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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Judge Webster and anyone he selects to assist him will have complete access and whatever resources are necessary to complete the task, ... He will report directly to the attorney general and I, and we will share his report with the National Security Council and the Congress. I intend to act swiftly on any of his recommendations.
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That's what I've been preaching to them for the last eight years--that their job at the end of the day is not to gauge whether their actions are going to cause embarrassment or not, whether what we ask them to do is convenient, or consistent with safe decisions and smooth careers,
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It is a testament to the American judicial system and the American people that 25 years have not been able to erase or soften the facts of the case,
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I think we have the tools there. I just think we need more resources,
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I would clearly characterize it in that fashion.
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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.
We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country.
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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 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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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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It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever.
I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.
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The country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th.
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My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.