Louis Freeh
Louis Freeh
Louis Joseph Freehserved as the fifth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from September 1993 to June 2001...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth6 January 1950
CountryUnited States of America
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We wish you Godspeed. I wish you had not given the make and model and color of your vehicle,
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We will pursue this matter, ... to whatever end, to whatever consequence, to whatever logical and just conclusion. And you have my promise that I will do whatever I can to see that occurs in the years to come.
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We certainly have put on a full-court press to try to retrieve these weapons, which are very dangerous weapons,
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Trade secrets which go directly to the economic security of the United States, which today is tantamount to our national security,
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We are determined to maintain and enforce the highest standards of ethical conduct by FBI employees,
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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.
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The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.
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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.
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My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.
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It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have always said to myself, 'I never want to say I'm leaving a job because I want to spend more time with my family.' I feel sorry for people when they say that. But my advice to them is that you shouldn't have taken the job in the first place.