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March 07, 2009
Obama's Pick for Top Intel. Post Charles Freeman Violating Iran Sanctions
The nomination of Charles “Chas” Freeman to serve as the next chairman of the National Intelligence Council has created a new bout of controversy for the Obama administration regarding its personnel choices to serve in key positions.
"Charles Freeman peddled Saudi funded book to U.S. public schools that falsely claims Muslims inhabited North America long before Europeans
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Obama intel chief violating Iran sanctions?
Board member of Chinese government-owned company in deal with Tehran
By Aaron Klein
President Obama's nominee for a top intelligence post sits on the board of a major oil company owned by the Chinese government that is in the midst of a multibillion dollar deal with Iran which may violate U.S. sanctions, WND has learned.
The oil company is widely seen as conducting business deals meant to expand China's influence worldwide. One of its recent attempts to purchase a large U.S. oil firm drew bipartisan congressional opposition amid fears the deal would harm American national security interests.
Charles "Chas" Freeman, the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War, is slated to head the U.S. National Intelligence Council. The NIC is a crucial component of the U.S. intelligence apparatus, serving as the center for midterm and long-term strategic thinking within the American intelligence community. It provides intelligence briefs for Obama and key U.S. agencies and produces reports that help determine American policy on crucial issues, such as Iran's nuclear program.
Since 2004, Freeman has been on the international advisory board of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, or CNOOC.
Ma Bing, an analyst for CNOOC's investor relations department today confirmed to WND that Freeman is still on the board. He said Freeman's role is to "provide the (company) management with strategic advice on world events and macro issues that may impact our development."
In 2006, CNOOC, with Freeman on its advisory board, signed a memorandum of understanding with the state-owned National Iranian Oil Company to develop Iran's North Pars gas field in a contract with Tehran reportedly worth $16 billion. The deal was stalled for two years after the U.S. State and Treasury Departments vowed to scrutinize the transaction to see if it violates either international or U.S. sanctions against Iran.
In December, the Iranian oil company announced it finalized the development plan with CNOOC. The two companies are currently negotiating the price of the contract.
A group of 87 Chinese dissidents sent a letter to President Obama asking him to reconsider the appointment of Chas Freeman as head of the National Intelligence Council. Freeman's financial ties to the People's Republic of China
It was sent to :
" President Obama, Speaker of the House Hon. Nancy Pelosi House Minority Leader Hon. John Boehner Senate Majority Leader Hon. Harry Reid Senate Minority Leader Hon. Mitch McConnell "
Dear President Obama: We are writing to convey our intense dismay at your selection of Charles W. Freeman to be chair of the National Intelligence Council. No American in public life has been more hostile than Mr. Freeman toward the ideals of human rights and democracy in China.
Mr. Freeman has a longstanding record of defending China’s authoritarian regime. In his view, for example, China’s nationwide democracy movement in spring of 1989, which protested government corruption and embraced international norms of human rights, was only the “propaganda” of “dissidents.” That movement ended in the use of tanks and machine guns to massacre hundreds unarmed protesters in Beijing on June 4, 1989,” but Mr. Freeman wrote, as recently as three years ago, that “the Politburo's response to the mob scene at 'Tiananmen' stands as a monument to overly cautious behavior on the part of the leadership” and 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.”
The prospect of a person with values such as these guiding our nation’s intelligence activity is truly frightening. It is difficult to see how a person with such a strong ideological tilt toward the Chinese Communist Party will be able to provide you with unbiased assessments of the very dynamic interactions among various aggrieved segments of Chinese society and their authoritarian government. But following these trends will be one of the most important tasks of the intelligence community in the coming years.
The June Fourth massacre, which Mr. Freeman so badly misreads, is not just something that happened twenty years ago. It remains a powerful symbol for the ideals of human rights and democracy among large parts of the Chinese populace. It also, quite plainly, has remained powerful in the minds of the Chinese leaders, who for twenty years have banned any mention of the massacre from textbooks and the media in China, and who take great care to detain and “control” any citizen who might want to observe the June 4 anniversary or make “sensitive” statements. “Dissidents” were pre-emptively confined to their homes during the recent visit to Beijing of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
We share your hope, Mr. President, that the United States might regain its moral standing in the world and once again be viewed as a universal beacon for fairness and justice. Your appointment of Charles Freeman could not be more damaging to this hope. Please reconsider.
Intel. pick: Muslims were here first
Pushed Saudi-funded textbook that wildly fabricates history
Freeman served as president of the Middle East Policy Council, a Washington-based Saudi backed nonprofit that received tens of thousands of dollars per year from the bin Laden family and other Saudi donors.
In 2003, Freeman's council joined with California-based Arab World and Islamic Resources in selling to U.S. schools the "Arab World Studies Notebook," set to be a textbook on Arab issues and history.
A report from that year by the Text Book League, an online resource on some 200 educational items for middle-school and high-school educators, highlighted major historical fabrications found in Freeman's schoolbook including the claim Muslims inhabited the New World in pre-Columbian times and also spread throughout the Caribbean, Central America, South America and even Canada.
English explorers met "Iroquois and Algonquin (Native American) chiefs with names like Abdul-Rahim and Abdallah Ibn Malik," the schoolbook claimed, without providing any evidence.
In actuality, the first Muslim to enter the historical record in North America was Estevánico of Azamor, who came with the Spanish in 1539. Islam is not believed to have taken root in Canada until the mid-19th century.
The book goes on to present Jesus as an "important figure" in Islam and states as fact it is "well known, the Quran was revealed through the Prophet Muhammad."
The schoolbook "present(s) Muslim myths as 'history,' endorse(s) Muslim religious claims, and propagat(es) Islamic fundamentalism," stated the Text Book League report.
An investigative article by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in 2005 further exposed some of the anti-Israel claims in the book Freeman was peddling.
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Wild Thing's comment........
This bozo has more than a financial conflict of interest. When he sits on the board of a foreign owned company, especially when it is a company owned by the Chinese government, he has a national loyalty conflict of interest.
I do not want this puke anywhere near national security information. Also Freeman is not just Anti-Israel, his views go way beyond the range of normal.
Nine members of the House of Representatives, including Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), are asking for an investigation into the financial ties of Barack Obama's National Intelligence Council chairman Chas Freeman.
Idiots elected Obama, a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder and he is destroying our country.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at March 7, 2009 06:44 AM
Comments
"Idiots elected Obama, a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder and he is destroying our country."
That being said he is a perfect fit for the other appointments made by B. Hussein. It's a good thing Putin is currently PM of Russia or B. Hussein might appoint him to head his Civilian Youth Corp. The ObamaJugend.
Posted by: Bob A at March 7, 2009 08:24 AM
It's only been a month and a few days and this poseur has done more damage to this country than the last 5 presidents together. His cabinet is made up of people that have no love for this country, only power. The Israelis are going WTF? Russia is giggling. The Middle East is gleeful and America has way too many kool-aid drinkers.
This all reminds me of those alien invasion shows from the 80's, like "V". Not a good thought.
Posted by: yankeemom at March 7, 2009 08:54 AM
The agents in the intel field are going to love Freeman(sarc). A mole at the very top. Carter and his appointments practically destroyed the CIA as they promoted Human Rights as the key to world peace. The CIA has still not recovered from Carter's bungling.
Now, the entire American intelligence apparatus is going to be compromised. America is in big trouble.
Posted by: TomR at March 7, 2009 12:57 PM
Shakes head!!!
Posted by: Jack at March 7, 2009 02:36 PM
Bob A., LOL good one! Yes he is perfect for his appointments. Loved how you put that.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 7, 2009 07:54 PM
Yankeemom, oh my gosh yes it is like "V".
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 7, 2009 07:57 PM
Tom, oh man, from what you said and then add on what Obama and his guy will do there will never be a way to make it right. waaaaaaa
Thanks for the information Tom.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 7, 2009 07:59 PM
Jack, me too.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 7, 2009 08:01 PM
