Obama lights up another ..this time the head of National Intelligence hits the skids after blogs explode

An independent inspector general will look into the foreign financial ties of Chas W. Freeman Jr., the Obama administration's pick to serve as chairman of the group that prepares the U.S. intelligence community's most sensitive assessments, according to three congressional aides.

The director of national intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, last Thursday named Mr. Freeman, a veteran former diplomat, to the chairmanship of the National Intelligence Council, known inside the government as the NIC. In that job, Mr. Freeman will have access to some of America's most closely guarded secrets and be charged with overseeing the drafting of the consensus view of all 16 intelligence agencies.

His selection was praised by some who noted his articulateness and experience as U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia and a senior envoy to China and other nations. But it sparked concerns among some members of Congress from both parties, who asked the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's inspector general, Edward McGuire, to investigate Mr. Freeman's potential conflicts of interest.
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Among the areas likely to be scrutinized in the vetting process are Mr. Freeman's position on the international advisory board of the China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC). The Chinese government and other state-owned companies own a majority stake in the concern, which has invested in Sudan and other countries sometimes at odds with the United States, including Iran.

Mr. Freeman is also president of the nonprofit educational organization Middle East Policy Council (MEPC), which paid him $87,000 in 2006, and received at least $1 million from a Saudi prince. He also has chaired Projects International, a consulting firm that has worked with foreign companies and governments.

Get ready to hear the jews stopped this one because of dual loyalties, and Likud-ophilia

Maybe we should be happy it's not a (another) tax evasion in the upper echelons of the executive and/or the legislature, or state legistatures as well.

Can you imagine the chorus if Bush had named this sad line up of complete gavones? In fact he was praised for leaving in place, why... the head of the CIA, George Tenet, the appointee of Mr, Clinton, who missed, ignored, and bailed out on several > many shots at Al Qaeda. The he idiotically failed to fire him after 9/11 leaving him in place for the easy call on WMD in Iraq.

If anyone thinks for an instant we are not headed for LARGER debacles with these kinds of appointees, you better get your heads on straight.