Posted on 10/08/2005 5:22:54 PM PDT by Zeppo
Under strong pressure from former President Bill Clinton's advisers, CBS's ''60 Minutes'' has agreed to read a statement denying an explosive charge being made on Sunday nght's program by former FBI director Louis Freeh, the WASHINGTON POST reports.
In the statement, Samuel ``Sandy'' Berger, Clinton's national security adviser, challenges Freeh's assertion that Clinton failed to press Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to cooperate with an investigation of the 1996 bombing of Khobar Towers in that country, and used the occasion to ask for a contribution to his presidential library. The Saudis made such a donation last year _ six years after the 1998 meeting.
Berger, who was at the meeting, said: ``The president strongly raised the need for Saudi officials to cooperate with us on the investigation into the attack on Khobar Towers at the time when the FBI was attempting to gain access to the suspects. The president did not raise in any fashion the issue of his library.''
Clinton spokesman Jay Carson said he told CBS's Mike Wallace that he had supportive accounts from five other former officials at the meeting, including those briefed about a private conversation between Clinton and Abdullah.
``The fair journalistic question is why they didn't call and get comments for their story from people who were in the room, such as Sandy Berger, and why they took until Friday afternoon to get that done,'' said Lanny Davis, a former White House lawyer, who tried to persuade ''60 Minutes'' producer Jeff Fager to allow him or another Clinton spokesman to appear on Sunday night's segment.
Carson, who called the Freeh book ``a total work of fiction.''
Developing...
yes, but was the agreement to obtain that money obtained where Freeh said it was - at a meeting that was supposed to be about anti terror efforts.
Clinton is just like Jesse Jackson....a shakedown artist.
And here is a link to the FR thread about that article.
Also, here is a link to the FR thread about the CBSnews.com story about the upcoming 60 Minutes piece
Why didn't Freeh testify at the 9/11 Commission? Or did he?
Sounds like they want other monies so to be able to fudge the numbers and mix them up. No reason that's can't do the right thing before this. Stupid argument by Jay Carson.
Maybe it won't be too long before you get your wish...Slick Willy is looking rather peaked and under the weather these days. It's got to be something more than his heart.
60 Minutes should have held out for Victoria Gotti just for the ratings.
Or, the CONVICTED LIAR, Bill Klinton
Classic CBS whimp-out. Done at the insistence of Dan Rather, no doubt.
"Carson, who called the Freeh book ``a total work of fiction.''"
Savor the irony of a spokesman for Clinton calling somebody else a liar. I'm sure every fact in Freeh's book is a lie, including the date of publication };-)
"Should be good, especially, if he allows callers to ask questions."
I hope the callers ask something other than, "Why didn't you say this when you were in office?"
He had a stronger sense of self-preservation at the time.
Will Sandy Burglar be reading this statement from a note he pulled out of his shorts?
"the Embattled Clintons,"
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My fantasy is to refer to them as the "imprisoned Clintons".
Why do dems not live by the same rules they push on others?
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Have you forgotten? They are superior to us Neanderthals.
...they all have Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Bingo!
What's sauce for the goose....
Rats turning on rats, I love it!
The reality is that "60 Minutes" had offered Bill Clinton the chance to be interviewed and present his own 1st-hand account (i.e., fictions), but the Clintonistas want to conduct their smear campaign through surrogates and know that they cannot allow "60 Minutes" anywhere near the Stainmaster on this matter. When Sandy Burglar and Lanny Davis are your best "character witnesses" you know you're in deep trouble.
The MSM should always refer to Sandy as "convicted felon Sandy Burlgar" but I'm sure they never will. ACtually, I think he might have pleaded to a misdemeanor???? It certainly SHOULD have been a multiple-felony indictment and conviction, and he should have been disbarred and jailed for many years. He is yet another Clintonista who has gotten away with far too much.
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