Because the person who was really President in the 90's, may want to be
president again.
"JB" <wills.jack@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:1128698092.635068.46960@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Billary/2008 wrote:
>> from Drudge
>> ----------------------------------
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> MORE
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Developing...
>>
>> --
>> Love Billary
>> Tampa, FL
>
> Why would people be trying to dig up dirt on someone who hasn't been
> president for 5 years?
>
> Oh. Never mind.
>
|
