Posted on 03/04/2009 9:58:05 AM PST by Shellybenoit
The pressure continues to build on the White House to pull the appointment of Chas Freeman Jr. in the key intelligence position of Chairmen of the National Intelligence Council (NIC). Congressman Pete Hoekstra (R., Mich.) the ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee has called on the President to withdraw the appointment.
At issue is Freeman's role as a Saudi mouth piece. The Ambassador presided over a "think-tank" and publication featuring hostility to western positions that is beyond the broadest mainstream of U.S. thinking on the region. In addition, his slavish following of the Saudi "party line" has involved Mr. Freeman in some embarrassing situations. In exchange, for his role as Saudi mouthpiece he received lavish support for his Middle East Policy Center (MEPC) and lucrative contracts for the consulting firm he founded to guide international companies into finding royal family-connected partners within the Saudi elite. This raises the reasonable questions as to whether Ambassador Freeman acted as an unregistered Saudi agent. This role has created significant concern about his impartiality as chief U.S. intelligence analyst on matters that will clearly involve Saudi views and interests:
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What’s the difference between Freeman and James Baker?
Egads!
Either the Obama White House is positively chock full of a great big bunch of connivers, or it full of meatheads.
Some choice. It really doesn’t matter, does it?
The death of America from the inside.
Exactly. We already have open borders and sanctuary cities. The consequences are obvious. How can Americans be so stupid?
It's like We The People are right handed, but the left hand picked up a pistol and blew our collective brains out.
Chairmanship of the NIC.
Heck, I didn't even want Baker on that useless Iraqi Study Group.
OOPS! Huma Abedin
OOPS! Huma Abedin
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