posted on October 6, 2005 05:21:55 PM new
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.
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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.
posted on October 6, 2005 07:38:52 PM new
::“When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president,” ::
Then he is a complete idiot. It's one thing to choose not to use the pass, it's another to return it. If he truly did not think that it would be taken as a slap in the face, then he does not have the common sense to be the leader of an intelligence agency. Personally I think he knew EXACTLY what the response would be to his actions and the fact that he denies it and tries to play the part of Wide Eyed Innocence says much about the mindset of the writer of the book.
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posted on October 7, 2005 09:20:27 AM new
If he testifies before a grand jury about the "closets full of skeletons", I might take what he says in his book more seriously. Otherwise it is sensationalism to boost sales.
posted on October 7, 2005 12:33:00 PM new
Glad to hear another is speaking out about what went on 'behind the scenes' in the clinton WH.
Of course, the liberals don't care.....as long as their 'guy' is in control....his character...moral or otherwise...doesn't matter to them.
I'm not sure if it was Freed or not who publically stated that clinton hadn't even met with him for the first two years clinton was in office....almost like he wasn't the least bit interested in National security.
Sooooooo glad we aren't going through all that garbage anymore.....and hope we never will under another clinton administration. One eight year period of scandal and corruption was one too many, imo.
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"Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy. This is their essence." --Ann Coulter
And why the American Voters chose to RE-elect President Bush to four more years. YES!!!
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posted on October 7, 2005 12:40:33 PM newOf course, the liberals don't care.....as long as their 'guy' is in control....his character...moral or otherwise...doesn't matter to them.
The same can be said of you and other Neo-Cons, Linda. Seems you just don't care what Bush & Co. do--illegal, stupid, deceitful, whatever, it just doesn't matter to you as long as "your guy" is in control.
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"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." -- George W. Bush
posted on October 7, 2005 12:45:01 PM new
Not at all bunni - I see this President as having character that is FAR superior to that of clinton's. We'll never agree on that subject....no way...no how...
"Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy. This is their essence." --Ann Coulter
And why the American Voters chose to RE-elect President Bush to four more years. YES!!!
posted on October 8, 2005 02:35:18 AM new
Roadsmith, we did just discuss Nixon not too long ago. When whatzhisname's book came out. Remember? There were at least three threads going on it. But that was fueled mostly by fenix's fascination with him and all that watergate stuff.
posted on October 8, 2005 05:45:27 AM new
Ha Ha haha! Oh boy....
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posted on October 7, 2005 12:33:00 PM
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Glad to hear another is speaking out about what went on 'behind the scenes' in the clinton WH.
Of course, the liberals don't care.....as long as their 'guy' is in control....his character...moral or otherwise...doesn't matter to them. """
Of course, the NEOCONS don't care.....as long as their 'guy' is in control....his character...moral or otherwise...doesn't matter to them.
Let's see "behind the scenes" at the CURRENT White House....money laundering, campaign money scandal, approval not only of abortion but FORCED abortion, an act of treason in outing a CIA agent and the lying to cover it up, indictments by the day, NO accountability for the money pouring out of the U.S. into Iraq, thousands DEAD and MAIMED in a war based on White House LIES, approval of torture (and letting unlerlings take the fall when they follow orders from the TOP), complete FEMA failure due to rampant cronyism, sky rocketing gas and fuel prices, and plummeting approval ratings!!
Gee, maybe people are finally waking up!
posted on October 8, 2005 09:12:22 AM new
Fugger: I didn't recall threads about Nixon lately, but I was out of commission for about a month and probably missed it.
It just seems to me that some of us human beings spend a lot of time with old stuff, water under the bridge stuff. Witness the veterans who STILL hate Jane Fonda after 35 years and seem to dwell on the attitudes of her youth. Last time I was at the Vietnam monument in D.C., those fellows had tables set out on the mall, selling Fonda-type bumper stickers and tee-shirts. Seems excessive. It's not like she's running for president, or such.
posted on October 8, 2005 09:25:01 AM new
All the NEOCONS on this board live in the past posting about Clinton.
The MAJORITY of Americans are now struggling in 2005. The MAJORITY can start undoing the damage CON-servative law makers have done serving the rich and industry like oil companies in the 2006 elections.
posted on October 8, 2005 05:28:41 PM new
Funny! I didn't get an answer from LindaKKK after she again made a fool of herself . Hard to believe that someone who speaks out of BOTH sides of her mouth hasn't got anything to say
posted on October 8, 2005 06:20:32 PM newThe MAJORITY
Like your majority? The majority of you losers that voted for kerry? Guess that still makes you a minority....... I gave my liberal neighbors son a book for his birthday. He went crazy trying to find where to put the batteries.
