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Charles W. Freeman, Jr.

United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia

In office

15 June 1989 13 August 1992

President George H. W. Bush

Preceded by Walter Leon Cutler

Succeeded by Ray Mabus

(after interim Charg d'Affaires - see

ambassador list)

Personal details

Born 1943

Profession diplomat

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Charles W. ("Chas") Freeman, Jr.,(born 1943) is an

American diplomat, author, and writer. He served in the

United States Foreign Service, the State and Defense

Departments in many different capacities over the course of

thirty years,[1]with the Washington Report on Middle East

Affairscalling his career "remarkably varied". He most

notably worked as the main interpreter for Richard Nixon in

his 1972 China visit and as the United States Ambassador to

Saudi Arabia from 1989 to 1992, where he dealt with issues

related to the Persian Gulf War.[2]He is a past president of

the Middle East Policy Council, co-chair of the U.S. China

Policy Foundation[3]and a Lifetime Director of the Atlantic

Council.[4]In February 2009, unnamed sources leaked to the

news media, initially to The Politico, that Freeman wasDirector of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair's choice to

chair the National Intelligence Council in the Barack Obama

administration.[1]After several weeks of criticisms from

prominent supporters of Israeli policy, he withdrew his name

from consideration and charged that he had been the victim

of a concerted campaign by what he called the Israel

lobby.[5]

1 Life and work

2 National Intelligence Council appointment

controversy

3 Views on foreign policy issues

3.1 September 11 attacks

3.2 Israel

3.3 Saudi Arabia3.4 China

4 Publications

5 References

6 External links

es W. Freeman, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Fre

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Freeman worked as Richard

Nixon's main Chinese-English

interpreter when the President met

with Mao Zedong.

Freeman was born in Washington, DC while his father, who was from

Rhode Island, was serving in the United States Navy. He lived and was

educated in the Bahamas where his father was in business, returning to the

United States at age 13. After studying at Yale University under a

scholarship, he studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico

and entered Harvard Law School.[2]

After law school, he joined the United States Foreign Service in 1965,

working first in India and Taiwan before being assigned to the State

Department's China desk. There he was assigned as the principal American

interpreter during United States President Richard Nixon's 1972 first visit to

the People's Republic of China. He later became the State Department

Deputy Director for Republic of China (Taiwan) affairs.[2]The State

Department also sent Freeman back to Harvard during this time, where he

completed his J.D. The legal research he did there became "the intellectual basis for the Taiwan Relations Act."[6]

After various positions within the State Department he was given overseas assignments as deputy chief of

mission in Beijing, China and then Bangkok, Thailand. In 1986, he was appointed as principal deputy assistantsecretary of state for African affairs in 1986, a position in which he played a key role in the negotiation of

Cuban troop withdrawal from Angola and the independence of Namibia.[7]During these assignments he

attained a working knowledge of several languages. He became United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia in

November 1989, serving before and after Operation Desert Storm, until August 1992.[2]

From 1992 to 1993 he was a Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies. From 1993 to

1994 he was Assistant Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs. From 1994 to 1995 he was

Distinguished Fellow, United States Institute of Peace. In 1995 he became Chairman of the Board of Projects

International, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based business development firm arranging international joint ventures.

For four years, from 2004, he served on the international advisory board of the China National Offshore OilCorporation. The panel met yearly to advise the corporate board of the implications of global developments.

(Freeman was neither consulted nor involved in issues like the company's dealing with Iran or its attempt to buy

the U.S. oil company Unocal.)[8]He served as a member of the board of several other corporate and non-profit

advisory boards, including diplomatic institutes. He was the editor of the Encyclopdia Britannica's entry on

"Diplomacy."[9]

In his thirty year diplomatic career, Freeman received two Distinguished Public Service Awards, three

Presidential Meritorious Service Awards, two Distinguished Honor Awards, the CIA Medallion, a Defense

Meritorious Service Award, and four Superior Honor Awards.[10]He speaks fluent Chinese, French, Spanish

and Arabic.[3]

In 1997, Ambassador Freeman succeeded George McGovern to become the president of the Middle East Policy

Council[11](formerly known as the American Arab Affairs Council) which "strives to ensure that a full range of

U.S. interests and views are considered by policy makers."[12]

In the fall of 2006, the Council was the first American outlet to publish (a slightly revised version of) University

of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer and Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University Professor

Stephen Walt's working paper The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.[13]According to an opinion piece in

the Wall Street Journal,Freeman endorsed the paper's thesis, and he said of Middle East Policy Council's stance


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Dennis Blair named Freeman as

chair of the National Intelligence

Council

that "No one else in the United States has dared to publish this article, given the political penalties that the

Lobby imposes on those who criticize it."[1]

In his retirement, Freeman drew on his experience in the Middle East and China to author two books on

contemporary U.S. foreign policy. One,Americas Misadventures in the Middle East(Just World Books 2010),

centers on Bushs invasion of Iraq, Americas failure to continue to lead in the same way it did in the

post-WWII years, and issues in Saudi Arabia.[14]The other,Interesting Times: China, America, and the Shifting

Balance of Prestige(Just World Books 2013), is his analysis of the U.S.-Chinese relationship from 1969-2012and his predictions about where this relationship is headed.[15]

On February 26, 2009 the Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair

named Freeman as chair of the National Intelligence Council,[16]which

culls intelligence from sixteen US agencies and compiles them into

National Intelligence Estimates. Blair cited his "diverse background in

defense, diplomacy and intelligence."[17]

News of Freeman's nomination met with criticism from pro-Israel

commentators of his views about Israel and Arab nations and his ties to

Saudi Arabia, with Steve J. Rosen, a former top official with the American

Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conducting the "opening salvo"

according to professor John Mearsheimer.[1][18][19][20][21]The Zionist

Organization of America called for rescinding "the reported

appointment."[22]U.S. Representative Steve Israel wrote to the Inspector

General of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence calling for an

investigation of Freeman's "relationship with the Saudi government" given

his "prejudicial public statements" against the state of Israel.[23]All sevenRepublican members of the United States Senate Select Committee on

Intelligence signed a letter raising "concerns about Mr. Freeman's lack of experience and uncertainty about his

objectivity."[8][24]87 Chinese dissidents wrote a letter to President Obama asking him to reconsider the

appointment.[25]House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was said to be "incensed" by Freeman's alleged views of the

Tiananmen Square massacre, reportedly urged President Obama against the selection.[26]Freeman explained

that the remarks were taken out of context and represented "his assessment of how Chinese leaders had seen

things."[8]

Freeman then issued a full statement on his reasons for withdrawal, stating, "I do not believe the National

Intelligence Council could function effectively while its chair was under constant attack by unscrupulous people

with a passionate attachment to the views of a political faction in a foreign country;" he identified the country as

Israel. He questioned whether the "outrageous agitation" following the leak of his pending appointment meant

that the Obama administration would be able to make independent decisions "about the Middle East and related

issues." He cited especially interference by Israel supporters, writing:

"The libels on me and their easily traceable email trails show conclusively that there is a

powerful lobby determined to prevent any view other than its own from being aired. The

tactics of the Israel lobby plumb the depths of dishonour and indecency and include character


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assassination, selective misquotation, the wilful distortion of the record, the fabrication of

falsehoods, and an utter disregard for the truth."... "The aim of this lobby is control of the

policy process through the exercise of a veto over the appointment of people who dispute the

wisdom of its views, the substitution of political correctness for analysis, and the exclusion

of any and all options for decision by Americans and our government other than those that it

favours."

Chas W. Freeman[27][28]

After his withdrawal Freeman gave an interview to Robert Dreyfuss in The Nationsaying he regretted he did

not identify his attackers as right-wing Likud in Israel and its fanatic supporters here, what he called the

(Avigdor) Lieberman lobby. He also said that if President Obama had stepped in earlier he might have

deflected attacks by Democrats, but that he and the National Intelligence Council still would have been

subjected to a slanderous attack, making it impossible for him to do the job. He said these attacks were as the

Chinese say, killing a chicken to scare the monkeys, to dissuade other critics of Israel from accepting

government positions, but he had received messages from a number of Jews who also disagreed with Israels

policies.[29]

In an interview with Fareed Zakaria on CNN[30]he repeated many of the same points, adding a defense of past

comments about the September 11 attacks, saying US past actions had catalyzed -- perhaps not caused, but

catalyzed -- a radicalization of Arab and Muslim politics that facilitates the activities of terrorists with global

reach. He stated he was deeply insulted by those charging antisemitism and that he had a great respect for

Judaism and its adherents. He also said Saudi Arabia has definitely been successfully vilified in our politics,

despite efforts by the current Saudi king to reform his country and promote peace with Israel. He ended by

expressing optimism about President Obama saying he has a strategic mind and that what America needs is a

strategic review of the policies that have brought us to this sorry pass in which we now find ourselves -- not

just in the Middle East, but in many other places, as well.[31][32]Freeman was also interviewed by Riz

Khan.[33]

In an interview quoted in The New York Times, Freeman said Israel is driving itself toward a cliff, and it is

irresponsible not to question Israeli policy and to decide what is best for the American people. In the same

article Mark Mazzetti and Helene Cooper substantiate Freeman's accusations, writing: "The lobbying campaign

against Mr. Freeman included telephone calls to the White House from prominent lawmakers, including Senator

Charles E. Schumer, the New York Democrat. It appears to have been kicked off three weeks ago in a blog post

by Steve J. Rosen, a former top official of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobbying

group."[5]While some members of Congress denied that the Israel lobby played a significant role,[34][35]The

Forwardsaid "Many of the lawmakers demanding an investigation into Freemans qualifications for the

intelligence post are known as strong supporters of Israel."

[36]

On March 11, The Washington Postprinted two opposing editorials on the subject. An unattributed editorial

opinion charged Freeman and those with similar opinions were "conspiracy theorists" issuing "crackpot

tirades."[37]The same day the Postalso published a piece by regular columnist David Broder, entitled "The

Country's Loss", stating "The Obama administration has just suffered an embarrassing defeat at the hands of the

lobbyists [that] the president vowed to keep in their place, and their friends on Capitol Hill." [38]Meanwhile, in

the same edition of The Washington Post, a front page article provided details of various Jewish organizations'

lobbying efforts to derail Freeman's appointment.[39]


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The Associated Press has characterized Freeman as "outspoken" on various issues including Israel, Iraq, and the

war on terror.[5][40]

September 11 attacks

Freeman commented at a Washington Institute for Near East Policy meeting in 2002 that, "And what of

Americas lack of introspection about September 11? Instead of asking what might have caused the attack, or

questioning the propriety of the national response to it, there is an ugly mood of chauvinism. Before Americans

call on others to examine themselves, we should examine ourselves."[41]In October 2005, Freeman told another

Washington conference: "On the question of U.S. strikes on targets in Iran or elsewhere, I simply want to

register what I think is an obvious point; namely that what 9/11 showed is that if we bomb people, they bomb

back."[42]

Commenting in Abu Dhabi on the death of Osama Bin Ladin in 2011, [43]Freeman remarked that: "By any

standard of righteousness, Osama bin Laden deserved to die. His life dishonored Islam. His death in Abbottabad

dishonored no one but himself. He was condemned by his own actions, which violated the moral principles ofevery religion. He personally incarnated the exception to the rule against the killing of human beings that is

recounted in the Holy Qur'an. It recalls (5:32) that God: 'decreed for the Children of Israel that to kill any person

who has not committed murder or horrendous crimes is like murdering all of humankind.'

"Osama was that very murderer who directed the commission of horrendous crimes. He leaves behind him

many monuments to the evil in his heart. He does not deserve them, but these monuments are both numerous

and large. It will take a long time to pull them down, but this must now be done.

"Osama expected to die by violence, as he did. Sadly, he probably died a satisfied man. In addition to alienating

Muslims and the West from each other, as was his aim, he achieved so many other transformations of the order

he sought to overthrow. Everyone who walks shoeless through a metal detector in an airport pays grudging

tribute to him. His legacies include hatred and suspicion that have erected barriers to travel to and within the

West and that impede the sort of dialogue you in this gathering are about to begin. He catalyzed two wars. He

bears responsibility for the death of thousands in the West and hundreds of thousands in this region. The

unfunded financial burden of the conflicts he ignited has come close to bankrupting the United States.

Indirectly, it is upending the international monetary system. It has produced recession in the West. Osama will

have been pleased.

"The mass murders Osama contrived inflamed passions that spurred American political leaders to set aside the

constraints of the United States constitution and laws. There has been serious erosion in American civil liberties

amidst popular disdain for the rule of law both at home and abroad. This is what paved the way for the horrors

of Abu Ghraib, 'extraordinary rendition,' and 'enhanced interrogation techniques' otherwise known as 'cruel

and unusual punishment,' 'kidnapping,' and 'torture.'

Israel

In a 2005 speech to a conference of the The National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations Freeman stated, "As long

as the United States continues unconditionally to provide the subsidies and political protection that make the

Israeli occupation and the high-handed and self-defeating policies it engenders possible, there is little, if any,

reason to hope that anything resembling the former peace process can be resurrected. Israeli occupation and


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settlement of Arab lands is inherently violent."[44]He explained that he had spoken out because he believed

"US-Arab relations matter greatly to my country and because, unlike many in Washington, I do not believe in

diplomacy-free foreign policy and have a healthy regard for what is now derided as reality-based analysis.[45]

In a 2006 speech to the annual US-Arab Policymakers Conference, Freeman said that Americans allowing Israe

to call the shots in the Middle East had revealed how frightened Israelis now are of their Arab neighbors

and that the results of the experiment were that[46]left to its own devices, the Israeli establishment will make

decisions that harm Israelis, threaten all associated with them, and enrage those who are not.[5]

In a 2007 speech to the Pacific Council on International Policy Freeman said that "Al Qaeda has played us with

the finesse of a matador exhausting a great bull by guiding it into unproductive lunges." He cited the 2003

invasion of Iraq which "transformed an intervention in Afghanistan most Muslims had supported into what

looks to them like a wider war against Islam." He held that the US had "embraced Israels enemies as our own"

and that Arabs had "responded by equating Americans with Israelis as their enemies." Charging the US now

backed Israels "efforts to pacify its captive and increasingly ghettoized Arab populations" and to "seize ever

more Arab land for its colonists."[47][48]

In numerous places in his 2010 bookAmerica's Misadventures in the Middle East, Freeman gives evidence of

his support for the wellbeing of the State of Israel. (For example, on p. 121, at a point that republishes views he

first expressed in October 2009, he writes, "A just and durable peace in the Holy Land that secures the State of

Israel should be an end in itself for the United States.")

In his remarks before the New America Foundation on January 26, 2011, Ambassador Freeman argued that the

"United States essentially has disqualified itself as a mediator" of the Israel/Palestine peace process. He argued

that the US cannot "play the role of mediator because of the political hammerlock that the right wing in Israel

through its supporters [in the US] exercises in our politics."[49] Freeman then went on to argue that US vetoes of

United Nations Resolutions condemning Israeli settlements in Occupied Territory undermine the role of

international law.[49][50]

In remarks to the Palestine Center on May 4, 2011, Freeman stated that "the cruelties of Israelis to their Arab

captives and neighbors, especially in the ongoing siege of Gaza and repeated attacks on the people of Lebanon,

have cost the Jewish state much of the global sympathy that the Holocaust previously conferred on it. The racist

tyranny of Jewish settlers over West Bank Arabs and the progressive emergence of a version of apartheid in

Israel itself are deeply troubling to a growing number of people abroad.... Ironically, Israel conceived as a

refuge and guarantee against European anti-Semitism has become the sole conceivable stimulus to its revival

and globalization.... Israel is vigorously engaged in the collective punishment and systematic ethnic cleansing of

its captive Arab populations. It rails against terrorism while carrying out policies explicitly described as

intended to terrorize the peoples of the territories it is attacking or into which it is illegally expanding." [51]

About Operation Pillar of Defense, launched by IDF against Gaza, on November 14, 2012 (two months before

Israeli legislative election, 2013), Freeman said: "Its very popular in Israel to kill lots of Palestinians in Gaza.

And Hamas is seen as a monster, and so a war against Hamas it wins votes." [52]

Saudi Arabia

In 1991, while he was US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Freeman gave an interview listing ways that Saudi

Arabia had been helpful to the US. It contributed $13.5 billion to the 1991 Gulf War effort and provided fuel,

water, accommodations and transport for US forces on Saudi soil. Immediately after the war it rapidly increased


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Archived from the original (http://www.washington-

report.org/backissues/0491/9104057.htm) on

September 27, 2007. Retrieved August 2, 2009.

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(http://www.theglobalist.com

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Globalist

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/people/board), Atlantic Council, accessed January

29, 2013.

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Stance Was Undoing of Nominee for Intelligence Post

(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/washington

/12lobby.html?hp), New York Times, March 11,

2009.

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^Tan, Qingshan, "The Making of U.S. China Policy:

From Normalization to the Post-Cold War Era,"

Boulder, 1992, pp. 40-42, 44, 54(n74-78)

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Accords," Foreign Affairs Vol 68, No. 3, 1989

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Intelligence Pick's Ties

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/article/2009/03/09/AR2009030902724_pf.html),

Washington Post, March 10, 2009; A05.

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2006). "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy"

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/j.1475-4967.2006.00260.x?cookie%20Set=1).

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america-and-the-shifting-balance-of-prestige/

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^Ben Smith, Freeman's In (http://www.politico.com

/blogs/bensmith/0209/Freemans_in.html?showall),

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16.

^Memorandum from the Office of the Director of

National Intelligence (http://www.politico.com/static

/PPM104_090226_nic.html), February 26, 2009.

17.

^http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n06/mear01_.html John

Mearsheimer The Lobby Falters, London Review of

Books, 26 March 2009

18.

^Steve J. Rosen, Alarming appointment at the CIA

(http://www.meforum.org/blog/obama-mideast-

monitor/2009/02/alarming-appointment-at-the-cia.html), Middle East Forum, February 19, 2009.

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^Jeffrey Goldberg, Saudi Advocate to Run the

National Intelligence Council?

(http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives

/2009/02/saudi_advocate_to_run_the_nati.php), The

Atlantic, February 23, 2009.

20.

^Michael Goldfarb in The Realist Chas Freeman

(http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP

/2009/02/the_realist_chas_freeman.asp), Weekly

Standard, February 24, 2009, includes text of email.

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rescinded (http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2009/02

/25/1003295/zoa-wants-freeman-appointment-

rescinded), Jewish Telegraphic Agency, February 25,

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investigation (UPDATED) (http://blogs.jta.org

/politics/article/2009/02/28/1003352/rep-calls-

for-freeman-investigation), Jewish Telegraphic

Agency, February 28, 2009.

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(http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/05

/foreign-ties-of-nominee-queried/)",Washington

Times, March 5, 2009.

24.


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Êli Lake, Rights advocates oppose Freeman

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/rights-advocates-attack-freeman-pick/),Washington

Times, March 8, 2009.

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Freeman (http://online.wsj.com/article

/SB123672847973688515.html), Wall Street Journal,

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/11/washington/11intel.html),The New York Times

March 10, 2009.

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/417420?rel=hp_picks), The Nation, March 13, 2009.

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/TRANSCRIPTS/0903/15/fzgps.01.html), Fareed

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/watch?v=A_b13cVqiB0)[6]

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YPdYWoVIqs&

feature=channel)[7] (http://www.youtube.com

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(http://www.newsweek.com/id/188725)Newsweek.

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^Bolton, Alexander. "Lawmakers deny Freeman's

Israel lobby charges." (http://thehill.com/leading-

the-news/lawmakers-deny-freemans-charges-on-pro-israel-lobby-2009-03-12.html) TheHill.com. 12

March 2009. 12 March 2009.

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Freeman Points Finger at Israel Lobby

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^"Charles Freeman's Failed Nomination as an

Obama Aide." (http://www.washingtonpost.com

/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/11/AR2009031103384.html) Washington Post. 12

March 2009. 12 March 2009.

37.

^David Broder, The Country's Loss

(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content

/article/2009/03/11/AR2009031103213.html).

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^Pincus, Walter (March 12, 2009). "Influence of

Israel Lobby Debated as Intelligence Pick Casts

Blame for Pullout" (http://www.washingtonpost.com

/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03

/11/AR2009031104308.html).The Washington Post.

39.

^"Outspoken former US ambassador quits analyst

post (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/10

/america/NA-US-Intel-Official-Saudi.php)" March

10, 2009.

40.

^Jennifer Rubin, Re: The Jewish Left Celebrates

(http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs

/index.php/rubin/56712), Commentary Magazine,

February 27, 2009.

41.

^"A Shia Crescent: What Fallout for the U.S.?

(http://www.mepc.org/forums_chcs/41.asp)", Middle

East Policy Council, October 14, 2005.

42.

^[8] (http://mepc.org/articles-commentary/speeches

/after-abbottabad-islam-and-west)

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^Joshua Keating, Obama's NIC pick raises eyebrows

(http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/02

/24/obamas_nic_pick_raises_eyebrows), Foreign

Policy, February 24, 2009.

44.

^Chas W. Freeman, Jr., Remarks to the 14th Annual

US-Arab Policymakers Conference, The National

Council on US-Arab Relations (http://www.mepc.org/whats/conf.remarks.pdf), September 12, 2005 in

Washington, DC.

45.

^Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr., USFS (Ret.),

The GCC and the Management of Policy

Consequences (http://www.arabialink.com/resources

/special-sections/auspc/session-8-freeman.html),

Remarks to the 15th Annual US-Arab Policymakers

Conference, October 31, 2006

46.

^Quoted from October 2007 speech to the PacificCouncil on International Policy by Jim Lobe in

Amazing Appointment Chas Freeman as NIC

Chairman (http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2009/02/20

/amazing-appointment-%E2%80%94-chas-freeman-

as-nic-chairman/), Antiwar.com, February 20, 2009.

47.

^Chas W. Freeman, Jr., Text of speech "Diplomacy

in the Age of Terror" (http://www.mepc.org/whats

/100407.asp), Remarks to the Pacific Council on

International Policy at the American Academy of

Diplomacy, October 4, 2007, Los Angeles, California.

48.

^ abChas W. Freeman, Jr., Remarks from the event

"America's Continuing Misadventures in the Middle

East" (http://justworldbooks.com/media-freeman-

u-s-not-qualified), Remarks to the New America

Foundation January 26, 2011, Washington, DC.

49.

^The Big Lie: That Israel Is a Strategic Asset For the

United States (http://www.wrmea.com/component/content/article/358/10090-what-they-said-the-big-lie

that-israel-is-a-strategic-asset-for-the-united-

states.html). By Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr..

The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs,

Sept/Oct 2010, Pages 14-15.

50.

^Chas W. Freeman, Jr., Hisham B. Sharabi Memorial

Lecture (http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display

/ContentDetails/i/29130/pid/897) May 4, 2011,

Washington, DC.

51.

^'Killing Palestinians is popular in Israel around

election time' (http://rt.com/news/killing-palestinians-

freeman-diplomat-617/). RT, 9 December, 2012.

52.

^[9] (http://mepc.org/articles-commentary/speeches

/saudi-arabias-foreign-and-domestic-dilemmas)

53.

^Chas W. Freeman, China in the Times to Come

(http://www.theglobalist.com

/storyid.aspx?StoryId=6179), The Globalist, May 21,

2007.

54.

NIC official website (http://www.dni.gov/nic/NIC_home.html)

SourceWatch Article (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_W._Freeman%2C_Jr.)

His latest book "America's Misadventures in the Middle East" (http://www.justworldbooks.com/books

/8-america%2527s-misadventures-in-the-middle-east)

Biography from the Middle East Policy Council (http://www.mepc.org/about/freeman.asp)

Background information from Washington-Report.org (http://www.washington-report.org/backissues

/0491/9104057.htm)

His 2008 speech the 'National War College Alumni Association' on American-China Relations for the

21st century (http://www.academyofdiplomacy.org/publications/article_archive

/Why%20Not%20Try%20Diplomacy.pdf)

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