Louis Freeh Watch: Who is Telling the Truth?
Ok!
So, who are you going to believe?
Matt Drudge has CLINTON AIDES BATTLE FREEH OVER ’60 MINUTES,’ BOOK.
Under strong pressure from former President Bill Clinton’s advisers, CBS’s ”60 Minutes” has agreed to read a statement denying an explosive charge being made on Sunday nght’s program by former FBI director Louis Freeh, the WASHINGTON POST reports.
In the statement, Samuel “Sandy” Berger, Clinton’s national security adviser, challenges Freeh’s assertion that Clinton failed to press Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to cooperate with an investigation of the 1996 bombing of Khobar Towers in that country, and used the occasion to ask for a contribution to his presidential library. The Saudis made such a donation last year _ six years after the 1998 meeting.
Berger, who was at the meeting, said: “The president strongly raised the need for Saudi officials to cooperate with us on the investigation into the attack on Khobar Towers at the time when the FBI was attempting to gain access to the suspects. The president did not raise in any fashion the issue of his library.”
Clinton spokesman Jay Carson said he told CBS’s Mike Wallace that he had supportive accounts from five other former officials at the meeting, including those briefed about a private conversation between Clinton and Abdullah.
“The fair journalistic question is why they didn’t call and get comments for their story from people who were in the room, such as Sandy Berger, and why they took until Friday afternoon to get that done,” said Lanny Davis, a former White House lawyer, who tried to persuade ”60 Minutes” producer Jeff Fager to allow him or another Clinton spokesman to appear on Sunday night’s segment.
Carson, who called the Freeh book “a total work of fiction.”
Is this a media bias problem with 60 Minutes again?
Is this a Clinton control the media problem?
Or is Freeh lying to sell his book?
Who is hiding the ball here?
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One Comment
Dr. Don
Former FBI Director Louis Freeh claims there were numerous occassions when Bill Clinton
talked tough on terrorism, but in reality Clinton was less than enthusiastic.
However, he was enthusiastic when it came to securing donations for the Clinton Lie-brary.
To dispute these allegations, former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger defended the
former president.
Our dilemma is clearly: Do we believe a presidential administration mired in indictments and cover-ups, such as Whitewater, Travelgate, Monicagate?
Clinton insiders have been convicted and imprisoned, and Berger was found guilty of stealing and destroying top-secret documents and lying to conceal his guilt.
Or, do we believe Freeh, who has never been indicted or found guilty of any crime?
I would believe Freeh–without question.