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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: Ann Archy
Googling around, I'm reminded that the real tipping of the case to Hanssen (double s) came when an ex-KGB official sold Hanssen's Soviet intelligence file BACK to us, including much of the original materials from the drops. As I said, the Russians themselve's didn't know Hanssen's real identity. Nevertheless, Hanssen's prints were on garbage bags which the Russians had thoughtfully kept and which were returned in response to the request for "everything."

Well, I said I didn't have the book right in front of me anymore.

361 posted on 10/06/2005 6:54:32 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: justche
How is it that Lewinsky and Tripp escaped the clinton style retribution?

Linda Tripp's tapes and the blue dress.
362 posted on 10/06/2005 6:57:11 PM PDT by hummingbird (21st Century Newsreporting - "Don't get me started!")
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To: floriduh voter

He stayed long enough for Bush to get through the transition period. He resigned in June of '01 I believe.


363 posted on 10/06/2005 7:06:06 PM PDT by blogblogginaway
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To: blogblogginaway
Perhaps it's been said before (I just got "here"); but ISN'T THIS AN ADMISSION OF CULPABILITY? If Freeh covered up for the pig, isn't he also a traitor?
364 posted on 10/06/2005 7:17:22 PM PDT by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: LynnHam
"I am surprised that 60 Minutes will be airing the interview"

Well, we have to see what they do with it before we give them the slightest credit -- they could turn it into a total hatchet job on Freeh, as they have done to so many others. Remember that they don't do any 'live' interviews (so far as I know), it is always record, then dice and splice, so they can produce a hatchet job ala Michael Moore-on that creates an Alice-in-Wonderland inversion of reality.

Still, I would think that Freeh and/or his agents did some pretty tough negotiating (else they are fools) with 60 Minutes before granting them the first big 'exclusive' interview..... and CBS may be ready to try to start redeeming its reputation (don't know that it will ever succeed). We'll see what turns out - I may actually watch 60 Minutes for the first time in many years!
365 posted on 10/06/2005 7:19:18 PM PDT by Enchante (Mary Mapes, Dan Rather: so proud to be genuine FRAUDcasters!)
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To: Old Professer
We made a big mistake when we bagan referring to Bill in the past tense.

How about all the naive posters on this site praying for him during his operation
Talk about being Stuck on Stupid

Some never learn
366 posted on 10/06/2005 7:20:30 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: andyk

I use Road Runner and am having no problems bringing up Drudge.


367 posted on 10/06/2005 7:24:06 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Plutarch
Gee, I wonder if Freeh might come under personal attack in the MSM?

Maybe he stole a bunch of pens from his office. Seems like that's the threshold these days being a discredited witness.
368 posted on 10/06/2005 7:34:07 PM PDT by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: Lexington Green

no. It was Janet Reno's job to arrest Clinton


369 posted on 10/06/2005 7:45:26 PM PDT by stevengrant98 (its not liberals, its lieberals)
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To: cricket

I wasn't very tuned in at the time that the Aldrich book came out, but I would think he has a very good chance to get a much better hearing in the wake of Freeh's book, especially if there are a lot more details and serious allegations to come in Freeh's book. I don't know if Aldrich has the stomach for dealing with more MSM slime, but if he does he should re-issue his book with a new forward supplementing what comes out from Freeh and reviewing how hideous the MSM SAPs have been in distorting, smearing, and ignoring those who have tried to address these incredibly important issues for the public.


370 posted on 10/06/2005 7:45:58 PM PDT by Enchante (Mary Mapes, Dan Rather: so proud to be genuine FRAUDcasters!)
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To: VadeRetro

The Bureau and the Mole??


371 posted on 10/06/2005 7:49:14 PM PDT by pbear8 (We loved Wynn Las Vegas)
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To: pbear8
Yep, blew the book title. Also, it's Hanssen with two "s"es. I also messed up how they caught him.

But it's straight enough for now and I'm done with it.

372 posted on 10/06/2005 7:52:54 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Come back, Shane!)
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To: Enchante

Thanks for ping E. Been off the threads most of the day. I shall closely read this post that is for sure.


373 posted on 10/06/2005 7:54:03 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: VadeRetro

I looked it up on Amazon because I was interested in your reference. Did you like it? Would you recommend it?


374 posted on 10/06/2005 7:54:45 PM PDT by pbear8 (We loved Wynn Las Vegas)
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Another Clinton appointee who violated his oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic? Shocking.


375 posted on 10/06/2005 7:55:34 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: South40
Nevertheless, he'd have more credibility if he had spoken out sooner instead of now when he's trying to sell a book.

Do you think he was under any restraints not to publish until a certain amount of time had passed? I remember reading about someone who couldn't publish until a year had passed...something like that. I can't even remember where I read it...the memory being the first to go and what-not!
376 posted on 10/06/2005 7:58:41 PM PDT by hummingbird (21st Century Newsreporting - "Don't get me started!")
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To: Marine_Uncle

Wow, the Freeh book shot up to #8 in Amazon sales in just the past few hours -- it was below #40,000 when I first saw this thread today, so between Drudge and Free Republic and anyone else linking to it this book is now officially HOT stuff..... hope it will be a #1 before long, and #1 on the NY Slimes list, and then maybe the MSM SAPs won't dare ignore.


377 posted on 10/06/2005 7:59:29 PM PDT by Enchante (Mary Mapes, Dan Rather: so proud to be genuine FRAUDcasters!)
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To: pbear8
Yes. I'd say it was memorable, although you can't prove it by my performance here.

Freeh's career and Hanssen's are paralleled throughout. Since both went high up at the FBI, you might expect the parallels to be strong and they are. Freeh emerges as a flawed hero, Hanssen as the classic man with a double-life.

378 posted on 10/06/2005 8:00:48 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Come back, Shane!)
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To: hummingbird

Certainly he may have a lot more freedom now about what he can tell the public. It would have been best in so many ways if he'd added his voice, even behind the scenes, to the pressures for the impeachment and conviction of Clinton back in '98.... and if he'd gone public during the impeachment period then it might have been a lot harder for the Senate to weasel out of the matter.....

I sure do hope Freeh now has a lot of useful things to say about Clinton's mendacious ineptitude and worse when it comes to dealing with terrorism!! Just the item about Clinton not pressing Prince Abdummah for FBI access to the prisoners in the Khobar Towers investigation (and then hitting Abdummah up for a donation to the Clinton Harem, er Library) is HUGE.... I hope Freeh has a lot more to say, and that he orchestrates his media appearances carefully to set traps and snares for all the Clintonistas who will be flooding the MSM with counter-interviews.


379 posted on 10/06/2005 8:04:27 PM PDT by Enchante (Mary Mapes, Dan Rather: so proud to be genuine FRAUDcasters!)
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To: kcvl
'His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out'...

His closets were full of non-skeletal chubby interns waiting to burst out too. Must have been crowded in there.


380 posted on 10/06/2005 8:14:38 PM PDT by Polybius
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