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...
But, but, but...does Santa really wear a red suit? I'm confused. Louis Freeh totally discouraged me, but I'll read his book in hopes he will clear up why he failed to go after Clinton big time.
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So let me see. Clinton wouldn't meet with the head of the CIA (Woolsey). He didn't get along with the head of the FBI. He loathed the military. He was considered a security risk by the hapless Janet Reno. About the only part of the Executive branch that the Chief Executive got along with was the General Services Administration. What a lowlife punk.
I wouldn't go THAT far...all Freeh is doing is hawking a book and he knows that, like sex, clinton sells.
As far as I'm concerned, Freeh was a gutless toadie who was afraid of doing his job and coming out now in a 'tell all' book, proves it. He should have had the guts to do something about clinton when he had 'power' to do it.
Doubtful he had a single concern that those FBI files found their way to the White House.
Something stinks here and Freeh is part of it.
If bill fried Freeh there is nothing Freeh could have done about it.
I thought this was a done deal as far as it being fairly conclusive. It's just that nobody wants to pursue it; not then and not now.
And Congress still doesn't give a heck about substandard human rights in Red China or withholding the Most Favored Nation status as at least one small payback or incentive.
Same old, same old lip service from lawmakers...and it's pitiful.
Maybe now we'll all get to read the DiBello memorandum.
I can just imagine Clinton claiming that he met and discussed this and that with Mr. Freeh...leaving it his word against whoever.
Yeah, that's what I thought about that too.
Plausible deniability.
The very interesting thing about Clinton closets with skeletons is that the MSM has absolutely no interest in checking them out. OTOH, they are desperate to dig something up on Bush, who, regardless of the pros and cons of his policies, strives to be a straight shooter.
Thanks for the ping. I guarantee they'll focus more on the non-story of Karl Rove than this story.
Closets were full of skeletons, huh..gee there is a surprise..now if they would all just come out of the closet into full light of day, doing a chorus line.
Bill Clinton has been seeking every opportunity to bash W in recent days. 'Anyone want to bet it's because he got a heads-up on this book's release?
I suspect liver disease. People who have seen him up close say he has a yellowish tinge to his skin.
Don't tell ME 60 Minutes doesn't know how to get an audience.Is it REALLY worth falling off the wagon after 15 years?
And a lot of gullible folks will never admit their error.
To Freeh: So tell us what some of these skeletons are and why you didn't pursue them if you KNEW you A$$hole
Sure, but firing Freeh would have looked horrible for Clinton's scandal-plagued administration, and would have risked arousing some in Congress and the media to pay attention. Freeh is saying he didn't want to give Clinton any easy way to appoint a new FBI Director, though who knows whether Freeh really wanted to resign or whether he was enjoying his time as the FBI's #1.... given the Clinton administration and Reno, etc. I doubt Freeh could have been enjoying himself too much!
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