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This Lasted All of Three Hours On CNN's Main Page.

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:39 pm
by Tom In VA
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/06/ ... index.html
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."
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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 :lol: (the cum or the blue dress for that matter)

But what I found shocking was this.

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."
Be interesting to see if that's true or not.

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.

Re: This Lasted All of Three Hours On CNN's Main Page.

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:41 pm
by BSmack
Tom In VA wrote: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.
Keep dreaming Tom. Its not like the fortunes of the American energy industry aren't intertwined with the Saudi Royal family or anything.

Re: This Lasted All of Three Hours On CNN's Main Page.

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:11 pm
by Tom In VA
BSmack wrote:
Tom In VA wrote: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.
Keep dreaming Tom. Its not like the fortunes of the American energy industry aren't intertwined with the Saudi Royal family or anything.
You know that's what I don't understand.

The existing energy companies have the capital more than anyone to investigate alternative energy sources. They can stay in the BLACK, just with other resources.

Or the scary thing is, maybe they can't. Maybe everything else would be just too damned expensive and impractical. Is that what we're up against ?


AOL, sucks as an ISP, but as a business they moved so swift and change course just at the right time ... they not only survived but they thrived.

I can't see the oil companies not wanting to cash in and get in on the ground floor of the next big thing. In fact, I'll say it again, that's what worries me, is there the next big thing and are there truly viable alternatives ?

I have to think there are. I mean if we can put a man on the moon for Christ's sake.

End of rant.

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:14 pm
by Mikey
Some of them (maybe all?) are getting ready to cash in on "the next big thing", or whatever it is we will be using in the future. BP is already one of the largest manufacturers of solar panels.

But right now they stand to make too much money by inflating the price of oil and gasoline to let too much else distract their attention.

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:18 pm
by Tom In VA
Mikey wrote: But right now they stand to make too much money by inflating the price of oil and gasoline to let too much else distract their attention.
You know if the inflation of prices, provides them with more money to invest in, research and arrive at .... alternatives ....


Sounds like a trade off I'd be willing to make.

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 8:52 pm
by Mikey
Tom In VA wrote:
Mikey wrote: But right now they stand to make too much money by inflating the price of oil and gasoline to let too much else distract their attention.
You know if the inflation of prices, provides them with more money to invest in, research and arrive at .... alternatives ....


Sounds like a trade off I'd be willing to make.
If that's truly what they're doing.

I have a feeling, though, that most of corporate America no longer looks that far down the road.

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:34 pm
by DrDetroit
It took Freeh this long to bash Clinton? And he still didn't explain why he didn't investigate the obvious illegal contributions from the Chinese or the bribe to pardon Marc Rich??

:roll:

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:41 pm
by Variable
Someone mailed him Vince Foster's fricasseed scrotum and Freeh suddenly lost interest in the case.

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:53 pm
by DrDetroit
"Viable?" What factors do you use to determine the viability of a resource?

Primarily -- cost and oil, by far, remains the cheapest energy resource there is.

BTW - I wonder how Mikey thinks the oil firms inflate oil prices??