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Klein: No 9-11 If Only Clinton “Had Been Free to Fire Freeh”?
2004-06-22
EFL from MRC
9-11 Ken Starr’s fault? On NBC’s Meet the Press, after endorsing Bill Clinton’s disgust for Ken Starr (“He makes a very strong case for Starr’s abuse of power”) and agreeing with Clinton’s view of himself more as victim than perpetrator (“My feeling is, that in the end on all this stuff he’s more sinned against than sinner”), Time magazine’s Joe Klein gave credibility to Clinton’s claim that but for the Lewinsky scandal Clinton would have fired FBI Director Louis Freeh, who had proven incompetent in the battle against terrorism. Klein suggested “we might have had a better shot at rolling up those al-Qaeda cells if Bill Clinton had been free to fire Freeh.”
Posted by:Super Hose

#12  Al Ignorami's writing style indicates English is a second language, or he's a juvie.
Posted by: intel analyst   2004-06-22 10:19:01 PM  

#11  He failed to do anything -- ANYTHING AT ALL -- about the 1993 WTC attack.

Hint for the dumbass troll with the long name: That's the FIRST attack on the WTC that DIDN'T bring the towers down. Didja get that? Now write all this down, as there will be a test on it this Friday.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-06-22 9:26:18 PM  

#10  This is the strangest statement I've heard in a while.

"...IF Bill Clinton had been free to fire Freeh."

He says that like Freeh had some dirt on Clinton that gave him job security.

I wonder what the hell it was.
Posted by: Phil Fraering   2004-06-22 8:15:02 PM  

#9  Oh yeah let's blame 911 on Clinton.

Most of the hijackers came into the country during his administration. His State Department instituted the "Visa Express" program. He failed to do anything -- ANYTHING AT ALL -- about the 1993 WTC attack.

Why don't you go away and learn somethings, idiot? Your inability to comprehend what's been going on is stunning. I bet you're one of the jihadis chased off of the jihadwatch site, here just to spew your hatred and try to start fights.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2004-06-22 2:45:54 PM  

#8  Ha HA !! This is pathetic. Oh yeah let's blame 911 on Clinton. You guys are desperate. You'll have plenty of time to look back and reminisce after the elections.
Posted by: Ali Abdel Hafiz ben americani al ignorami aziz el alb mahmoud mustafa ben shoo bee doo   2004-06-22 2:41:46 PM  

#7  It was legislated awhile back, and made more stringent by one Jamie Gorelick who worked under Reno. She wanted to go beyond what the statute called for.
Posted by: eLarson   2004-06-22 2:35:47 PM  

#6  When was it legislated that the CIA could not "talk" to the FBI?
Did Freeh have anything to do with that?
What we do know is that Clinton didn't want his left hand knowing what his right hand was up to:-))
Posted by: Cynic   2004-06-22 10:01:17 AM  

#5  Never mind that it was the State Department's "Visa Express" that made it easy on them to get in.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2004-06-22 7:14:48 AM  

#4  Joe Klein = Useful Clinton Idiot
Posted by: Capt America   2004-06-22 3:57:18 AM  

#3  So in other words - if he hadn't been a priapic goon humping the help, he might have been able to DO HIS JOB by firing an incompetent FBI Director? Is that about right?

Pathetic.
Posted by: mojo   2004-06-22 3:18:35 AM  

#2  With Monica under the desk, Clinton was always in a Freeh Fire Zone.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-06-22 2:49:42 AM  

#1  I'm sure...he was thinking about Freeh when his 'knob' was 'slobbed'!!
Posted by: smn   2004-06-22 2:08:44 AM  

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