Posted on 05/25/2003 12:32:06 AM PDT by kattracks
Hillary Clinton's media surrogate Sidney Blumenthal charged Saturday that former FBI Director Louis Freeh "has a lot of responsibility to bear" for leaving America vulnerable to the 9/11 attacks.
In an interview with WABC Radio's Monica Crowley, Blumenthal said he was "very close" to Mrs. Clinton during her tenure as first lady, adding, "I am still her friend."
Moments later he launched into an attack on Freeh, who penned an op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday excoriating the Clinton administration for dragging its feet on the Khobar Towers bombing investigation.
"That story by Louie Freeh is completely false," a suddenly emotional Blumenthal charged. "Louie Freeh was operating under a self delusion and his story is completely false about that."
Blumenthal alleged that instead of making terrorism his top priority, Freeh did not use all the resources that were available to him. "He used it instead for internal cyber security in the FBI," Mrs. Clinton's surrogate said.
In the next breath Blumenthal blamed Director Freeh for leaving America vulnerable to the 9/11 attacks.
"[Freeh] was consumed with fantasies that were all false about terrorism," the Clinton insider told Crowley. "And he led himself into an alley and never reformed the FBI, which was dysfunctional and played a role, as we know, in not reporting material that could have led to preventing 9/11. I think Louis Freeh has a lot of responsibility to bear."
Blumenthal also insisted that ex-President Clinton had not committed a crime when he lied under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
"Lying under oath when you're talking about the nation's chief law enforcement officer - don't you think that's a crime?" Crowley asked.
"No," Blumenthal shot back. "He was never convicted of that. He was misleading but he was not convicted. It was a minor matter that happened in something involving sex."
Earlier in the week, Blumenthal offered a similar defense to rebut charges that Mrs. Clinton's chief of staff had accepted $50,000 from campaign finance scandal whistleblower Johnny Chung inside her White House office.
"It was a mistake for [Maggie Williams] to take that money," Blumenthal told WLIE Radio's Mike Siegel. "But you know what, there was no crime committed and no administration official was ever convicted or indicted for any crime involving campaign finance."
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Exactly!
Is it any surprise the little mouse turned out to be a wife-beater?
RUSH offered an interesting insight last week by speculating that Hitlary will not run in 2004 because it is unlikely that she could beat Bush. He stated that if a democrat did win against Bush, then Hillary wouldn't stand a chance in 2008 of defeating a second-term democrat. Therefore, according to RUSH, the Clintons will, in their under-handed, behind-the-scenes way, sabotage any Dem candidate for 2004.
Hlllary would then have a better chance of defeating an "unknown" republican candidate in 2008.
Sounds plausible for the slimes.
Every time I hear one of these scumbags talk like this it reminds me of a line from the TV detective show: "You can't prove anything, Lieutenant Columbo."
Worth repeating.
Understimating their evil must not be done.
Mr. Freeh, above all, should know not to do that. I think he does know it. Whether or not he has sufficient courage is the issue. God give him the strength to tell the truth.
In fact, Mr. Freeh knows enough to know that at this moment, we can be certain, the Clinton / Terrorist connections are running and the planning is underway to torpedo both the economy (dramatically) no matter how many Americans will be killed or ruined - as long as it means Hitlery's rise to power in 2004.
Freeh of all of the insiders KNOWS that Hitlery is NOT going to wait on the sidelines until 2008. Anyone who thinks that is an blind idiot.
One can only hope that the courage we have seen displayed in many arenas since September 11th, 2001 will rub off on Mr. Freeh and/or some other insiders in Hitlery hell who will come forward at just the right time to just the right people to let America and the world know what danger we are in if any Democrat - but most especially Hillary Clinton - EVER takes total power again.
A timely bttt......Mr. Freeh testifies tomorrow before the 911 Omission.
Freeh has so much dirt on Clinton, I'm surprised he's still among the living.
Yet another lie.
Which is exactly why they are all trying so desperately to blame the Bush administration for this. The voters must never know the truth about who dropped the ball allowing 911.
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