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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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
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To: blogblogginaway

Could the Clinton house of cards be in trouble? Will more come forward to expose the criminal acts of the Clinton administration? Could indictments be in Bill and HIll's future? Keep praying!


221 posted on 10/06/2005 12:46:40 PM PDT by Rockitz (Geena YES, Hill NO!)
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To: Americanwolf

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

Yes...and it's Georgius Prescottius Busheeus XXXVII's fault...from the year 500 A.D.

LOL


222 posted on 10/06/2005 12:47:03 PM PDT by goresalooza (Nurses Rock!)
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To: Calpernia; lacylu; Shadow5644; Alabama MOM

Bump


223 posted on 10/06/2005 12:49:10 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (Lavender Essential Oil, should be in first aid kit,uses: headaches, sinus,insect bites,sore muscles)
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To: goresalooza; Americanwolfsbrother
ping to best original use of its George bushes fault! :)

LOL

i give that a 7 out of 10... :)
224 posted on 10/06/2005 12:49:16 PM PDT by Americanwolf (I Served proudly.... how dare you tell me I have no convictions...)
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To: Hank Rearden
"Now all we have to figure out is why the Bush Jr. "Justice" Dept. let him get away with it, and why the National Archives didn't lay a trap for Berger that would have preserved the stolen documents. And why Bush Sr. is so friendly with Sh#%head Clinton."

My thoughts exactly...

225 posted on 10/06/2005 12:50:15 PM PDT by Czar (StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: wayoverontheright

Since this book had to be vetted by the FBI, you can be sure there are those still at the Agency who are loyal to billandhill.


226 posted on 10/06/2005 12:53:06 PM PDT by OldFriend (One Man With Courage Makes a Majority ~ Andrew Jackson)
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To: Sam Cree

"... 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...."

Or, they fabricate a story out of thin air.


227 posted on 10/06/2005 12:53:26 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ERADICATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH!)
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To: aShepard

totally off topic..but I was channel surfing last night during the ballgames..caught about one minute of Martha's apprentice....I'd never seen it before...Martha's daughter was on...and she is a dead ringer for a younger Janet Reno...I was looking at her..not knowing then who she was..and I had this weird thought I'd seen her before.then realized it was just like Reno..


228 posted on 10/06/2005 12:55:24 PM PDT by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: Erik Latranyi
I know Pres. Bush yearns for consensus and has numerous times worked with democrats (Worked very well in Texas) but you can only take so much.

I think the days of playing poker and "back dooring" the dems are coming to an end in this administration. Democrats are starting to draw serious blood with this "indictment" on Delay and will have to be met with swift retribution. Politics is one thing, bringing up bogus charges in trying to alter leadership is another.

Also I believe the main reason Pres. Bush picked Ms. Miers was not because she was on the "approved" list (Easier to confirm) but had an intimate knowledge in which he knows how her philosophical views are in accordance to the Constitution.
229 posted on 10/06/2005 12:57:41 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: mosquitobite
I believe that will be part of her scheme if she sees she's got a real shot at becoming Prez., but she will file separation papers, not divorce.

She knows one of the biggest stumbling blocks in her way to getting votes from the right or moderates will be the thought of that white trash buffoon wandering around the White House again.

She would, of course, drop the separation after she won and the media and the rest of the socialist world applaud at the reuniting of Hill and Bill.
230 posted on 10/06/2005 12:58:52 PM PDT by RetSignman
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To: Americanwolf
ping to best original use of its George bushes fault! :)

LOL

i give that a 7 out of 10... :)

No way!!! That was at least a 9!

231 posted on 10/06/2005 12:59:58 PM PDT by mozrock (They're not people, they're hippies!)
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To: Burlem
Oh my, want to read this bok, Hope Freeh survives the onslaught of attacking the messenger.

Will be interesting to see how many of the MSM outlets ignore him, his book, etc. They'll probably not give him the time of day to promote his book...just like somebody else recently who the MSM ignored because it reflected negatively on HC, I believe. Most likely, he'll be heard only on Fox News and conservative talk radio. But that should be enough to make the book a best seller IMHO.

232 posted on 10/06/2005 1:00:45 PM PDT by nfldgirl ("I love a good rant every now-n-then!")
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To: Howlin

Is it popcorn time ?


233 posted on 10/06/2005 1:01:17 PM PDT by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: mozrock; goresalooza; Americanwolfsbrother

after further review and lobbying from the judge from Pennsylvania...

The score has been adjusted.... 9 out of 10.


234 posted on 10/06/2005 1:03:27 PM PDT by Americanwolf (I Served proudly.... how dare you tell me I have no convictions...)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

What a buffoon!


235 posted on 10/06/2005 1:03:36 PM PDT by nfldgirl ("I love a good rant every now-n-then!")
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To: rollo tomasi
I think the days of playing poker and "back dooring" the dems are coming to an end in this administration.

After everything thrown at this President since 2000, there is little chance of a change in this Administration's approach to the Dems.

Bush is not like that. Period. It would be out of character for him to attack the way we want him to.

236 posted on 10/06/2005 1:06:12 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (9-11 is your Peace Dividend)
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To: ml/nj
Why do these guys only get religion when they start their book tours

Up until you publish a book and the remarks are so public that your death will be very suspicious, if you want to live you have to keep your mouth shut.

237 posted on 10/06/2005 1:06:55 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (I jez calls it az I see it.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Just caught a little of this being discussed on Rush Limbaugh today.

I wonder what Freeh could tell us about the FBI files that ended up in the Clintons' possession, the ones that helped reveal an affair Henry Hyde had.


238 posted on 10/06/2005 1:07:47 PM PDT by girlangler
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To: RetSignman

"Is it REALLY worth falling off the wagon after 15 years?"

good point! I'll monitor the run up to the show and make the decision then. thanks for acknowledging my accomplishment!


239 posted on 10/06/2005 1:08:41 PM PDT by Archytekt
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To: Americanwolf
freech had plenty of time to be an American hero......he refused....

he was an enabler....

240 posted on 10/06/2005 1:12:00 PM PDT by cherry
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