:roll:WASHINGTON (AP) -- Louis Freeh, the FBI director appointed by President Clinton, says his relationship with his boss fell apart because Clinton's "closets were full of skeletons."
Clinton's spokesman said Freeh's account was "a total work of fiction."
Freeh's relationship with Clinton soured due to friction over investigations aimed at the president or his immediate circle, and disagreement over the probe into a 1996 bombing in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 Americans.
In the past, Freeh has strongly criticized the Clinton administration's response to the bombing of Khobar Towers, and has praised President Bush.
In his upcoming book, "My FBI," Freeh says Clinton failed to pressure Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to let the FBI question suspects the kingdom had in custody.
"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 library," Freeh writes.
Jay Carson, Clinton's spokesman, said Freeh "wasn't even present for the meetings he describes. President Clinton repeatedly pressed the Saudis for cooperation on the Khobar Towers investigation and his pressure led to the eventual indictments."
Carson said Freeh's claims about the library "are more untruths in a book that clearly has many."
Freeh discussed the bad blood with Clinton in an interview to be aired Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes."
"We were preoccupied in eight years with multiple investigations," Freeh said in the interview, according to excerpts released Thursday.
In the book, according to CBS, Freeh 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."
Freeh bemoans having to send FBI medical technicians to draw blood for a DNA sample in the investigation into Clinton's relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
"It was like a bad movie and it was ridiculous," Freeh said.
Carson said Freeh's book was "a total work of fiction written by a man who's desperate to clear his name and sell books."
I don't think it really needed be on there at all personally. I mean history is history. And cum on a blue dress really isn't all that important, except when it's yours
(the cum or the blue dress for that matter)But what I found shocking was this.
Be interesting to see if that's true or not.In his upcoming book, "My FBI," Freeh says Clinton failed to pressure Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to let the FBI question suspects the kingdom had in custody.
"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 library," Freeh writes.
Jay Carson, Clinton's spokesman, said Freeh "wasn't even present for the meetings he describes. President Clinton repeatedly pressed the Saudis for cooperation on the Khobar Towers investigation and his pressure led to the eventual indictments."
I can't wait until we're off the oil standard. I know it's a pipe dream, but between Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush ........ all lining the collective American bunghole up to be impaled by the Saudi Royals ....
It'll be nice when we don't need them anymore. Instead of "Hands Across America", I'm envisioning an aerial photo of the U.S. with people assembled such that it resembles a big "FUCK YOU" gesture, facing Mecca of course.
