Louis Freeh And The Alternate Universe
What was hinky about the story from the start was that it was an explanation of the accident eight months after the fact, and it came from none other than James Comey, who was FBI Director at the time, backed up by Vermont Sen Patrick Leahy. In LA, celebrities wreck their Porsches and Lambos all the time, LAPD or CHP gives the details, KTLA or the Times reports a day or so later, and everyone moves on. Here, it turns out, Louis Freeh, former FBI Director, wrecks his Yukon fedmobile, the whole matter is swept under the rug for eight months, until the current FBI Director gives the details, which themselves are strange.
Only one source asked the obvious questions, shortly after the wreck itself but well before Director Comey's comments:
Recently, we reported on an Aug. 25 one-car crash involving the long-time former FBI director, Louis Freeh. Considering Freeh’s prominence and tenure in the national security apparatus, the incident has received surprisingly little media attention and virtually no serious scrutiny.
. . . Now, we’d like to update you on two key points, and then on some other curiosities.
First: local Vermont media are reporting that, just prior to his crash along a relatively straight and flat portion of a rural stretch of Vermont Highway 12, Freeh, 64, nearly took out three motorists, whose evasive actions saved themselves.
Second: a still unidentified FBI agent quickly materialized at the scene of the crash.
As I said above, this piece was written eight months before Director Comey and Sen Leahy gave their updates, but the problem of the extra FBI agent who suddenly turned up on the scene stood out right away. The version at the link says this of the agent:
A still unidentified FBI agent was one of the first people to arrive at the accident scene, according to police. He was apparently from out of state. What he was doing there is still not clear. Police believed him to be off-duty, but could not say with certainty.
That report in USA Today from April 24, 2015, eight months after the accident, carried Director Comey's and Sen Leahy's version of events, which raised more questions than they answered. These explanations weren't available to the writers in the link above, and they don't seem to have followed up on them, if they even knew about them:
Former FBI Director Louis Freeh would have died within 60 seconds of sustaining a severed artery in a car crash eight months ago in Vermont if not for the life-saving actions of emergency crews, officials revealed Friday.
Current FBI leader James Comey and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., made the remarks when questioned about Freeh's medical condition, including a leg mangled in the Aug. 25 wreck in Barnard in central Vermont.
This was the first time that public officials have provided details concerning the serious nature of Freeh's condition after the accident.
Leahy noted that Freeh had a severed artery in a leg, but first responders, along with a retired FBI agent who witnessed the crash, came to Freeh's aid.
So OK, the mysterious FBI agent from out of state wasn't on duty, he was retired, and he just happened to be standing around on a rural stretch of Vermont Highway 12 when he witnessed the crash and was able to rush in within a minute and save his former director's life, or something like that. And this is the firat time anyone has provided any details at all about the crash or Freeh's medical condition. The link above notes the initial secrecy over the whole incident:
It’s important to remember that this happened shortly after noon, and not terribly far from Freeh’s vacation home, not typical circumstances for a driver to have fallen asleep.
Freeh and his staff have been mum on the whole thing; the FBI has provided no details or explanation. And law enforcement has not appeared to be especially zealous in figuring out what happened.
. . . Freeh is, or was, under armed guard at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, a hospital in neighboring New Hampshire that is considered among the top hospitals. It routinely has very tight security, so the reason for the extra precautions is not clear.
And nobody said anything more until, eight months later, James Comey, FBI Director himself at the time, backed up by Sen Leahy, gave a not entirely convincing explanation. Their version is that Freeh's femoral artery had been severed in the crash.
"Louis would have died within a minute or so. They stopped the bleeding," Leahy said.
"I told him he better believe in guardian angels," said Leahy, who noted the retired FBI agent also had the same first name as Freeh.
Yes indeed, a severed femoral artery can result in death within minutes -- but how long does it normally take first responders to get to the rural scene of an accident like that? Less than a minute, according to Sen Leahy. Unless the acccident was right outside the local firehouse, I can't buy this. So it must have been the angel FBI agent on the scene, huh?But this doesn't explain how, unless he was a real angel, he was so conveniently on the scene -- but this in turn raises an entirely reasonable question, whether in fact the severed artery was Freeh's actual injury, and the angel agent was just part of a smokescreen. We're sort of back to the same alternate universe where they're frantically searching for the Titan sub before the oxygen runs out, when the pseudo-urgency masks the real question.
In the days after the accident, nothing was released about what happened to Freeh, and everyone -- hospital, police, Freeh's international fixer staff -- was mum. Eight months later, boy oh boy, gotta stop that bleeding or he'll die within minutes! And of course, this doesn't come from the hospital, the police, or Freeh's international fixer staff -- it comes from the current FBI Director and a US senator.
Well, that should settle it, huh? What we do know is that by 2015, Freeh and his team of international fixers were working closely with Hunter Biden on the case of Romanian real estate tycoon Gabriel Popoviciu, who was on the brink of a bribery conviction. By 2016, James Comey was coordinating with the Hillary Clinton campaign to use putative Russian pee tapes against Donald Trump. By 2018, he was saying
“I honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I don’t know whether the current president of the United States was with prostitutes peeing on each other in Moscow in 2013,” the former FBI director, 57, told George Stephanopoulos. “It’s possible, but I don’t know.”
And then there's the entirely separate case of the angel Secret Service agents who turned up at a Delaware gun shop in 2018 to confiscate the paperwork recording the sale of a gun to Hunter Biden, whose girlfriend Hallie had tossed it into a dumpster. The Secret Service said it had no record of its involvement. I guess, like Sen Leahy says, you just gotta believe in guardian angels.Well, it's possible that Louis Freeh fell asleep at the wheel and crashed his fedmobile, and an angel FBI agent turned up on the scene to stop his bleeding or he woulda died, It's possible, but we don't know. Seems like right now, there's a lot we just don't know.
