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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 Relation****p with
the President
Former FBI Director Louis Freeh says publicly for the first time that his
relation****p 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 RE****T 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 re****tedly 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 re****ting."
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 relation****p 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.
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