From
Drudge:
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. 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....
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 reportedly 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 reporting."
Here is an incredible article to read in hindsight about the Clinton response to the Khobar Towers bombing, which was signature Clinton: talk tough because the polls say that's what the public wants to hear and do nothing because there are more important distractions. Of particular note is the description of Sandy Berger in the light of the revelations that he stole national security documents in his underwear to prevent damaging revelations:
In late 1998, Walsh reports, Freeh went to national security adviser Sandy Berger to tell him that it appeared the FBI had enough evidence to indict several suspects. "Who else knows this?" Berger asked Freeh, demanding to know if it had been leaked to the press. Freeh said it was a closely held secret. Then Berger challenged some of the evidence of Iranian involvement. "That's just hearsay," Berger said. "No, Sandy," Freeh responded. "It's testimony of a co-conspirator . . ." According to Walsh's account, Freeh thought that "Berger...was not a national security adviser; he was a public-relations hack, interested in how something would play in the press.
Here is an excellent roundup today about the spy in the White House scandal that broke yesterday. At the heart of it all, apparently, was the Clinton subordination of national security to fundraising. Here, for example, is a
must-read on how Clinton turned down the offer of bin Laden by Sudan.
Here is another by Clinton adviser Dick Morris.
