Posted on 10/06/2005 3:50:12 PM PDT by Quaker
(CBS) Elevated to the post of FBI director by President Clinton in 1993, Louis Freeh now speaks publicly about his terrible relationship with the president.
“We were preoccupied in eight years with multiple investigations,” Freeh tells 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace this Sunday, Oct. 6, at 7 PM ET/PT.
In his upcoming book, My FBI, Freeh 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 scandals Freeh mentions include Whitewater, Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers.
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.”
Freeh says the most delicate and unsavory of the investigations was the Lewinsky affair, when the FBI needed to obtain a blood sample from the president to match the DNA on the infamous blue dress.
“But we did it … very carefully, very confidentially,” Freeh says. During a scheduled dinner, the president 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.
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Right on. Freeh was a sham. Did he indict a single corrupt Clinton crony? I can't think of any. John Huang, Charlie Trie, the Riadys, Cisneros, Cuomo at HUD,? any?
Mr. Freeh, did you believe Juanita?
Diane of "Cheers" would call him "pond scum" and that would be elevating his position in the world on inebriates.
Personally, I prefer E Coli as descriptive although, I guess you could find him in a stool!
Yeah and which skeleton did you protect against the American people you slimeball?
That's a gut check moment. If you've got integrity, you resign, and tell the American people why. Obviously, Freeh failed the test.
Freeh probably can't stand to see the Clintons back in the WH...thus the revelations.
Bosnia, Somalia, Bin Laden Custody Rejection . . .
"The scandals Freeh mentions include Whitewater, Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers."
Can you imagine all the ones we never heard about?
"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.”
that was smart of freeh: cover all your bases, cover your @s$ when working with groups such as the clinton ilk. otherwise you wind up on the blamed/framed end of the next scandal.
That is not only disrespectful and degrading, it is just plain not true.
Stool samples are an important part of diagnostic medicine and enable doctors to identify certain conditions in their patients at a point where they can still be managed.
If we must compare Clinton to excrement ... how about ... dog poop on the bottom of your fave shoes that you just can't seem to get rid of completely. :)
Mr. Freeh: why don't you open the door of that closet a bit wider and let the country see something it hasn't already heard about? I'm sure there is much you can show us.
Absolutely, and how about doing the country a favor by providing some REAL insight on how all those FBI files really ended up in Hillary's closet, and what you think she's using them for?
That would be a great start!
He rips Clinton.
"Aside from scandals and investigations, Freeh says Clinton let down the American people and the families of victims of the 1996 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.”
The former president declined to respond to this charge.
Freeh also 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 says. “I was going to stay there and make sure he couldn’t replace me.”"
wanna save a ton of money on the movies???
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In this article, Freeh said he stayed on through the Clinton admin because he was afraid of who Clinton might appoint to replace him.
Give the man some credit.
From the article...
"Freeh also 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 says. “I was going to stay there and make sure he couldn’t replace me.”
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