Update: In an exclusive email to Headline USA, former FBI Director Louis Freeh’s attorney, Greg Paw, unequivocally denied that Freeh was “One Eye”—the alleged FBI mole identified by self-purported whistleblower Gal Luft.
Paw further said that Luft is a “federal fugitive charged with, among other crimes, lying to federal law enforcement”—referencing the recently unsealed federal indictment against Luft. “The speculation is totally inaccurate,” Paw said.
Luft was charged with the alleged crimes on Monday night, after the original publication of this story.
Despite the denial, Freeh is known to have assisted Hunter Biden on at least one other legal matter that, similarly, involved the blurring of lines between the Biden family’s foreign business transactions and potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Original story below:
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Several reputable conservative media outlets have centered their speculation about the identity of an FBI mole who allegedly tipped off the Biden family on former FBI Director Louis Freeh.
Freeh had dealings with the Bidens and apparently only has one healthy eye—leaving many to speculate that he is the FBI mole, reportedly nicknamed “One Eye,” who was identified by self-purported whistleblower Gal Luft.
Luft hasn’t publicly identified One Eye. He first revealed the existence of this mysterious FBI mole in March, and provided more details in a video earlier this month—describing him as a “very senior retired FBI official, who had a distinct physical characteristic: He had one eye.”
But according to New York Post writer Miranda Devine, who broke the original One Eye story, Luft thinks One Eye is Freeh.
“I think Gal Luft certainly thinks it’s [Freeh],” Devine said last week on Megyn Kelly’s show.
Devine, for her part, has reservations about whether Freeh really was the mole who tipped off Hunter’s Chinese business partners.
Even though Freeh matches the physical description—and even though he appeared in Hunter’s laptop data, and reportedly gave $100,000 to a private trust for Joe Biden’s grandchildren in 2016—Devine has urged caution against jumping to conclusions.
“Gal Luft has been told something by his Chinese business partners, who were also giving money to the Bidens. Hunter Biden certainly must have had a mole in the FBI, because it was true that the FBI was investigating [his Chinese business associates],” Devine told Kelly.
“But whether it was actually Louis Freeh or someone with one eye, we don’t know, because Hunter Biden does tell a lot of different stories to different people. And we know there were other FBI names on the laptop.”
Regardless of any role he may play in the Hunter Biden scandal, Freeh—an appointee of former President Bill Clinton—has been at the forefront of his own share of scandals.
Leading the bureau from September 1993 to June 2001, Freeh’s bureau failed to prevent the two deadliest terrorist attacks in American history: the Oklahoma City bombing, which occurred in April 1995, and the 9/11 attacks, which were planned under his nose and executed three months after he left office.
Journalists have also questioned the circumstances of a 2014 car crash that apparently left him with a severely injured eye. The investigative outlet Who, What, Why wrote about the curious fact that an FBI agent was the first to respond to Freeh’s crash.
“Students of history will note the many instances in which FBI have shown up at sensitive accident/crash scenes with great haste—sometimes seemingly surmounting formidable obstacles, and sometimes arriving in force that would seem impossible based on actual local staffing,” the publication noted, citing the FBI’s controversial investigations into the TWA flight 800 wreck and the plane crash that killed the wife of former CIA officer and embattled Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt.
“Freeh, with his knowledge of details concerning controversial major security events that have not been, in many people’s minds, satisfactorily explained—including 9/11, TWA Flight 800, Oklahoma City, Ruby Ridge, Waco, investigations of the Clintons and more—is in a sensitive position,” it continued. “If his accident was, in the opinion of the FBI, not an accident, then they would conceivably have a reason to be concerned for his safety.”
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.
