October 06, 2005
Louis Freeh: "Bill Clinton Did Not Stain Me"
Louis Freeh, appointed as FBI Director by President Clinton, is releasing his new book next week titled "My FBI : Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Fighting the War on Terror." According to information from the Drudge Report, Freeh didn't have a good relationship with Clinton. Here's what part of that report says:
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.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.â€Â
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 (Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes). “[So] I was going to stay there and make sure he couldn’t replace me,†Freeh tells Wallace.
This revelation is not really a surprise. However, the book and discussions about it should be interesting.
Clinton's "fight" against terror is upsetting. It makes one wonder how many other people died so that he could get money for his library. Also, I wonder if this will have any impact on the campaign of the next Democratic presidential nominee, who is still rumored to be married to the former president.
Maybe Bush can be blamed.
Posted by GM Roper at October 6, 2005 04:30 PM | TrackBackI wonder how long the MSM will take to start castigating L. Freeh.
Whoops, it's already started.... Why am I not surprised?
Posted by GM Roper at October 7, 2005 01:47 PM
It amazes me that people forget that Hilary once said that the Arabs had a right to Jerusalem and Palestine. That after the khobar towers were hit Clinton didn't retaliate, that when Bush thought there was a connection between Osama and Saddam nobody remembered that Clinton said there was. How can a man like Clinton who put up with personal attacks, embarassment, and accusations and finally having Congress not cooperate with him, how can he want to see all that misery revisited on another President.
Posted by E Dodge at January 3, 2006 11:01 PM
