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Nancy Pelosi Objects to Louis Freeh
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has objected to House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s plan to appoint former FBI Director Louis Freeh to head up a probe of the Congressional Page system in the wake of the Mark Foley scandal.
"The Speaker reached out to Democrat Leader Pelosi and shared with her that Louis Freeh would be a great choice to strengthen the security of the House Page program," a top House GOP leadership aide told the Washington, D.C.-based publication The Hill.
"Pelosi rejected the idea” because she wanted to "focus attention on the investigation."
It’s not clear if the California congresswoman ultimately has the power to block Freeh’s appointment. Pelosi may have balked at Freeh having an investigative role in the scandal because many Democrats view him as a Republican ally, according to The Hill.
Story Continues Below Freeh’s 2005 book, "My FBI: Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Fighting the War on Terror," was highly critical of Clinton.
Clinton nominated Freeh for the FBI director job in 1993, and former Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal once called Freeh "bar-none Clinton’s worst appointment." In the last four years, Freeh has given thousands of dollars in political contributions to Republicans and nothing to Democrats.
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