Ex-FBI chief: Clinton was big problem

In a new bombshell book, former FBI Director Louis Freeh reveals he had a terrible relationship with President Clinton, whose many scandals made him a constant target of FBI investigation.

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"The problem was with Bill Clinton – the scandals and the rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended," Freeh writes in "My FBI: Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Fighting the War on Terror," according to the Drudge Report.

"Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction," Freeh says. "His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out."

Freeh discussed his book, to be released next week, in a taped interview with Mike Wallace of CBS News' "60 Minutes," scheduled for broadcast Sunday.

The former FBI director told Wallace he was determined to stay on until President Clinton left office to prevent Clinton from appointing 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," Freeh said. "[So] I was going to stay there and make sure he couldn't replace me."

Freeh said he tried to distance himself from Clinton because of the Whitewater scandal, refusing to accept a White House pass that would allow him to enter without signing in.

That upset Clinton, according to Freeh.

"I wanted all my visits to be official," he said. "When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president."

The rift grew, Freeh said, to the point where Clinton reportedly began referring to the director as "that F---ing Freeh."

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"I don't know how they referred to me and I really didn't care," Freeh told Wallace. "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."

In the book, Freeh claims the former president let down the American people and the families of victims of the Khobar Towers terror attack in Saudi Arabia, according to Drudge.

Clinton promised to bring justice to the perpetrators of an attack that killed 19 and injured hundreds, but Freeh says the president prevented the FBI from interviewing the suspects in Saudi custody by refusing to personally ask permission of Crown Prince Abdullah.

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."

He told Wallace: "That's a fact that I am reporting."

In the interview, Freeh said his investigation of the Monica Lewinsky affair and the semen-stained dress "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."

He said he "very confidentially" obtained the blood sample from the president needed to match the DNA on the dress.

In the book, Freeh explains Clinton excused himself to go to the bathroom at a scheduled dinner but, instead, entered another room where FBI medical technicians waited to take the sample.