Posted on 10/08/2005 10:29:52 PM PDT by Nalu
CLINTON AIDES BATTLE FREEH OVER '60 MINUTES,' BOOK Sat Oct 08 2005 20:04:07 ET
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.''
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For the first time in 41 years of piloting his own plane,
a propeller fell off Senator James Inhofe airplane. It
happened last Saturday.
Thanks for this post. I had no idea.
You are very welcome.
I hope you note that the date on that site is 1999.
I am trying to find the incident report, just to back it up.
He is an excellent pilot.
"First Hillary, Then Jennifer, Now Us!"
"Am I the only person who is surprised that 60 Minutes is doing this expose' by Freeh ..?? I mean, 60 Minutes never does anything that's anti-Clinton. This really seems weird to me."
NO! CBS ALWAYS has a hidden agenda.
Yeah, somebody else mentioned that CBS is trying to run interference for Hillary by allowing this to air and then she can say it's old news and refuse to discuss it.
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