FORMER FBI HEAD: CLINTON WAS PROBLEM; 'CLOSETS WERE FULL OF SKELETONS'

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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Very interesting. Thanks for the ping.

Here's more of what Trannie said from that old thread.

(In the excerpt below, the blue is me asking him/her to elaborate on Freeh. The bold emphasis has been added.)

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The good Judge [Freeh] has seen most of it, and is sitting on a powder keg that if it falls into the wrong hands could guarantee Democrat (and Communist Chinese) control of the WH for about as long as they want it.
This doesn't make sense. How could Freeh's information ensure Democrat control of the WH? If Clinton/Gore are so corrupt and Freeh is sitting on a powder keg, how would it help the Democrats if it became known? Because it goes back to Bush the Elder?
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Hoover was able to insure his tenure as FBI director for life with the files he collected. Even though there were some rather interesting things in his own personal life. He still retained power. People that had a hook into him were able to use him, and they did. He was infamous for claiming that there wasn't any mafia, for example.
To the good judge. Hoover was able to accumulate a truly massive amount of information, all before there were such things as the internet and computers. His total agent staff was smaller than today, also.
So, what sort of information do you think that Judge Freeh has collected? From all his agents that worked on Foster (they did, behind the scenes), Ron Brown (before and after his hitting the mountain), the Riadys, Cosco, Richardson, Reno (that one alone would make for some very interesting reading), Gore, Buddhist temples, various and sundry dry hole investigations by the Justice Department (the decision to prosecute or appoint independent counsels or not was made by Reno, but the investigations were all done by the FBI), Maria Hisa, Wen Ho Lee, Los Alamos, Waco, et al, etc. The list would take up quite a bit of time just to type it all.
So, is it possible that Judge Freeh has raw data copies of all the various investigations including all the individual agent reports? What interesting things do you think he knows? When was he appointed (and under what circumstances? - His predecessor was summarily fired and removed from his office by marshals the day before Foster died and Louis Freeh was appointed to the position that day). All that even though the President can not fire the sitting FBI director without good cause. And no congressional investigation of the firing.
In spite of what he knows he still retains his position, even though he publicly indicated he wanted to resign and spend more time with his family. Why did he decide to stay on? In the face of all the information he has collected, Clinton can not remove him without risking disaster. So Clinton had his own investigation done on the Judge.
We have a stalemate, with Freeh retaining power and attempting to outwait Clinton's term of office and Clinton is afraid to pull the trigger on Freeh. Time and circumstances continue to change, and Freeh has a lot of information on the Republicans also. A LOT. He has worked himself into a position of power, and whoever gives the good Judge what he wants gets limited access to the information.
So, what does Judge Louis Freeh want? <g>

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So what did Judge Louis Freeh want?

A lucrative book deal. :-)

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