Louis Freeh and 9/11

It was Louis Freeh's turn at the 9/11 investigatory commission. Now here's a man, former FBI director under Clinton, whom I feel probably deserves to shoulder some blame.

Freeh, if I read correctly, was rather liberal with his vacations, even at a time when we were seeing increased terrorism, and there were some real questions raised about how the FBI was doing business (the scandals in the FBI forensic labs, for example). Freeh, a Republican, may have been kept in place by Clinton, but he bent over backwards to help any Republican who wanted to launch yet another investigation into Clinton or any of Clinton's administration.

What bugs me is not just that Clinton was being investigated for some new thing almost every minute of every day. What bothers me most is that all too often, what he was being investigated on mattered so little. Monica. White Water. The list goes on.

Clinton made some errors that I feel should have been thoroughly gone through, but none of them involved fellatio, interns, penny-anty land deals, and "murdering" Vince Foster.

The resources of the FBI, Secret Service, et al, should have been far better used in the years leading up to September 2001. One of the main distractions, instead, was the right wing trying to make Clinton sound like a sexual deviant.

That so many died because the government was so focused on trying to operate around all the Monica et all investigations is unforgiveable. Louis Freeh helped perpetrate these distractions.