In New Book, Ex-Director of the F.B.I. Fights Back

NY Times ^ | 10/10/05 | DAVID E. ROSENBAUM

[Valin]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 - Settling a score, Louis J. Freeh, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation under President Bill Clinton and in the first six months of the Bush presidency, asserts in a new book that Richard A. Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, was "basically a second-tier player" who had little access to power and was in no position to issue credible warnings in advance of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
"If he was rushing around the executive branch trying to make a case that we were in imminent danger of a terrorist attack on our shores, he wasn't trying to make that case with me," Mr. Freeh writes of Mr. Clarke in a memoir to be published this week called "My F.B.I.: Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton and Fighting the War on Terror." The publisher is St. Martin's Press.

In his own book, "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror," published last year, Mr. Clarke describes himself as a herald of the dangers of terrorism and paints a scathing picture of Mr. Freeh and the F.B.I., criticizing the former director and his agency as ignoring the possibility of terrorism in this country.
Mr. Freeh says that incidents involving the two of them that Mr. Clarke describes in his book never occurred and that the Clarke book can be fairly described as "bad facts and no access."
Mr. Clarke was traveling over the weekend and did not respond to messages left on his office phone and his cellphone.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

Can't wait for the Clinton Spin machine try to trash Freeh. I hope Freeh provides the necessary fuel to finally turn clinton into a Pariah he should be.

[Enchante]

Mr. Freeh describes how he argued unsuccessfully for the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate Mr. Clinton's fund-raising practices during the 1996 campaign and says he could never communicate with the president because "with him, it always seemed to be personal."

Everything was 'personal' because Bill Clinton approaches political life as his own masturbatory fantasy. Everything about him shows that he's the most narcissitic egomaniac the country has ever seen, and among politicians that's saying quite a lot!

[Enchante]

whoops, typing too fast, that should have read 'narcissistic'

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting.

Hooray for Louis J. Freeh!

MORE insight into Richard A. Clarke.

[Enchante]

Mr. Freeh says that incidents involving the two of them that Mr. Clarke describes in his book never occurred and that the Clarke book can be fairly described as "bad facts and no access."

Suggests yet again that Clarke was/is a self-aggrandizing nitwit who invented and exaggerated when it suited his purposes. That's the guy that the MSM and Demagogues just loved in 2004, when they tried to use the Clarke and Wilson travesties to try to upend the presidential election and install John 'Vichy' Kerry, yet another egotistical narcissist. These Demagogues sure do have a lot in common!

[okie01]

...and [Freeh] says he could never communicate with the president because "with him, it always seemed to be personal."

In this case, there was a perfectly good reason for Clinton's behavior.

He was personally guilty.

[okie01]

...and [Freeh] says he could never communicate with the president because "with him, it always seemed to be personal."

In this case, there was a perfectly good reason for Clinton's defensiveness.

He was personally guilty.

[Jim_Curtis]

The NYT wants to promote Freeh as the official Clinton critic with this cheer leading headline. No doubt because they feel Freeh can keep the flames to a minimum.

[Zeppo]

Just raises more questions about why Freeh waited this long to do the slam dunk with Clarke... Later is better than never, but it would have been so much more effective had he given the swirly to Clarke when Clarke was riding high on the media-whore circuit...

Just as interesting is what the NY Times article leaves out (Saudi donation, drawing blood for the Monica stain DNA test, etc.)

[kennyboy509]

Spelling is not impotant. Thoughts are!

You have interesting thoughts.

Keep it up

Ken

[kennyboy509]

Important

duh!

[kcvl]

Louise Freeh:

Richard A. Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, was "basically a second-tier player" who had little access to power and was in no position to issue credible warnings in advance of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. "If he was rushing around the executive branch trying to make a case that we were in imminent danger of a terrorist attack on our shores, he wasn't trying to make that case with me,"

[vox humana]

Spelling is not impotant. Thoughts are!

You must be a public school graduate. LOL

[Mo1]

Richard A. Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, was "basically a second-tier player" who had little access to power

LOL ... I have got to get this book

[pookie18]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1498354/posts

[geezerwheezer]

The old gas-bag, Richard Clark has been found to be wanting. He has become a national disgrace, and a proven liar to boot! To hell with him and his sort, and I think that is what all of us should be saying, and getting loud about it. Someone like that a**clown can get all of us killed with his b.s., and we best realize it and do something about it!!

[R.W.Ratikal]

Louis Freeh, former Director of the FBI, charges that the former impeached president, Bill Clinton, asked Saudi Arabia for money for his personal use (the Clinton library) in return for foreign policy considerations in Saudi's favor.

Freeh would not dare make such a charge if he did not have proof to back it up. If it is indeed true this would be the greatest scandal to come out of the most corrupt and scandal-ridden presidency in American history.

And while such an act can not be classed as traitorous, such as when Jane Fonda went to Vietnam during the Vietnam war and made propaganda for the communists, it is certainly a betrayal of his oath to protect and preserve the Constitution.

Throughout his career Mr. Clinton has shown a cavalier disregard for the law but this time he might be in deep trouble. Mr. Freeh, watch your back.

[jmaroneps37]

The way 60 mins presented it last night was amazing! They let Freeh run wild on clinochhio and even brought out sandy burglar a convicted liar and thief to defend clinochhio. When the segment was over I actually believed that they would do a second segment trashing Freeh. It never came.WOW!!!! Because Freeh is so well respected among the general public this book has the best chance of sticking. It probably won't but it does have a great chance to stick because it alleges the kind of sleazy conduct that people already believe went on in that administration. There is no big jump here. Nobody is saying anybody is a murderer, just a scumbag and that people can believe about clinton.