Exit, spraying venom
March 11, 2009, by Malanie Phillips (hat tip to Gateway Pundit)

Chas W Freeman has now withdrawn from his appointment as chairman of the US National Intelligence Council.
I have concluded that the barrage of libelous distortions of my record would not cease upon my entry into office. The effort to smear me and to destroy my credibility would instead continue. 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.

Now to whom could he possibly have been referring? The Arab and Muslim world has no doubt, and is telling itself that Freeman was forced out by the World Jewish Conspiracy, a claim that is being echoed among the venomous WJC theorists of the west. Freeman went on to rage against the ‘Israel lobby’....

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