Success is said to have a thousand fathers and Daniel Pipes is joining the crowd taking credit for the Freeman takedown. He sent out the following note to his email newsletter mailing list last night: Dear Reader: As many of…
Great analysis by Steve Walt of the Freeman affair, its chilling effect and the silver lining (Israel lobby was seen fleeing the scene of the crime in a Lexus). Great time-line and reporting of the foreign-policy establishment’s support for Freeman…
This is amazing. A nominee for a high intelligence position bows out of the job under fierce political attack and issues a blistering statement that the Israel lobby is endangering our national security by smearing anybody who disagrees with it…
Charles W. “Chas” Freeman Jr.’s statement: To all who supported me or gave me words of encouragement during the controversy of the past two weeks, you have my gratitude and respect. You will by now have seen the statement by…
Andrew Sullivan, as demoralized as we are here, says the MSM didn’t cover Freeman and this means that the Israel lobby has won and there will be no change in policy in I/P under shrewd timid Obama. “The fact that…
Felson writes: This leapt out at me in Ben Smith’s coverage of Freeman’s withdrawal: But Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), one of Freeman’s leading critics, said the appointee could have “withstood” the attacks on policy grounds, but ultimately was torpedoed by…
Wow. Look at alleged center-left Brookings’ page on the Middle East, and its “featured” experts. Writes a friend: Martin Indyk, a former lobbyist, now an unpaid lobbyist; Ken Pollack who writes books advocating wars of imperial aggression; Tamara Cofman Wittes,…
in Max Blumenthal’s sharp piece in the Daily Beast on the Freeman opposition. Blumenthal says that the campaign against Chas Freeman is motivated by alleged spy Steve Rosen’s opposition to the two-state solution, that the campaign had the quiet AIPAC…
We’re in IQ freefall. None of us can doubt that Jewish genius transformed the 20th century. Finance, science, psychiatry, media–do I really need to go through all that part? Now we are in IQ freefall, for two reasons related to…