From this thread http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39b9d1801b14.htm in 2000:
Judge Freeh stayed on for a couple of reasons. He loves this country. And he couldn't personally except the responsibility of allowing Clinton to appoint a new Director. The good Judge has seen most of it, and is sitting on a powder keg that if it falls into the wrong hands could guarantee Democrat (and Communist Chinese) control of the WH for about as long as they want it. This is a poker game with unbelievably high stakes and no one knows which way it's going to go until the last hand is dealt, the bluffing through, and the cards on the table.
In spite of what he knows he still retains his position, even though he publicly indicated he wanted to resign and spend more time with his family. Why did he decide to stay on? In the face of all the information he has collected, Clinton can not remove him without risking disaster. So Clinton had his own investigation done on the Judge. We have a stalemate, with Freeh retaining power and attempting to outwait Clinton's term of office and Clinton is afraid to pull the trigger on Freeh. Time and circumstances continue to change, and Freeh has a lot of information on the Republicans also. A LOT. He has worked himself into a position of power, and whoever gives the good Judge what he wants gets limited access to the information.
Very interesting.
Here's more of what Trannie said from that old thread.
(In the excerpt below, the blue is me asking him/her to elaborate on Freeh. The bold emphasis has been added.)
================================The good Judge [Freeh] has seen most of it, and is sitting on a powder keg that if it falls into the wrong hands could guarantee Democrat (and Communist Chinese) control of the WH for about as long as they want it.
This doesn't make sense. How could Freeh's information ensure Democrat control of the WH? If Clinton/Gore are so corrupt and Freeh is sitting on a powder keg, how would it help the Democrats if it became known? Because it goes back to Bush the Elder?
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Hoover was able to insure his tenure as FBI director for life with the files he collected. Even though there were some rather interesting things in his own personal life. He still retained power. People that had a hook into him were able to use him, and they did. He was infamous for claiming that there wasn't any mafia, for example.
To the good judge. Hoover was able to accumulate a truly massive amount of information, all before there were such things as the internet and computers. His total agent staff was smaller than today, also.
So, what sort of information do you think that Judge Freeh has collected? From all his agents that worked on Foster (they did, behind the scenes), Ron Brown (before and after his hitting the mountain), the Riadys, Cosco, Richardson, Reno (that one alone would make for some very interesting reading), Gore, Buddhist temples, various and sundry dry hole investigations by the Justice Department (the decision to prosecute or appoint independent counsels or not was made by Reno, but the investigations were all done by the FBI), Maria Hisa, Wen Ho Lee, Los Alamos, Waco, et al, etc. The list would take up quite a bit of time just to type it all.
So, is it possible that Judge Freeh has raw data copies of all the various investigations including all the individual agent reports? What interesting things do you think he knows? When was he appointed (and under what circumstances? - His predecessor was summarily fired and removed from his office by marshals the day before Foster died and Louis Freeh was appointed to the position that day). All that even though the President can not fire the sitting FBI director without good cause. And no congressional investigation of the firing.
In spite of what he knows he still retains his position, even though he publicly indicated he wanted to resign and spend more time with his family. Why did he decide to stay on? In the face of all the information he has collected, Clinton can not remove him without risking disaster. So Clinton had his own investigation done on the Judge.
We have a stalemate, with Freeh retaining power and attempting to outwait Clinton's term of office and Clinton is afraid to pull the trigger on Freeh. Time and circumstances continue to change, and Freeh has a lot of information on the Republicans also. A LOT. He has worked himself into a position of power, and whoever gives the good Judge what he wants gets limited access to the information.
So, what does Judge Louis Freeh want? <g>
So what did Judge Louis Freeh want?
A lucrative book deal. :-)