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Ex-FBI Chief On Clinton's Scandals
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of CBS News
Posted: November 11th, 2006
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/06/60minutes/main9230...
When President Bill Clinton appointed Louis Freeh director of the FBI, he called Freeh a law enforcement legend. But it also turns out that no FBI director had a more strained relationship with the president who had appointed him. Now hes written a book, My FBI, and speaks out for the first time about his years as director, and his toxic relationship with Bill Clinton. Heres how he wrote about the former president: The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals...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. Former Chief of Staff John Podesta says Clinton always referred to the FBI director as Effing Freeh...[After] the 1996 Khobar Towers terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia, where 19 U.S. servicemen died and more than 370 were wounded, President Clinton had sent the FBI to investigate and promised Americans that those responsible would pay. But Freeh says the President failed to keep his promise. The FBI wanted access to the suspects the Saudis had arrested. Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar said the only way to get access to prisoners would be if the president personally asked the crown prince for access. [Freeh] writes...: 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.
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