quilla
I hope so..If he want`s to talk about Bubbas closet, he should mention the champion as well.

"I have more skeletons in my closet than Jeffrey Dahmer on a binge! Yowzaaahwoowee!"

177 posted on 10/06/2005 12:11:23 PM PDT by WillamShakespeare (Who is John Kerry?)
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To: Howlin
One click Buying at Amazon.com.

I'm clicking...I'm clicking...LOL

178 posted on 10/06/2005 12:11:35 PM PDT by Carolinamom (Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning......Psalm 30:5)
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To: goresalooza

LOL!!!


Although I look at the Temp and it is still 104 on 10/06/05 here in Arizona... Global warming??!!!

Nope wait... Scientiest have said that this plant goes through a 1500 year cycle of warming and cooling and weather patterns.

Global warming my tush!

:)


179 posted on 10/06/2005 12:12:02 PM PDT by Americanwolf (I Served proudly.... how dare you tell me I have no convictions...)
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To: Willie Green
I'm going to give it a whirl tonight. If I have any luck, I'll ping you......
180 posted on 10/06/2005 12:12:20 PM PDT by b4its2late (If you can remain calm, you just don't have all the facts.)
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