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Louis Freeh
American
Lawyer
About the author
I deal in facts.
Louis Freeh,
American
Lawyer
#Facts
We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country.
Louis Freeh,
American
Lawyer
#Country
The country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th.
Louis Freeh,
American
Lawyer
#Country
#Terrorism
And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.
Louis Freeh,
American
Lawyer
#Public
#Years
#Hearing
#Intelligence
The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.
Louis Freeh,
American
Lawyer
#Security
#People
#American
#Safety
#Privacy
My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.
Louis Freeh,
American
Lawyer
#Obligation
I was concerned about who he would put in there as FBI director because he had expressed antipathy for the FBI, for the director. I was going to stay there and make sure that he couldn't replace me.
Louis Freeh,
American
Lawyer
I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.
Louis Freeh,
American
Lawyer
#Years
I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did.
Louis Freeh,
American
Lawyer
#Years
#President
#Idea
Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.
Louis Freeh,
American
Lawyer
#Time
#Information
#Trying
#Intelligence
#Fire
#Water
#Hindsight
The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and 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.
Louis Freeh,
American
Lawyer
#President
#Leading
#Wrong
#Waiting
#Direction
#Dying
#Consulting