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National Security: Imagine one of China's and Saudi Arabia's
mouthpieces in America writing intelligence reports for the White
House. Meet Chas Freeman, who will soon fill all three roles.

National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair has named Freeman to head
his council of advisers, an influential post that, regrettably, does
not require Senate confirmation.

As National Intelligence Council chairman, Freeman will serve as a key
intelligence adviser to President Obama and will prepare his daily
briefings and the all-important National Intelligence Estimate on
foreign threats.

The job demands an uncompromising objectivity that Freeman can't
possibly deliver, given his conflicts of interest involving two
nations potentially hostile to the U.S.

Freeman for years has showed an almost slavish zeal in defending
Riyadh and Beijing from well-deserved criticism. This has undermined
Israel and Taiwan, both key American allies.

A former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Freeman heads the Saudi-funded
Middle East Policy Council, an influential organ for the kingdom. In
that role, he has missed few chances to bash Israel.

In 2007, he said the chief reason America was a terror target was its
tacit support for "the brutal oppression of the Palestinians by an
Israeli occupation that is about to mark its 40th anniversary." In
another speech that year, he scolded the U.S. for backing "Israel's
efforts to pacify its captive and increasingly ghettoized Arab
populations."

His position on Afghanistan? Let the Taliban run it again, a burning
desire of his Saudi patrons, who originally funded and recognized the
fundamentalist Taliban regime.

Freeman does business with the bin Laden family in Saudi Arabia, and
in the weeks after 9/11 he didn't even consider halting his dealings
with them. Through his firm, Projects International Inc., he continued
discussing proposals with the bin Ladens, who also contribute heavily
to the Middle East Policy Council.

Freeman also co-chairs the U.S. China Policy Foundation, part of the
pro-China lobby. His son works for the China Alliance, which advises
clients on China trade.

The elder Freeman, who once worked at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing,
apologized for the communist regime's bloody crackdown on young
Tiananmen demonstrators. If anything, it was "overly cautious," he
said, ignoring how the Beijing butchers turned the pro-democracy
students into human paste with their tanks.

"I do not believe it is acceptable for any country to allow the heart
of its capital to be occupied by dissidents intent on disrupting the
normal functions of government," he added.

Never mind if "normal" means communist police state.

Freeman also would let Beijing annex democratic Taiwan. "My own view
is that reunification would be very beneficial for all concerned," he
told China's official state organ, the People's Daily. "It would
remove the only potential cause of conflict between the U.S. and
China."

That's his new boss's attitude, too. Blair once called Taiwan the
"turd in the punch bowl" of U.S.-China relations.

"China's proposal for reunification would leave Taiwan's armed forces
intact and continue to make them, rather than the People's Liberation
Army, primarily responsible for Taiwan's defense," Freeman said. "The
PLA would not garrison Taiwan.

"As I understand it," he added, "the Chinese proposal would allow
Taiwan to continue to choose its own leaders through elections, and
would not assign any government personnel to the island from the
mainland. Taiwan's newly democratized political system would not be
affected by reunification."

The Politburo could not have said it better. Truth is, the PLA has a
stated goal of military and political hegemony in Asia. It's called
the "Island Chain Strategy." Perhaps Freeman should read it.

Both Freeman and Blair want to return to the Clinton administration's
Chinese "engagement" policy. Freeman served as Clinton's assistant
secretary of defense for international security affairs before leaving
to lobby for China.

It's no coincidence that a PLA general used him to deliver a thinly
veiled threat to the White House over Taiwan, warning that the U.S.
risks a Chinese nuclear strike if it intervenes in a conflict between
China and Taiwan.

Freeman also apologized for Beijing's clumsy influence-buying during
the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign, arguing that it was simply trying to
compete with the Taiwan lobby.

Blair says the country is fortunate to have Freeman contributing his
"remarkable skills toward further strengthening the intelligence
community's analytical process."

We're just not sure how pandering to foreign dictators is a worthy
analytical skill.

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Default (OT) : Chas Freeman - A Bad {Tainted} Man for the Wrong Job - AnotherObama Oops !

Chas. W. Freeman, Jr.
President of the Middle East Policy Council
http://www.mepc.org/about/freeman.asp
another re-cycled Clintonista© in the Obama
Administration now that's 'change'.
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