per published reports. The announcement came from Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence. Stating that Freeman asked that his name be removed.
An important sign: Jake Tapper offers this exchange between Senator Joe Lieberman (D-from you know where) and Dennis Blair, director of National Intelligence, on the appointment of Chas Freeman, to be head of Nat’l Intelligence Council. Blair says Freeman has…
In this fall 2007 column, Roger Cohen was somewhat pugilistic toward the American left, offering apologies for liberal Iraq-interventionists and even the neocons. And then? Gaza.
Moved by Roger Cohen’s great piece in the Times today to reflect on the horrors of Gaza, Andrew Sullivan has now been utterly converted to the theory of the corruption of our discourse by the Israel lobby. He says, and…
Roger Cohen has a brilliant column in today’s Times in which he repeats his epiphany of the last 2 months: his utter shame over Gaza. Then he moves to pure realism: about Israel’s threat to its neighbors and the importance…
Chas Freeman’s appointment is important in sociological terms. Freeman is the latest heir to a realist tradition in foreign policy that–while Jews have been adherents of it–has a gentile cast because it is associated with opposition to the recognition of…
Andrew Sullivan has posted again in favor of Chas Freeman, with a great headline, “Another Anti-Semite for Freeman,” linking a Joe Klein column in favor of Freeman. This is big. Tonight the tom-toms in the jungle are muted. Marty Peretz,…
Here’s Charles Freeman, a foreign policy guy himself, defending his father Chas Freeman, Obama’s pick to head the National Intelligence Council, from the attacks of the Israel-firsters, in a guest appearance at the Washington Note. Notable for a few points:…
A good rock has been turned over in the Chas Freeman controversy. On Foreign Policy’s website, one of Freeman’s defenders, Stephen Walt, cracked about one of Freeman’s pursuers, Jeffrey Goldberg, that his idea of public service was moving to Israel…