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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a51446/what-was-comey-thinking/
"The president, to his eternal regret, chose Louis J. Freeh as the new director. A former FBI agent who had joined the Bureau in 1975, a year after Nixon's resignation, Freeh had been a prosecutor and a federal judge in the Southern District of New York. But as Clinton would soon learn, Freeh did not see the president as his boss's boss; he viewed him as a subject of criminal investigations. After Freeh was sworn in, on September 1, 1993, he turned in his White House pass. He spoke with Clinton no more than six times over the seven-plus years he spent in office. John Podesta, Bill Clinton's longtime aide—and Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign manager—said that the president always referred to his FBI director as "fucking Freeh." Freeh himself wrote in a memoir that Clinton "came to believe that I was trying to undo his presidency." But a president under investigation by the FBI could not, as a matter of politics, fire its director.
Freeh's assault on Clinton started with Whitewater, a labyrinth of innuendo suggesting that Bill and Hillary had been bought off by crooks and swindlers in shady dealings that went back to the beginning of Bill's career in Arkansas. The investigation went on until the end of Clinton's presidency, spawned a special committee in the Senate, and led to the appointment of an independent counsel in 1994. While Whitewater resulted in convictions against several power brokers with roots in Little Rock, it never directly implicated the Clintons in political corruption. Bill Clinton said that the whole investigation was a sham.
But by the time Clinton was sworn in for his second term, in 1997, the president and the FBI were in open war. Freeh and his agents had been investigating the Clintons to no avail, probing for something, anything, to prosecute. Four years and more than $30 million produced nothing of significance until a twenty-four-year-old former White House intern named Monica Lewinsky was interrogated by the FBI."