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My FBI
bringing down the Mafia, investigating Bill Clinton, and fighting the War on Terror
By Freeh, Louis J. & Means, Howard
- ISBN
- 978-0-31232-189-5
- Publisher
- New York : St. Martin's Press, c2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 17, 2005
Freeh defends his performance as FBI director (1993-2001) and retaliates against Richard A. Clarke's Against All Enemies and Bill Clinton's My Life in this smooth memoir, written with the help of Means. "I spent most of the almost eight years as director investigating the man who had appointed me," Freeh declares on the book's first page, but readers expecting juicy revelations about those investigations are going to be disappointed. Freeh goes into fascinating detail when describing the FBI's work on the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia-the most damning thing he has to say about Clinton is that Clinton didn't push for the prosecution of the bombers. Freeh's recounting of his work as an FBI agent in 1970s, when his team helped eviscerate the power of the Italian mafia in New York, is similarly generous with details. And his accounts of his childhood in N...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
