Freeh, At Last

Former FBI Director Louie Freeh has finally decided to reveal his opinions about President Bill Clinton, the man he served for seven and a half years. In a new book, Mr. Freeh confesses that he stuck out his long tour of duty mainly because he feared what a new Clinton-appointed director would do to the investigations of various administration scandals.
Mr. Freeh directly faults the Clinton administration for its handling of terrorists. He says the former president let down the American people and the families of victims of the 1996 Khobar Towers terror attack in Saudi Arabia. The bombing killed 19 U.S. military personnel. Though the president had vowed to bring to justice those who committed the attacks, Mr. Clinton refused personally to ask Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to allow the FBI to question bombing suspects in Saudi custody -- the only way the FBI would have gotten access to the suspects. "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." So far, Mr. Clinton's office has declined to comment on the Freeh allegations.