Maybe Those Under Indictment for Espionage Shouldn’t Talk About Other People’s Commitments to Israel

Steve Rosen, who’s trying to derail Ambassador Chas Freeman’s chairmanship of the National Intelligence Council, says this about M.J. Rosenberg from the Israel Policy Forum, who’s defended Freeman:

He urges the Obama administration to “ignore Freeman’s rightwing critics. They are the same people who will oppose your efforts

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National Intelligence Council Pick May Be In Real Trouble

I haven’t written anything about Chas Freeman, the former ambassador to Saudi Arabia whom Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair tapped to head the National Intelligence Council, the long-term-intelligence-analysis shop that also supervises the writing of National Intelligence Estimates. Why? Primarily because there’s a lot of bad-faith criticism More…