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Date	Process	Result
June 2, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
June 11, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
October 17, 2007	Good article reassessment	Delisted

Current status: Delisted good article

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Edits by 84.54.166.36

Once again, 84.54.166.36: Please refrain from editing articles on Wikipedia to reflect your unsourced statements. You have been warned several times. If you dispute the content of an article, the thing to do is come to this page and air your grievances. A discussion will ensue and the material will either be included in a way that conforms to Wikipedia's policies or disregarded. Continual edits will result in your IP being banned. Inoculatedcities 23:29, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

84.54.166.36, please stop presenting unreferenced, and seemingly original, conspiracy theories as fact. - SimonP 14:33, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

Opus Dei

No mention of his membership of Opus Dei, which is important as it is the conerstone of his religious life. Fergananim 18:32, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that he is not in fact a member of Opus Dei; see [1] and [2] Paul 04:19, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I created this article in Esperanto for no good reason at all. Paul 04:51, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
In his book, My FBI, Louis Freeh says (page 300) that is was in fact his brother who was a member of Opus Dei, which is probably the source of confusion.Retsep81 04:51, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good article

I nominated this for peer review because I think it's a pretty solid article that needs just a little more improvement to be featured. It generated little interest, so I'll settle for "good article." Paul 18:09, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Failed GA

This article failed the GA nominations due to lack of references. Tarret 23:17, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article quality

This article is horrible. There is little to no biographical information. It doesn't even list who appointed Freeh as director of the FBI which is what I cam to this article for.

dates of FBI tenure?

I don't see when he resigned, or much explanation as to background. Also, the pizza parlor thing needs to move to the list of notable cases if it's notable.

As to the Opus Dei Academy, there's only the one source listed, and if that book is so notable, it doesn't have an article (or a listing with ISBN details, etc.). If Opus Dei is running an educational system inside this country, more power to 'em, but they need to have better documentation of it. Does the school have a listing in Opus Dei's directory or something we could link to? Ojcit 04:44, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

mcgreevey-cipel controversy

It looks to me like it's still not an established fact, so I changed the text from "revealed" to "alleged." That's apparently in agreement with Golan Cipel (the article, not necessarily the individual...). I'm no expert, but the details of that scandal are probably not within the scope of this article unless more evidence arises. Ojcit 03:35, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

GA Sweeps (delisted)

In order to uphold the quality of Wikipedia:Good articles, all articles listed as Good articles are being reviewed against the GA criteria as part of the GA project quality task force. While all the hard work that has gone into this article is appreciated, unfortunately, as of October 17, 2007, this article fails to satisfy the criteria, as detailed below. For that reason, the article has been delisted from WP:GA. However, if improvements are made bringing the article up to standards, the article may be nominated at WP:GAN. If you feel this decision has been made in error, you may seek remediation at WP:GAR.

Ruslik 08:36, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The reasons:

1) Citations should after punctuation marks, not before.

2) The lead should be expanded.

3) The use of the summary style is questinable. This article is about a person not about some major topic, which in itself needs a summary style. Many articles named as the main for the sections don't even mention Mr. Freeh. There is litle information about Louis Freeh as a person especially his life before he became director of FBI. The current content of the article doesn't justify the use Louis Freeh's name as a title. A more appropriate title is "FBI during Louis Freeh's tenure" or something like that.

The article should be rewritten as a prose containing more personal info about Louis Freeh, including his whereabouts before and after his FBI director service. Ruslik 08:36, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot-created subpage

A temporary subpage at User:Polbot/fjc/Louis J. Freeh was automatically created by a perl script, based on this article at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. The subpage should either be merged into this article, or moved and disambiguated. Polbot (talk) 20:58, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Khobar Bombing

The theory that Hezbollah is behing the bombing of Khobar Towers is presented as fact: "Shortly before 10 a.m. on June 25, 1996, members of Hezbollah detonated a truck bomb outside building 131". According to Gareth Porter the involvement of Hezbollah is is highly unlikely and Al Qaeda is most probably the real perpetrator. Indeed, Louis Freeh may quite possibly have had a personal stake in the outcome of that affair: http://original.antiwar.com/porter/2009/06/26/freeh-became-defense-lawyer-for-saudis-on-khobar-attack/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.207.222.12 (talk) 00:06, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Name

It is not clear how Freeh's name is pronounced. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.97.55.83 (talk) 17:47, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Whitewater and associated issues

Freeh was very active in the Whitewater investigation and eagerly provided Kenneth Starr with information and leads to expand the investigation to other areas as it reached dead ends on the original charges against the Clintons. He was accused of insubordination in his attempts to use public forums and his ties to Republican congressmen to force his superior Janet Reno to appoint various independent investigators to broaden the scope to supposed illegal campaign contributions to the Clintons and "Travelgate", a politically-motivated firestorm over the firing of some White House travel agents. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.231.120.46 (talk) 18:04, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Louis Freeh support of the PMOI/MEK section

At this point, I feel the section is well-sourced and written in a neutral manner. I have revised the content multiple times and have received only removals stating the content was NNPOV or utilizing politicized sources. As this has been remedied, I fail to see the current complication with the content. I am perfectly happy to revise it, but I do not feel that a person whose background that matches Mr. Freeh's support for a terrorist group that killed Americans on a paid basis both before and after the de-listing is a subject that ought to be entirely ignored.

As there have been no suggestions or improvements, I fail to see an adequate method for dispute resolution.

172.56.3.194 (talk) 04:52, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@172.56.3.194: None of the sources listed state that Louis Freeh provided paid advocacy to the organization in question. Your statement about what constitutes "material support" is WP:SYN, and Youtube is not a reliable source. The second paragraph has nothing to do with Freeh and is better suited to an article about the organization in question. This is walking a dangerous line on a biography of a living person. There is not consensus at this time to add this information. EricSerge (talk) 20:26, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

MIA

Missing In Article, mention of which should be included as part of Louis Freeh's curriculum vitæ.

From this document [3]:

"Corporate Compliance Monitor" at pp. 9-10 of document,
"Attachment D - Independent Corporate Monitor" pp.93-98 of same document:

References found in this article [4]

--90.62.115.127 (talk) 18:03, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Louis Freeh/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

It has a picture and many subheadings and a significant amount of info. However, the article can be expanded, and an infobox would be helpful. Green caterpillar 20:56, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 20:56, 8 September 2006 (UTC). Substituted at 22:29, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

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Freeh as a listed passenger on pediphile Jeffrey Epstein's Lolita Express

Why does Freeh's wikipage not include him on the plane? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jeffrey-epstein-maxwell-prince-andrew-b2473096.html 2600:8800:FF0E:300:4D36:8D16:52E7:F4D6 (talk) 22:57, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It isn't included in Freeh's biography because "the list includes many of Epstein’s accusers and alleged victims" as well as wrong-doers, according to the source. It isn't a list of people who flew on that airplane. If something like that does turn up, from a reputable, neutral source, it will be mentioned.--FeralOink (talk) 18:20, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]