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.
Yes, they did.
Mar 30, 2002
Bill Clinton not only received a $750,000 speaking fee for going to Saudi Arabia in January but came back with a hefty pledge for his presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., according to high-ranking Saudis. Estimates range from less than $1 million to $20 million.
Further, I recall reading that at the opening of his liebrary there was a computer displaying a donor list that included Saudis. Once it was reported the list was removed.
Oh please. I have an excellent memory.
Clinton knew the FBI wasn't going to pull a fast one because he knew what the results would be and that they would show what they showed.
Duh
Thanks. I didn't doubt he was out selling the Country out for his own ends - Just wondered to whom, for how much and was it of record.
They should have tested the sink in the oval office. What a pig.
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Bill Klintoon is "a whitewashed tomb".
He is the reason the Communist Chinese are now able to target the west coast of America with nukes.
He is the reason the ChiComs now have MRV nuke capabilities.
He is the reason the North Koreans have the capability to build nukes.
He is the reason...
The "man" is a disaster, as a man, and a President.
He is a "whitewashed tomb".
He is beneath contempt.
No way Hilde-beast would have ever allowed the taping system that brought down Nixon to be used against the Clinton Cabal
Mummy's seem to turn him on,why not skeletons?
The mummy of a young girl who was ritually murdered.
....and I read that Jay Carson was just appointed to be Clinton's spokesman a few days ago! The article should refer to him as "the newly appointed Clinton spokesman" or even "the hurriedly appointed Clinton spinmeister" to give the accurate flavor of what's going on.... the Clintonistas must be in a frenzy of activity trying to prepare a new "war room" for attacks against Louis Freeh. Now we will see all sorts of tidbits in the MSM designed to paint Freeh in the most negative possible light. Various Clintonistas will recall encounters with Freeh which will be spun (or lied about) to make it seem like Freeh has some pathological vendetta going against the Stainmaster.
If CLINTON gets indicted he is covering his ass. If he is seen as complicit he is not going to get any work. I think he was hoping that hilary would be prez in 08 but thinks she wont so he is trying to swim upstream from the sewage he is in. Yes he has the motivation, and if you dont see that you are willfully blind.
One question: why did he not resign in protest for ANY of the scandals ?
There's more to that than what you may know. If you're in the habit of sharing your thoughts on the matter with those around you, I'd get in the habit of checkin' your six, once in awhile....just some FRiendly advice.
Yes, both Buzz Patterson and Gary Aldrich were way out in front on this, and as a result were totally vilified when they were not merely ignored by the MSM. It will be interesting to see whether Freeh can get past the same treatment to have any actual effect on public understanding. Freeh + Patterson + Aldrich ought to be a knockout series of blows on Clinton, but can anything really get through to the dense MSM that refuses to learn anything it doesn't want to know???
There you have it in a nutshell.
Did the plea bargain for the Burglar let him off with a misdemeanor, or was he charged with a felony?
Read somewhere the other day that he was arrested for speeding which violated the plea bargain and should send him off to gaol. But the story seems to have fallen off the end of the earth.
Ah well, Sandy's story was a simple one of certain papers disappearing into pants, socks, jock straps, and such articles of clothing. What the heck, don't all of us have important papers fall into our trousers? Shucks, nothin' that couldn't happen to any ol' country boy.
Strangely enough, it seems these secret and classified papers might have incriminated someone or something in a powerful position. Not your usual situation that could happen to any ol' country feller.
Gilbert and Sullivan noted a long time ago, "When a felon's not engaged in his employment or maturing his felonious little plan, his capacity for innocent enjoyment is just as great as any honest man's."
And someone who has a capacity for classified documents falling into his socks will show up on 60 minutes tonight for 'is h'innocent h'enjoyment by defending a powerful someone or something.
Hey George...call Abdul, it's about time to play the democrat game and get the truth out about the bent one.
One lousy call could turn it all around.
Should be easy to verify. According to Freeh, he asked Bush 41 to intercede and call CP Abdullah, which he did.
Want to bet Sixty Minutes will NOT mention this episode?
A truely honest man would have resigned or never took the position in the first place,IMO. Freeh had to know from the beginning the Clintons were dirty, who didn't?
I agree with you. To little to late Louie and I'll not buy the book. Instead I am rereading Barbara Olsen's "The Final Days"
Very interesting. That's a different plant than the aspirin plant I take it.
Saddam was up to his eyeballs in chemical and nuclear WMD. The Democrats can deny it all they want but I'll never doubt it.
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