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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 Relationship 
with the President

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.

Freeh has taped an interview with Mike Wallace and CBSNEWS '60 MINUTES' 
to be broadcast Sunday, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.


In the book, “My FBI,ö 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.ö

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,ö says Freeh. “When I sent the pass back with a 
note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president,ö 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.ö Says Freeh, “I don’t know how they referred to me 
and I really didn’t care,ö 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,ö 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.ö Says Freeh, “That’s a fact that I am reporting.ö 

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 relationship 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,ö he tells Wallace. “But we did 
it…very carefully, very confidentially,ö 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,ö he tells 
Wallace. “[So] I was going to stay there and make sure he couldn’t 
replace me,ö Freeh tells Wallace.


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