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...TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon, who has covered Freeh for years, spoke with TIME.com Tuesday...
...Freeh?s announcement that he was quitting come as a surprise to anyone...
...Appointed as director by President Clinton in 1993, Freeh was employed at the FBI for 27 years, and accrued a reputation for sometimes brutal honesty and a dedication to his own strict ethical code...
...Elaine Shannon:No. Freeh has played this retirement question both ways for some time - speculation has been going on for at least three years now. Nobody ever thought he'd do the whole ten?year term at the helm of the Bureau. And at various junctures you?d hear he was talking to this or that law firm, which he?s always denied. Or you?d hear about people calling around on his behalf. He?d also deny those rumors...
...those rumors weren?t something the press invented. Everyone from rookie agents to the senior executives at the FBI talked about this. If you ran into Freeh at a social event, and you asked him about the rumors, he?d say "My wife would sure like to see that...