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Nobody can really know what?s going through the mind of FBI Director Louis Freeh. But it sure is interesting to speculate. This is a man, after all, who has spent his entire career as a federal employee, who ran the federal government?s lumbering law-enforcement bureau through some of its toughest times - the minefields of Waco, Wen Ho Lee and interminable Clinton scandals - with a grace many consider admirable...
...horizon looked relatively quiet; finally, Freeh had the security of knowing that Bush, rather than the rascal Clinton, would choose his successor. The Bureau would be in good hands. At last, after years of patiently biding his time, he?d spotted a good moment to escape...
...This development, of course, puts the FBI right back on the front pages - precisely the spot Freeh had hoped so fervently to avoid during his final months at the helm of the Bureau. Instead of spending his last weeks making the rounds through his old stomping grounds, raising a glass to colleagues, Freeh will spend a considerable amount of time (time which began Wednesday before a House committee) facing down seething legislators on the warpath. Freeh, in other words, is in for a rough couple of weeks...
...folks are wondering whether Freeh will hang around to see his Bureau through its latest scandal, or if he?ll stick to his departure date. TIME?s Elaine Shannon, who has covered the FBI for several years spoke with TIME.com Wednesday afternoon...
...TIME.com: Will Freeh stay and ride out this latest FBI scandal or will he go as planned...