Obama's DNI Urged to Back Freeman

Obama's DNI Urged to Back Freeman

By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
March 10, 2009


Editor’s Note: Former U.S. Ambassador Chas Freeman has been tapped to head the National Intelligence Council, which oversees the production of National Intelligence Estimates on threats facing the United States.

But his reputation as a frank-speaking “realist” has drawn fire from neoconservatives who have organized a powerful lobbying campaign to derail his selection. In the following letter to Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair – dated March 8 – the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity urge Blair to resist the pressure:
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Admiral Dennis Blair
Director of National Intelligence
Washington, DC

Dear Director Blair:

We write to give strong endorsement to your choice of Chas Freeman for Chair of the National Intelligence Council.

We, the undersigned, worked at senior levels of key intelligence agencies. Our aggregate service represents 130 years and includes close familiarity with virtually all the key tasks over which Freeman is to have purview.

Your naming of Freeman reflects awareness that National Intelligence Estimates and the President’s Daily Brief are of such critical importance that the NIC requires a leader of unquestioned integrity and competence. The experience of the several years before Tom Fingar took the reins at the NIC constitutes abundant proof of this.


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who is under indictment for spying against the US!!