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Originally posted by Gattigap
As it happens, I've heard this was the exact sales pitch ("Of Course, It's New and It's True! After All, We Spent Millions to Bring It To Print!") that Anonymous Press used in its pitch to Wal-mart.
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Millions? Some hack probably banged out Freeh's book in a week in exchange for a case of Camels and a weekend in Vegas.
And lest we forget, we're talking the same guy
who was a complete failure at his job - do the names Hansen, Ames, Leung ring any bells? He also didn't believe in computers for his agents, or in the need for compartmentalization within the agency. The Michael Brown of the Clinton years.
- Facing this potential onslaught, Freeh made a tacit arrangement with the new Republican barons on the hill, as David Plotz of Slate and others have written. Freeh would focus on multiple investigations of his nominal bosses in the Clinton administration--Whitewater, Henry Cisneros, Mike Espy, Vince Foster--in exchange for a free pass on his and the bureau's many failings. That left problems in counter-intelligence free of either internal or congressional scrutiny. If Clinton administration officials were alarmed about the FBI's compartmentation problems and had plans to fix it--and it's not clear that they were--there was little they could do because of the Republican power on the Hill. Any attempt to rein in the bureau would be seen as an effort to stymie those investigations. In that climate of malign neglect, the bureau's ills were allowed to fester.
