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FORMER FBI HEAD: CLINTON WAS PROBLEM; 'CLOSETS WERE FULL OF SKELETONS'
The Drudge report ^ | Oct. 6, 2004 | Drudge

Posted on 10/06/2005 11:01:02 AM PDT by blogblogginaway

Edited on 10/07/2005 5:24:28 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Red Siren breaking on Drudge. Not linked yet

Update:


FBI FREEH UNLOADS ON CLINTON: 'CLOSETS WERE FULL OF SKELETONS'
Thu Oct 06 2005 14:07:50 ET

Louis Freeh Speaks for the First Time About his Terrible Relationship with the President

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh says publicly for the first time that his relationship with President Bill Clinton – the man who appointed him – was a terrible one because Clinton’s scandals made him a constant target of FBI investigations. Freeh discloses this and many other details of his dealings with the Clinton White House in a new bombshell book: 'My FBI : Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Fighting the War on Terror' -- set for release next week.

Freeh has taped an interview with Mike Wallace and CBSNEWS '60 MINUTES' to be broadcast Sunday, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

MORE

In the book, “My FBI,” he writes, “The problem was with Bill Clinton -- the scandals and the rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. 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.”

The director sought to distance himself from Clinton because of Whitewater, refusing a White House pass that would have enabled him to enter the building without signing in. This irked Clinton. “I wanted all my visits to be official,” says Freeh. “When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president,” he tells Wallace.

Returning the pass was only the start of the rift. Later, relations got so bad that President Clinton reportedly began referring to Freeh as “that F…ing Freeh.” Says Freeh, “I don’t know how they referred to me and I really didn’t care,” he says. “My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations. He, unfortunately for the country and unfortunately for him, happened to be the subject of that investigation,” Freeh says.

In another revelation, Freeh says the former president let down the American people and the families of victims of the Khobar Towers terror attack in Saudi Arabia. After promising to bring to justice those responsible for the bombing that killed 19 and injured hundreds, Freeh says Clinton refused to personally ask Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to allow the FBI to question bombing suspects the kingdom had in custody – the only way the bureau could secure the interviews, according to Freeh. Freeh writes in the book, “Bill Clinton raised the subject only to tell the crown prince that he understood the Saudis’ reluctance to cooperate and then he hit Abdullah up for a contribution to the Clinton Presidential Library.” Says Freeh, “That’s a fact that I am reporting.”

The most unsavory of those investigations was the one concerning Clinton and Lewinsky. The White House intern had kept a semen-stained dress as proof of her relationship and a Clinton blood sample was needed to match the DNA on the dress. “Well, it was like a bad movie and it was ridiculous that…Ken Starr and myself, the director of the FBI, find ourselves in that ridiculous position,” he tells Wallace. “But we did it…very carefully, very confidentially,” recalls Freeh. As he explains the plan in the book, Clinton was at a scheduled dinner and excused himself to go to the bathroom. Instead of the restroom, he entered another room where FBI medical technicians were waiting to take a blood sample.

Freeh says he was determined to stay on as FBI director until President Clinton left office so that Clinton could not appoint his successor. “I was concerned about who he would put in there as FBI director because he had expressed antipathy for the FBI, for the director,” he tells Wallace. “[So] I was going to stay there and make sure he couldn’t replace me,” Freeh tells Wallace.



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To: UCANSEE2

This one's been been kept pretty tightly wrapped hasn't it?

Anyone else know this book was on it's way?

Sending prayers for Louis..he's going to need em given the Clinton's infamous need to pay back.


241 posted on 10/06/2005 1:12:49 PM PDT by SE Mom (Keep an open mind; nothing will fall out.)
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To: Calpernia

Those who lust for power have found out they can control the internet through the 'hardware'.

Saves them the trouble of trying to get new laws passed.

Kinda like the foreign hackers overloading a hub to get DNOS (denial of service). They disabled communications between the White House and the CCC (command and control center for the armed forces).

Of course, that won't happen again. But the idea is the same.


242 posted on 10/06/2005 1:13:42 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (I jez calls it az I see it.)
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To: Americanwolf

I can't claim credit..the Bushius family has been at fault for many millenia now. They also caused both the Big Bang and the killing of the dinosaurs. I believe Georgio Walkerosaurus RexBush told them to stay the hell out of early Texas.

:)


243 posted on 10/06/2005 1:14:54 PM PDT by goresalooza (Nurses Rock!)
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To: Mean Maryjean
What a buffoon!

No joke. Can't believe he ever got into office, let alone the Presidency.

244 posted on 10/06/2005 1:16:17 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Americanwolf; goresalooza; Americanwolfsbrother
after further review and lobbying from the judge from Pennsylvania...

The score has been adjusted.... 9 out of 10.

Well done..definitely more accurate. I man come on, Georgius Prescottius Busheeus XXXVII! That is awesome!

Long live King Georgius!! =)

245 posted on 10/06/2005 1:17:32 PM PDT by mozrock (They're not people, they're hippies!)
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To: DogBarkTree
Later, relations got so bad that President Clinton reportedly began referring to Freeh as “that F…ing Freeh.” Says Freeh,

My estimation of Freeh just went up several notches.

246 posted on 10/06/2005 1:18:13 PM PDT by aBootes
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To: VRWCTexan

All day the 5th, I wasn't able to get on Drudge's web site either. I tried everything.. a link in an email someone sent me, my own bookmark, and Googling it, and nothing worked. However, this afternoon I tried it with my bookmark and it opened for me. I'm on Road Runner too, but it's through Bright House Communications, not Time Warner.


247 posted on 10/06/2005 1:19:12 PM PDT by SanS (Road Runner in Tampa Bay)
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To: .cnI redruM
So Louie, why'd ya' let his wife have all those files then?

He didn't.

Hill sent one of her 'generals' to get a few files, on the pretext of needing it for potiential replacements for Billy Dale.

She had him keep this up , accumulating the huge amount of files reported, until someone noticed she had requested more than seemed necessary.

Her and the President had a provision for asking for FBI files for security checks on new WHITE HOUSES hires.

So, it was stopped when it was noticed she was abusing it.

248 posted on 10/06/2005 1:20:10 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (I jez calls it az I see it.)
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To: kcvl
I hate Bill Clinton but Louis Freeh has very little credibility in my opinion. I know the DNC was crooked but why the hell would the FBI be concerned with campaign finance issues...it would be like the FBI investigating Tom Delay today. Hopefully the FBI has bigger fish to fry than the DNC.

Louis Freeh spent to much damn time playing politics rather than doing his job and I put down as one of Clinton's many mistakes appointing the guy the head of the FBI:

Lest we forget: from 2001

"Freeh, 51, who began his career in 1975 as an FBI agent, leaves the bureau in the wake of the worst case of espionage in the bureau's history -- though his resignation did not appear to be linked to the scandal. Senior FBI counterintelligence agent Robert P. Hanssen allegedly spied for Russia over the past 15 years, compromising countless national security secrets and helping Moscow find two moles who were executed. Hanssen was arrested in February after allegedly dropping off secret documents for Russian agents in return for $50,000 in cash.

Under pressure to tighten security, Freeh agreed to polygraph 500 people with access to intelligence information, a tactic he had long resisted.

The Hanssen case shook the FBI, but in an interview last week, Ashcroft expressed strong confidence in the bureau's director and praised his handling of the case. "When we needed to take steps toward apprehension, we were still in a system that was secure and could operate effectively," Ashcroft said.

There have been other crises on Freeh's watch, including allegations -- later proved unfounded -- of a cover-up in connection with the FBI assault on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Tex., in which 75 people died. There were massive problems with the FBI crime lab and the mishandling of the Atlanta Olympic bombing case.

The FBI was condemned for its handling of the investigation into whether former Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory scientist Wen Ho Lee mishandled nuclear secrets. Lee, indicted on 59 felony counts, ultimately pleaded guilty to a single count in a plea bargain.

Freeh, who proved to be an adroit political operative, withstood the attacks that followed each episode, maintaining strong ties to the key lawmakers who oversee his agency."

Freeh was a big a joke as Clinton
249 posted on 10/06/2005 1:23:53 PM PDT by richconklin (A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. - Mark Twain)
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To: SAMS

Thanks for the post - the never ending saga of Bill's efforts to bring down America.....


250 posted on 10/06/2005 1:24:33 PM PDT by VRWCTexan (History has a long memory - but still repeats itself)
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To: blogblogginaway
If his closets are full, just imagine how many skeletons they will find if they dig up the Clinton's back yard, and jack hammer the cement out of his basement...

Hear that? The cone of silence was just lowered in all MSM offices. This will be ignored and swept aside like everything else by MSM, it is after all, only a book. Only books by Democrat traitors count.

251 posted on 10/06/2005 1:27:00 PM PDT by Forte Runningrock
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To: maxter
Speaking of the Clinton Presidential Library, I wonder if admission sales are making a dent in the Katrina relief fund.

"Clinton Presidential Library" - isn't that a double-wide with a magazine rack of girlie magazines in Podunk, Ark? They have the audacity to charge admission?!?

252 posted on 10/06/2005 1:27:47 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty
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To: blogblogginaway
'DEM BONES

I knew it, sister, brother
Indeed I knew it, freepers, HEY
'Dem bones gonna rise again
'Dem bones gonna rise again

Ole Bill he thought he hid his sins
'Dem bones gonna rise again
But the closet's open and the skeleton wins
Dem bones gonna rise again

Da Lord took a bone from Lucifer's side
To make Miss Hill for Bubba's bride
But Bub didn't know quite what to do
When she ate the apple and became a shrew

Peaches, pears, plums and such
'Dem bones gonna rise again
But what came next he oughta not touch
'Dem bones gonna rise again

'Cause one fine day Miss Mon-ique came 'round
'Dem bones gonna rise again
He spied that thong all tumblin' down
His bone gonna rise again

See all 'dem bones behind that door
'Dem bones gonna rise again
The skeleton says there's plenty more
'DEM BONES GONNA RISE AGAIN

Oh, hear the word of Da Lord!

Leni

253 posted on 10/06/2005 1:28:18 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Re: The Anti-War Sheehan-ites - They want to live in the garden but not tend the garden)
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To: SanS
Unfortunately I'm on RR thru Time Warner - they replied to my e-mail complaint with a rather mealymouthed excuse that it was just technical issues - but they refused to provide a time-frame as to when those issues would be resolved....
254 posted on 10/06/2005 1:28:59 PM PDT by VRWCTexan (History has a long memory - but still repeats itself)
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To: blogblogginaway
Hey Billy Clinton... you will not be able to re-write this history.

You can rub some Windex on it, but you know it will not make it feel better.

255 posted on 10/06/2005 1:31:13 PM PDT by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: Czar
"Here they come! James Carville in the lead, followed by Lanny Davis, Rahm Emanuel and Erskine Bowles...with the MSM bringing up the rear. Yes, I think I see Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw, and Rather is carrying a large effigy of Peter Jennings. And here comes Walter Cronkite, pushing along an immense spin machine..."

Perfect visual! LOL and so true.

was thinking of all these Clinton cronies. . .including Stephanoplis. . .and how they are going to have to cover their own behinds; as they have covered Billy's.

The question is not 'how did they know'. . .but how will they defend their pretense of 'not knowing'. . .

Right. ..'the Spin Machine'!

256 posted on 10/06/2005 1:31:17 PM PDT by cricket (No Freedom - No Peace)
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To: blogblogginaway; hoosiermama; aculeus; dighton; Bahbah; seenenuf; flaglady47; doug from upland
"CLINTON'S CLOSETS WERE FULL OF SKELETONS"

'DEM BONES

I knew it, sister, brother
Indeed I knew it, freepers, HEY
'Dem bones gonna rise again
'Dem bones gonna rise again

Ole Bill he thought he hid his sins
'Dem bones gonna rise again
But the closet's open and the skeleton wins
'Dem bones gonna rise again

Da Lord took a bone from Lucifer's side
To make Miss Hill for Bubba's bride
But Bub didn't know quite what to do
When she ate the apple and became a shrew

Peaches, pears, plums and such
'Dem bones gonna rise again
But what came next he oughta not touch
'Dem bones gonna rise again

'Cause one fine day Miss Mon-ique came 'round
'Dem bones gonna rise again
He spied that thong all tumblin' down
His bone gonna rise again

See all 'dem bones behind that door
'Dem bones gonna rise again
The skeleton says there's plenty more
'DEM BONES GONNA RISE AGAIN

Oh, hear the word of Da Lord!

Leni

257 posted on 10/06/2005 1:32:46 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Re: The Anti-War Sheehan-ites - They want to live in the garden but not tend the garden)
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To: OldFriend
"Well, for those of us who read Gary Aldrich's book....Unlimited Access......we were quite aware of the horrow show that was the grifter administration."

It was a great book. . .really 'fly on the wall' telling; but his book tour/promotion was a nightmare; created by, of course. . .the Clinton's; with all the help the MSM could muster.

258 posted on 10/06/2005 1:34:33 PM PDT by cricket (No Freedom - No Peace)
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To: MinuteGal
Sorry for the double post.

Da Lord made me do it!

Leni

259 posted on 10/06/2005 1:35:05 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Re: The Anti-War Sheehan-ites - They want to live in the garden but not tend the garden)
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To: MinuteGal

Hehehe. Sounds just as good the second time around. Good 'n.


260 posted on 10/06/2005 1:36:16 PM PDT by Eastbound
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