Freeh speaks freely

Remember the Islamic terrorist bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia?

They murdered 19 of our servicemen and injured hundreds.

The then-director of the FBI, Louis Freeh, reports in a new book, “My FBI: Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton and Waging War on Terror,” that President Clinton refused to personally ask Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to allow the FBI to question bombing suspects that the kingdom had in custody.

That was the only way that the Bureau could have questioned these suspected killers of Americans. Instead, reports Freeh’s new book:

“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. That’s a fact that I am reporting.”

What does this outrage say to the families of the murdered U.S. servicemen?

And what does Bill Clinton say? The (hardly conservative) Washington Post reported: “The former president declined to be interviewed.”

Clinton’s spokesman Jay Carson said, “This is clearly a total work of fiction by a man who’s desperate to clear his name and sell books, and it’s unfortunate he’d stoop to this level in his attempt to rewrite history.”

The Post noted Freeh contributed nearly $20,000 to Republicans, including President Bush, in the last campaign.

Mr. Carson also said that former director Freeh’s book is full of untruths.

Well now. Why wasn’t Bill Clinton himself willing to make this claim – concerning the former FBI director that he himself appointed?

Is it possible that the former president realized that if he personally made any such statements on radio or TV, most of America would remember how he lied about his oral-sex adulterous relationship with Monica Lewinsky?

Why yes – that unforgettable is hugely possible.

The former FBI director also reports in his new book:

“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.”

The director sought to distance himself from Clinton because of Whitewater, refusing a White House pass that would have enabled him to enter the building without signing in. This irked Clinton.

“I wanted all my visits to be official,” says Freeh. “When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president.”

Returning the pass was only the start of the rift. Later, relations got so bad that Clinton reportedly began referring to Freeh as “that f—ing Freeh.”

Says Freeh: “I don’t know how they referred to me and I really didn’t care. 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.”

The most unsavory of those investigations was the one concerning Clinton and Lewinsky. The White House intern had kept a semen-stained dress as proof of her relationship, and a Clinton blood sample was needed to match the DNA on the dress.

“Well, it 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. But we did it …very carefully, very confidentially,” recalls Freeh. As he explains the plan in the book, Clinton was at a scheduled dinner and excused himself to go to the bathroom. Instead of the restroom, he entered another room where FBI medical technicians were waiting to take a blood sample.

Freeh says he was determined to stay on as FBI director until President Clinton left office so that Clinton could not appoint 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. [So] I was going to stay there and make sure he couldn’t replace me.”

All of this from the former FBI director whom Clinton himself appointed, raises a major presidential political question:

How will all of this – in this devastating former FBI director’s documentary – affect the presidential ambitions of Sen. Hillary – who has stayed married to this absolute rogue?