Freeh's Revenge
Louis Freeh, Bill Clinton's FBI Director, has written a book called My FBI : Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Fighting the War on Terror. It sounds as though most of the disclosures about the Clinton administration relate to Monica, etc., and will be of relatively little interest. But this one sounds important:
In another revelation, Freeh says the former president let down the American people and the families of victims of the Khobar Towers terror attack in Saudi Arabia. After promising to bring to justice those responsible for the bombing that killed 19 and injured hundreds, Freeh says Clinton refused to personally ask Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to allow the FBI to question bombing suspects the kingdom had in custody – the only way the bureau could secure the interviews, according to Freeh. Freeh writes in the 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.” Says Freeh, “That’s a fact that I am reporting.”
In the current climate of endless carping about President Bush's handling of the war against Islamic terrorists, it is important to remember the fecklessness of the Clinton administration's approach. Is there any reason to think that another Democrat--hey, worse than that, another Clinton!--would do better if elected in 2008?
