in 2001 the New Yorker ran a story about the meeting between Klinton and the Saudis...they reported exactly the same thing that Freeh claimed in 2005. Looks like this story will get legs.
Saudi $ for Clinton
By Robert Novak
Mar 30, 2002
Syndicated columnist
WASHINGTON -- 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. A Clinton library spokesman told this column he had heard nothing about this contribution and would not tell us if he had. But Saudi sources say the pledge was made by the royal family, following a similar gift to the elder George Bush's presidential library. The Bush library lists a contribution by the family of Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi ambassador to Washington, among "gifts of $1 million and above."
A footnote: Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz, chairman of the Arab Gulf Fund for the United Nations, attacked Clinton's visit to Saudi Arabia because of the former president's pro-Israeli views.