|
Clinton’s closet revealed
Drudge is reporting on former FBI Director Louis Freeh’s upcoming book, "My
FBI : Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Fighting the
War on Terror".
Drudge reports on Freeh’s interview for "CBS 60 Minutes" on Sunday:
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."
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," he tells Wallace. "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," he tells Wallace. "[So]
I was going to stay there and make sure he couldn’t replace me," Freeh tells
Wallace.
U.S. stopped 10 plots
President Bush sent the message that Islamic terrorists are bent on creating
an 11th Century world and that the U.S. has helped stop ten terrorists’
plots. The
Washington Post reports on the speech and revelations:
The United States and its allies have thwarted at least 10 serious al Qaeda
terrorist plots since Sept. 11, 2001, including never-before-disclosed plans
to use hijacked commercial airliners to attack the East and West coasts in
2002 and 2003, President Bush and his aides said yesterday.
The reported plots aimed to strike a wide variety of targets, including the
Library Tower in Los Angeles, ships in international waters and a tourist
site overseas, the White House said last night. Three of the 10 were
directed at U.S. soil, officials said. The government, they added, also
stopped five al Qaeda efforts to case possible targets or infiltrate
operatives into the country.
Hillary accountable?
The
Hillary Accountability Project is reporting on a civil suit that may
cause her great embarrassment and large legal bills:
The first ever
civil suit to charge a U.S. President and Senator with fraud, coercion
and conspiracy was given a major boost during the recent trial of David
Rosen, former National Finance Director of Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate
campaign, when the Justice Department corroborated several key allegations
of the civil suit with no challenge from the defense. Among them: that
Plaintiff Peter Paul contributed more than $1.2 million of his personal
funds to Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign as part of an attempt to involve
Bill Clinton in Paul's internet businesses after he left the White House,
and that the co-defendants in the civil suit were acting on behalf of Bill
and Hillary Clinton.
Internet destroyed?
The
Guardian reports on the United Nations taking over the control of the
Internet:
Hendon is the Department for Trade and Industry's director of business
relations and was in Geneva representing the UK government and European
Union at the third and final preparatory meeting for next month's World
Summit on the Information Society. He had just announced a political coup
over the running of the internet.
Old allies in world politics, representatives from the UK and US sat just
feet away from each other, but all looked straight ahead as Hendon explained
the EU had decided to end the US government's unilateral control of the
internet and put in place a new body that would now run this revolutionary
communications medium.
Democrat myths
Political scientists Elaine Kamarck and William Galstontold warn fellow
Democrats that they needed to abandon "election myths".
They said the current "myths" are:
·
The belief that Democrats can win if they just do a great job
of mobilizing their base. Republicans have improved at mobilizing their own
base, so Democrats need to do more than that.
·
The theory that demographic changes over time will make
Democrats a majority, a questionable concept with the Hispanic vote
increasingly up for grabs.
·
The belief that Democrats can succeed politically if they
simply learn to talk more effectively about their positions.
·
The strategy of avoiding cultural issues, playing down
national security and changing the subject to domestic issues. National
security is too dominant a concern now.
|
