Posted on 03/03/2009 7:44:06 PM PST by Shellybenoit
Ambassador Charles W. "Chas" Freeman Jr.'s nomination as chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC) has quickly become the Obama administration's most controversial appointment to date.
Mr. Freeman's two post-government activities involved being a de facto employee of Saudi Arabia. In exchange, 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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And that's saying something. The only appointment I can think of that WASN'T controversial (i.e., a mess) was Gates, and that wasn't really even an appointment.
Let’s face it. We are now saddled with the most corrupt, left wing administration since ...since....since ever!
I am not sure why anyone would think that foreign governments don’t do their best to recruit or develop special relationships with US officials; it is the way the world works and the US has certainly done it when it could and had the will/brain. Saudi Arabia and China are high on my list of countries that do this, as well as financing US electoral campaigns indirectly. Anyone remember Hsu?
All that said, since the end of the cold war, it seems the US congress has been increasingly for sale.
Obama is an agent for the House of Suad.
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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