Louis Freeh

Louis Freeh
Born	Louis Joseph Freeh January 6, 1950 Jersey City, New Jersey
Alma mater	Rutgers University
Religion	Roman Catholic
Children	6 sons
Spouse	Marilyn Freeh
Member of	Homeland Security Advisory Council, Le Cercle, Phi Beta Kappa
Director of the FBI In office September 1, 1993 - June 25, 2001 "A legacy of corruption..."  Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York In office May 30, 1991 - August 31, 1993 Appointed by George H. W. Bush  Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York In office May 30, 1991 - August 31, 1993

Louis Freeh was Director of the FBI for almost 8 years after being appointed a judge by George H. W. Bush. Throughout the 1980s, Freeh worked with or for Rudy Giuliani, who was mayor of New York City on 9/11. He later defended Prince Bandar bin Sultan in connection with the Al-Yamamah arms deal.

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."

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".

Oklahoma Bombing

Full article: Oklahoma City bombing

Jesse Trentadue states that his suits for information yielded a series of teletypes from Louis Freeh which showed that an FBI informant had intercepted a call from Timothy McVeigh to Elohim City two days before the Oklahoma City bombing and asked for help.

9-11 Attacks

Full article: 9-11

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."

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.

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 (MEK, also PMOI, MKO), while the group was on the United States State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (before it was removed on September 2012). 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. As Freeh was videotaped 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.

 

An appointment by Louis Freeh

Appointee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Weldon Kennedy	FBI/Deputy Director	8 August 1995	February 1997	Appointed by Freeh just after the FBI's OKC "investigation".

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:The Political Scientists of Lockerbie - Tom Thurman	blog post	13 November 2010	Adam Larson	"When I raised my concerns with my managers at the FBI laboratory, all except for one of them reminded me that Tom Thurman was the “hero” behind determining the perpetrators of the Pan Am 103 disaster. I understood from that that the FBI would not expose these issues for fear that the investigation into the Pan Am 103 bombing would be seen as possibly flawed and this would open the FBI up to criticism and outside review."

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