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==Career==
 
==Career==
 
[[Judicial Watch]] pointed to a “legacy of corruption” at the [[FBI]] under Freeh, listing the espionage scandal at Los Alamos National Laboratories, as well as "Filegate, [[Waco]], the [[Ruby Ridge]] cover-up, the Olympic bombing frame-up of [[Richard Jewell]], [and] falsification of evidence concerning the [[Oklahoma City bombing]]."<ref>http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/2001/printer_921.shtml</ref>
 
[[Judicial Watch]] pointed to a “legacy of corruption” at the [[FBI]] under Freeh, listing the espionage scandal at Los Alamos National Laboratories, as well as "Filegate, [[Waco]], the [[Ruby Ridge]] cover-up, the Olympic bombing frame-up of [[Richard Jewell]], [and] falsification of evidence concerning the [[Oklahoma City bombing]]."<ref>http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/2001/printer_921.shtml</ref>
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Freeh, who demoted [[Larry Potts]] stated that "I had known Larry since my U.S. attorney days when we worked together down in Atlanta on the Moody case".<ref>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4954665</ref>
  
 
==9-11 Attacks==
 
==9-11 Attacks==

Revision as of 18:13, 22 May 2015

Person.png Louis Freeh  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
BornJanuary 6, 1950
Member ofHomeland Security Advisory Council, Le Cercle, Phi Beta Kappa

Employment.png Director of the FBI

In office
September 1, 1993 - June 25, 2001
"A legacy of corruption..."

Served as Director of the FBI for almost 8 years.

Career

Judicial Watch pointed to a “legacy of corruption” at the FBI under Freeh, listing the espionage scandal at Los Alamos National Laboratories, as well as "Filegate, Waco, the Ruby Ridge cover-up, the Olympic bombing frame-up of Richard Jewell, [and] falsification of evidence concerning the Oklahoma City bombing."[1]

===Demotion of Larry Potts Freeh, who demoted Larry Potts stated that "I had known Larry since my U.S. attorney days when we worked together down in Atlanta on the Moody case".[2]

9-11 Attacks

On November 21, 2012, Kevin Ryan published a well referenced and compendious article entitled "Why Louis Freeh Should Be Investigated For 9/11", which concluded that "Under Louis Freeh, the FBI failed miserably at preventing terrorism when preventing terrorism was the FBI’s primary goal. Moreover, the actions of FBI management suggest that it was facilitating and covering-up acts of terrorism throughout the time that Freeh was the Bureau’s director. Fifteen examples have been cited here from the time of Freeh’s tenure and three other examples were given from the time just after he left, when it was unclear why he left or what he was doing. Add to these examples the fact that the FBI took extraordinary measures to hide evidence related to the 9/11 attacks and it becomes startling clear that Mr. Freeh should be a prime suspect in any honest investigation."[3]

Al-Yamamah arms deal

Full article: Al-Yamamah arms deal

Prince Bandar bin Sultan, later to become Director of the Saudi Intelligence agency, hired Freeh as his legal representative on issues surrounding the Al-Yamamah arms deal.[4]

Support for the People's Mujahedin of Iran

The New York Times reported that Freeh (together with a bunch of other establishment figures including James Woolsey, Porter Goss, Michael Mukasey, Tom Ridge, James L. Jones, Rudolph Giuliani and Howard Dean) accepted a fee to speak for the People's Mujahedin of Iran[5] (MEK, also PMOI, MKO),[6] while the group was on the United States State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (before it was removed on September 2012).[7] Under federal law, this is permissible and does not constitute providing material support, however advocacy at the direction of, or in cooperation with personnel of the FTO is material support.[8][9][10][11] As Freeh was videotaped[6] with the leader of the FTO advocating for the group, his support may have violated federal counter-terror related statutes, though no charges against have ever been filed against him.

Car crash

Shortly after noon on August 25, 2014, Louis Freeh was involved in a one-car crash. Considering his prominence and tenure in the "national security" apparatus, the incident received surprisingly little attention from the commercially-controlled media and virtually no serious scrutiny. His SUV reportedly left the highway and hit a tree. Local papers have been the most energetic at reporting, but basic facts are still missing about the incident.[12]

 

An appointment by Louis Freeh

AppointeeJobAppointedEndDescription
Weldon KennedyFBI/Deputy Director8 August 1995February 1997Appointed by Freeh just after the FBI's OKC "investigation".
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