Obama's Intelligence Pick Quits
Freeman Would Have Been Very Dangerous to the Country
Reflection of Obama's Real Views
President Obama's nominee for chairman of the National Intelligence Council, Charles (Chas) Freeman, withdrew his nomination yesterday after his extreme, anti-American views and associations were exposed.
This is great news for the country, but the downside is that Freeman's appointment was a perfect reflection of who President Obama really is. Personnel is policy.
So who is Chas Freeman?
According to the Washington Pos, "Since 1997, he has presided over the Middle East Policy Council, a Washington-based nonprofit organization that is funded in part by Saudi money. In that role, Freeman has occasionally criticized the Israeli government's positions and U.S. support for those policies. In 2007, for example, he said, 'The brutal oppression of the Palestinians by the Israeli occupation shows no sign of ending,' adding, 'American identification with Israel has become total.'"
Another leftist liberal blaming the victim and revealing his anti-Semitism.
In addition to Freeman's connections to the Saudi government, a leading exporter of Islamofascist terrorism, he has business connections to the bin Laden family and their Saudi Binladen Group, a multibillion-dollar construction conglomerate founded by the father of Osama bin Laden. He served as cairman of Projects International Inc., and in that capacity, he told the Associated Press, he was still "discussing proposals with the Binladen Group—and that won't change."
Carmen bin Laden, a sister-in-law of Osama, told Der Spiegel that "bin Ladens never disowned Osama; in this family, a brother remains a brother, no matter what he has done." Yet Freeman still chose to do business with the bin Ladens.
As if this were not bad enough, Freeman justified the brutal Red Chinese atrocities at Tiannamen Square. He wrote in an email:
I find the dominant view in China about this very plausible, i.e. that the truly unforgivable mistake of the Chinese authorities was the failure to intervene on a timely basis to nip the demonstrations in the bud, rather than -- as would have been both wise and efficacious -- to intervene with force when all other measures had failed to restore domestic tranquility to Beijing and other major urban centers in China. In this optic, the Politburo's response to the mob scene at "Tian'anmen" stands as a monument to overly cautious behavior on the part of the leadership, not as an example of rash action.
I do not believe it is acceptable for any country to allow the heart of its national capital to be occupied by dissidents intent on disrupting the normal functions of government, however appealing to foreigners their propaganda may be. Such folk, whether they represent a veterans' "Bonus Army" or a "student uprising" on behalf of "the goddess of democracy" should expect to be displaced with despatch from the ground they occupy. I cannot conceive of any American government behaving with the ill-conceived restraint that the Zhao Ziyang administration did in China
Freeman's "ill-conceived restraint" consisted of sending tanks in to mass-murder the peaceful demonstrators. Troops indiscriminately fired AK-47s at the crowd. Many demonstrators were pulled out of buses and beaten with heavy sticks. Journalist Charlie Cole reported that tanks ran over numerous demonstrators, crushing them. Very restrained, don't you think? Chas Freeman does, and apparently, so does President Obama.
The Freeman nomination, now thankfully withdrawn, is of a piece with President Obama's associations with Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers. This is another Obama associate who will bend over backwards to justify the most brutal activities of terrorists and tyrants, provided that they are enemies of America.
That President Obama would nominate such a person as his chairman of the National Intelligence Council is very revealing. Show me who your friends are and I'll show you who you are.
posted by Tim at 3:04 PM
