From: http://www.foxnews.com/national/060400/fbi_post.sml FBI Boss Would Quit, But He Doesn't Want Clinton to Choose Replacement Sunday, June 4, 2000 By Brian Blomquist and Al Guart FBI Director Louis Freeh - whose feud with Attorney General Janet Reno has exploded in public - would gladly quit, but doesn't want to give President Clinton the chance to pick his replacement, sources told The Post. Those who've worked with Freeh say he's a straight arrow Freeh's rank-and-file agents and Reno's line prosecutors say they still can work together but are alarmed the battle between their bosses has burst into public. One exception is within the funny-money task force, where relations are so bad that prosecutors and agents have had to be placed on separate floors. The jabs have flown rat-a-tat in recent few weeks. Freeh sent Congress a memo suggesting that Reno, who's his boss, was under political pressure to go easy on the Clinton-Gore fund-raising probe in 1996. Reno fired back by sending Congress information revealing that she considered naming an independent counsel to probe whether Freeh gave inaccurate testimony to Congress. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said he was surprised he got the information - which he said was clearly meant to "blacken up Freeh" - because it "was not within the scope of the subpoena." FBI agents - and even some Justice Department prosecutors - say they don't doubt it was retaliation by Reno. "This is how they play ball," said Charles LaBella, the former head of the Justice Department's campaign-finance task force The feud seems to originate with the Clinton-Gore funny-money case. Freeh and LaBella tried to get Reno to name an independent counsel, but Reno refused. Freeh, who has six sons and has complained about his government salary, has wanted to quit for years and move back to New York to take a high-paying private job. But sources say he doesn't want to give Clinton a chance to name his successor in the job, which carries a 10-year term. "He just doesn't like this president. And he's privy to all the facts of all our campaign-finance related cases, so you can't second-guess his judgment," an FBI agent said. Those who've worked with Freeh say he's a straight arrow. "He's the most unpolitical person I've ever met in my life, almost to a fault," said James Kallstrom, who headed the FBI's flagship New York office and has known Freeh since 1976. Another retired head of the New York FBI office, Lewis Schiliro, said: "On numerous occasions, I consulted with him on how to handle cases, and he always said, 'Do what is in the best interest of justice.' From corruption to terrorism to organized crime cases, it's never, ever wavered. And there aren't a lot of people you can say that about." Officially, spokesmen for Reno and Freeh deny there's any feud, claiming there's a long tradition of disagreement between the FBI and Justice Department. "What's different now is that they have spilled over into the public," said FBI spokesman John Collingwood. But on the front lines, FBI agents and Justice Department prosecutors say their bosses are indeed battling - though they claim the disputes don't trickle down and affect their own working relationships. "There's sort of a shared perception among the attorneys and the investigators that the top of the Justice Department is more political than the top of the FBI," one Justice Department prosecutor said. 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