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Intel Chief Appoints Controversial Figure as NIC Chairman
FOXNews.com ^ | Thursday, February 26, 200 | n/a

Posted on 02/27/2009 3:10:27 AM PST by Cindy

SNIPPET: ""The country is fortunate that Ambassador Freeman has agreed to return to public service and contribute his remarkable skills toward further strengthening the intelligence community's analytical process," Blair said.

But statements that the former ambassador made over the last three decades on U.S. peace efforts in the Middle East and Iran's threat to the international community have prompted some to question his objectivity in a role that requires it.

For example, in a speech to the Pacific Council on International Policy in October 2007, Freeman said the U.S. has "abandoned the role of Middle East peacemaker to back Israel's efforts to pacify its captive and increasingly ghettoized Arab populations.""

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1 posted on 02/27/2009 3:10:27 AM PST by Cindy
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His comments on the Middle East fade into irrelvancy compared to the really scary stuff he condoned: The Tiananmen Square massacre by the Chicoms.

This sends chills down my spine.

2 posted on 02/27/2009 3:13:31 AM PST by SolidWood (Palin: "In Alaska we eat therefore we hunt.")
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