{"id":5380,"date":"2009-03-09T18:48:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T02:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=5380"},"modified":"2009-03-09T18:48:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T02:48:21","slug":"nelson-report-says-freeman-foes-distorting-china-memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/nelson-report-says-freeman-foes-distorting-china-memo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Report Says Freeman Foes Distorting China Memo"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quite clear that a major battle<\/a> has erupted over the appointment of Chas Freeman<\/a> as chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), which, among other things, is charged with putting together the consensus judgments, called National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) on key issues of the 16 agencies that make up the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). Today, in what was described as upping the ante, the seven Republican members of the Senate Intelligence Committee expressed their \u00e2\u20ac\u0153surprise\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at the appointment in a letter<\/a> to the man who appointed Freeman, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Adm. Dennis Blair, and threatening to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153devote even more oversight scrutiny to the activities of the NIC under (Freeman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s) leadership.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (The wording \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and the fact that the seven didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mention the alleged conflict of interest regarding Freeman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ties to Saudi Arabia, but only his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153highly controversial statements about China and Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d suggested to me that they believe that Blair has no intention of seeking Freeman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s withdrawal, which is perhaps an overly hopeful interpretation on my part.)<\/p>\n

In any event, as readers of this blog know, I am a big fan of Chris Nelson, who puts out the highly regarded insider newsletter, The Nelson Report<\/em>. Well, Monday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s edition of the Report<\/em> reports that Freeman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s controversial statement about the repression of the pro-democracy movement in Beijing in 1989 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which was apparently leaked to Freeman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s critics from a subscriber to a private listserv \u00e2\u20ac\u201d has been taken completely out of context. Here is what Nelson wrote this evening:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Unscrupulous opponents have given sections of the memo to gullible commentators with the lie\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6no other word for it\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6that it is Freeman talking for himself, with his personal views and analysis of Chinese government actions in 1989.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest of Jim’s post and comment on his blog.<\/font><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quite clear that a major battle has erupted over the appointment of Chas Freeman as chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), which, among other things, is charged with putting together the consensus judgments, called National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) on key issues of the 16 agencies that make up the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5381,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380\/revisions\/5381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5380"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}