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| Ex-FBI Chief On Clinton's Scandals - Including Lack of Terror Response |
| 2005-10-09 |
| When President Bill Clinton appointed Louis Freeh director of the FBI, he called Freeh âa law enforcement legend.â And Freeh spent a controversial eight years as director before he left in June, 2001. But the 9/11 plot was hatched on his watch and he has been criticized by the 9/11 commission for not having his agents more focused on counterterrorism. But it also turns out that no FBI director had a more strained relationship with the president who had appointed him, than did Louis Freeh with Clinton. As FBI Director, Freeh rarely sat down one-on-one with reporters. But now heâs written a book, My FBI, and speaks out for the first time about his years as director, and his toxic relationship with Bill Clinton. Hereâs how he wrote about the former president: âThe problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and 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.â Freeh says he was preoccupied for eight years with multiple investigations, including Whitewater, Jennifer Flowers and the Monica Lewinsky affair. He found it deeply awkward and frustrating to be constantly investigating his boss and says it became âtheater of the absurdâ when special prosecutor Ken Starr asked him to get a DNA sample from the president to compare with that notorious stain on Lewinskyâs dress. Freeh says the entire scenario of getting a blood sample from the president was like a bad movie. ...Freeh had another reason for wanting to outlast Clinton. It was the 1996 Khobar Towers terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia, where 19 U.S. servicemen died and more than 370 were wounded. President Clinton had sent the FBI to investigate and promised Americans that those responsible would pay. âThe cowards who committed this murderous act must not go unpunished. Let me say it again: we will pursue this. America takes care of our own. Those who did it must not go unpunished,â the president said. Clinton made the same promise after the Sept 1995 bombing in Ryhaid that including the killing of my older brother. Same result. But Freeh says the President failed to keep his promise. |
| Posted by:Captain America |
| #4 I loved the wallace comment "On a charge this serious, we had to let President Clinton respond." Funny, I don't remeber teh same treatment of Bush over the Guard memo story. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2005-10-09 22:55 |
| #3 This is going to be one of the best pissing contests in history. Interesting choice of words. Apparently they're sending Sandy Burglar around to whip out the rebuttals to Freeh. If I were running a news agency, the first question I'd ask Burglar would be, "Why, exactly, aren't you in prison?" The second would be, "G. Gordon Liddy had the grace to serve prison time for the crime he committed in defense of Nixon. Why didn't you do the same for your crime in defense Clinton?" |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-10-09 22:14 |
| #2 This is going to be one of the best pissing contests in history. |
| Posted by: Glererong Pheremp2820 2005-10-09 20:42 |
| #1 The most important part of the 2006/2008 elections will be keeping Hillary and Bubba from gaining any more political power. A 2nd Clinton Whitehouse is unthinkable. |
| Posted by: usmc6743 2005-10-09 20:26 |