Posted on 10/09/2005 11:03:19 AM PDT by FairOpinion
IN THE summer of 1998, as the Monica Lewinsky scandal closed in around him, Bill Clinton was hosting an official White House dinner when he told his guests he needed to visit the bathroom.
Excusing himself, he left the table. But, unknown to his guests, he walked in humiliated fury not to the bathroom, but to the White House Map Room. Waiting for him were FBI doctors and a federal prosecutor, there to take his blood sample to see of it matched the DNA on Ms Lewinsky’s now infamous semen-stained dress.
This extraordinary episode, which remained secret until yesterday, is recounted in an explosive new book by Louis Freeh, the FBI Director during the 1990s.
Mr Freeh writes for the first time about his appalling relationship with the President who appointed him, and the endless stream of scandals that made Mr Clinton the constant target of FBI investigations.
“The problem was with Bill Clinton — the scandals and the rumoured scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended,” Mr Freeh writes in My FBI: Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Fighting the War on Terror.
“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. We were preoccupied in eight years with multiple investigations.” The scandals included the Whitewater inquiry and Mr Clinton’s affairs with Ms Lewinsky, Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers.
The need to obtain Mr Clinton’s blood sample was the most unsavoury element of the FBI’s investigation of the Lewinsky saga, Mr Freeh says.
The White House intern, whose affair with Mr Clinton led to impeachment proceedings, had kept a Gap dress stained with his “genetic material” as proof of their relationship. She later revealed its existence to Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel investigating the former President. The dinner party subterfuge was “like a bad movie”, Mr Freeh writes. “But we did it, very carefully, very confidentially.”
John Harris, a Washington Post reporter, provides more detail about the Map Room encounter in his biography of Mr Clinton, The Survivor.
“Clinton’s face was flushed with anger as he rolled up his sleeve while one of his Navy physicians drew the sample. A prosecutor and federal agent fixed their gaze on the vial the entire time, fearful that Clinton’s team might try a surreptitious switch.” Such was the mutual distrust between Mr Starr and Mr Clinton that the former President’s lawyer ordered a second blood sample in case Mr Starr resorted to dirty tricks, according to Mr Harris.
Mr Freeh also writes of a conversation between Mr Clinton and Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the Khobar Towers bombing that killed 19 US servicemen in Dhahran in 1996. He claims that Mr Clinton used the occasion to solicit a donation for his presidential library.
Mr Freeh says that Mr Clinton refused to insist that the Crown Prince allow the FBI to question suspects held in custody in Saudi Arabia. “Bill Clinton raised the subject only to tell the Crown Prince he understood the Saudis’ reluctance to co-operate and then he hit Abdullah up for a contribution to the Clinton Presidential Library.”
Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House Speaker and erstwhile Clinton nemesis, said on the Fox television network: “If Louis Freeh is prepared to swear on oath that he knows that President Clinton was asking foreign leaders for money . . . this has to be a criminal offence of the first order.”
Mr Freeh was appointed by Mr Clinton in 1993, but relations between the two became poisoned. Mr Freeh writes that to distance himself from the scandals, he refused a White House pass that would have allowed him access without signing in. “I wanted all my visits to be official,” he said.
They clashed repeatedly, including over an FBI inquiry into alleged Chinese efforts to funnel campaign donations to Democrats, an inquiry that Mr Freeh never told Mr Clinton about. Mr Clinton soon referred to the FBI chief as “F****** Freeh”, seeing him as an agent for the Republicans.
Mr Freeh resigned from the FBI in 2001, three months before the September 11 terrorist attacks. He was harshly criticised by the commission that investigated the atrocity.
Jay Carson, Mr Clinton’s spokesman, said: “This is clearly a total work of fiction, written by a man who’s desperate to clear his name. It’s unfortunate that he’d stoop to this level in his desperate attempt to rewrite history. Freeh’s claims about library fundraising are more untruths from a book that’s chock-full of them.”
Daniel Benjamin, a former Clinton aide, said that the former President “pushed the Crown Prince quite hard” over the Khobar Towers investigation, and won Saudi co-operation that led to indictments.
............add the Rich bribe, the release of Hassidics and Puerto Rican Terrorist to curry votes for Shillary. Is there anything he wouldn't give up for money or votes?
Just heard snippits of Freed and Mike Wallace. Mike Wallace's question were, not only dripping with a sarcastic tone, but had inserted in them all the negatives he could squeeze into the question. What a bag of horse manure Mike Wallace is.
Typical interview of someone who wants to disembowel a Clinton enemy.
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He must know the crap is going to come down at some point and he is jockeying for position to the outside. Here is the thing if WE at Free republic know most details of clintons crimes, is he saying he didnt? If he didnt then he is incompetent to the point of negligence.
LOL, how embarrassing. And I believe Louis Freeh is telling the truth - this sound so much like Clinton.
Wallace did Sandy Burglar's refuting in the interview.
A High Crime, perhaps.
One among many he should have been impeached and indicted for.
Louie's name is mud now. He will be trashed to death by the media. His cronies are out in full force already smearing him.
The 911 commission was a set up. They meant to make sure Clinton was protected. Reminds me of the Warren Commission which had it's conclusion before the first meeting laid out for it.
"His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out. "
"The question is, now did he have sex with those skeletons?"
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Well he's infamous for 'jumpin their bones'.
the number of people who had been killed by terrorism in the decade of the '90s was fewer than the number of people killed by bee stings or lightning
May he now die and RIP. :-/
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Clearly. That's why Clinton lost his law license and paid $800,000 to settle a case he had "won" and paid another $89,000 fine for lying to Judge Susan Weber Wright.
And then there's the list of Clinton cronies who were convicted of various crimes (Webb Hubbell, Jim Guy Foster, etc.), or fled the country ignominiously (Johnny Chung, Pauline Kanchanalak, etc.) to avoid prosecution.
Pure fabrications.
I forget the exact quote, but it goes something like "When buying and selling is controlled by legislation, the first things bought and sold will be legislators"
There was a good reason why the original founders wanted things as decentralized as possible. It is difficult and expensive to buy tens of thousands of local councilmen and state reps scattered all over the country. It is easy to buy a few dozen key congress-critters in Washington.
For $1 billion, you can put close to $2 million cash into the pockets of each Senator and Representative. The Saudis keep more than that in their petty cash box
Why should China have bothered to try to oppose the US militarily, when they could buy Clinton dirt cheap?
With the increasing degree of federal control and subsidy of local and state governments, once you have enough control in DC, you effectively own the USA
I fear for my country
It already seems like a lifetime..........why won't they just go away?
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After keeping up with the details of scandal after scandal during the clinton administration, I thought it was finally over when he was impeached. The failure of the Senate to convict (missing/copied FBI files blackmail?) and remove him from office was the final straw that convinced me that he was truly untouchable. Due to his selling of MIRV warhead technology to the Chinese Communist, along with his selling of advanced nuclear technology to the North Koreans, America has been made extremely vulnerable by clinton and his socialist cronies. I don't think we will ever be truly rid of him or her. Clinton's legacy will always haunt America, IMHO.
I think Bubba is still very much in charge of the dems.
I do not think the release of Freeh's book and all of the issues of corruption (not my words or beliefs) which the MSM has been spinning these last few months is coinidence.
Bubba is the master of manipulation.
America doesn't need powerful foreign enemies when it can, instead, elect a criminal as President who's up for sale.
Democrats across the country should hang their heads in shame for electing Clinton not once, but twice. Something -- lack of conscience or personal honor, evidently -- stands in their way.
When individuals act in this way we call them Clintons or psychopaths. In large groups we call them democrats.
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