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Charles Freeman Withdraws Name for Head of NIC
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by tikun | March 10, 2009 at 02:32 pm
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Charles Freeman, outspoken President of the MEPC Arab lobby, withdrew from consideration as head of the National Intelligence Council after mounting pressure from US congresmen and Senators. This is the terse Reuters announcement:
U.S. choice for top intelligence analyst withdraws
Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:56pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The candidate for a top U.S. intelligence post withdrew from the running on Tuesday after angering some in Congress with remarks on Israeli "oppression" of Palestinians, and about China. The office of Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said in a statement that Charles Freeman, who had been picked to head the National Intelligence Council, had asked not to proceed.
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at 09:08 on March 11th, 2009
MEPC is not an Arab lobby, check it out, and the (US) Israeli Lobby mounted an unprecedented attack on him since he dared to criticze Israel in the past....
Once again the US is the biggest asset of Israel
at 11:34 on March 11th, 2009
He went down because of his financial connections with China and Saudi Arabia. period.