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Charles "Chas" W. Freeman Jr is an American retired diplomat and writer.
Charles W. ("Chas") Freeman, Jr. (født 1943) var chefoversætter under Nixons besøg i Kina i 1972 og de De Forenede Staters ambassadør i Saudiarabien fra.
Not yet two months into his presidency, Barack Obama designated Chas Freeman as chair of the National Intelligence Council.

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Fareed Zakaria GPS

Interview With Charles Freeman; Examination of U.S. Support for Israel

Aired March 15, 2009 - 13:00 ET

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FAREED ZAKARIA, HOST, GLOBAL PUBLIC SQUARE: This is GPS, the GLOBAL PUBLIC SQUARE. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. I'm Fareed Zakaria.

This week, a man named Charles Freeman, a man with a long and distinguished career in the U.S. Foreign Service, withdrew his name from consideration to be the chairman of the National Intelligence Council, a key intelligence job. In doing so, he blamed -- and I quote here -- "the Israeli lobby," for his decision to pull his own nomination.

He accused the so-called Israel lobby of "character assassination," of "willful distortion of the record," and an "utter disregard of the truth." Strong charges.

His opponents, of course, had strong charges of their own, accusing him of anti-Israeli bias, even anti-Semitism.

To answer these charge

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As first reported by Laura Rozen and subsequently confirmed by Chris Nelson, it appears that Chas Freeman has been appointed chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), the body that is charged by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) with synthesizing the analyses of the entire U.S. intelligence community and producing National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) — the most famous of which was the December 2007 NIE on Iran’s nuclear program that put paid to the hopes of hawks who favored a military action against Tehran — that are used to guide policymakers on critical issues facing U.S. security.

To me, this is a stunning appointment. There are very few former senior diplomats as experienced and geographically well-rounded (just look at this bio here), knowledgeable, entertaining (in a mordant sort of way), accessible (until now at least), and verbally artful as Freeman. He can speak with equal authority about the politics of the royal family in Saudi Arabia (where he was ambassador), the Chinese Communist Party — he served as Nixon’s pri

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Charles Freeman

Charles W. ("Chas") Freeman, Jr. (født 1943) var chefoversætter under Nixons besøg i Kina i 1972 og de De Forenede Statersambassadør i Saudiarabien fra 1989 til 1992. Han er i dag præsident for Middle East Policy Council. Tidligt i 2009 blev oplysninger lækket om, at Freeman var Director of National IntelligenceDennis C. Blair's valg som formand for National Intelligence Council (NIC) i Barack Obama's administration. Efter flere ugers kritik trak han sit navn tilbage fra nomineringen.

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Freeman blev født på Rhode Island og voksede op på Bahamas, hvor hans fader var forretningsmand, og vendte tilbage til USA da han var tretten. Efter studier på Yale University, studerede han på National Autonomous University of Mexico og begyndte på Harvard Law School.^[2]

Han gik ind i udenrigstjenesten i 1965, og arbejdede først i Indien og Taiwan før han kom til det amerikanske udenrigsministeriums Kina-afdeling. Her var han chef-oversætter under præsident Nixons besøg i Kina i 1972. Han blev senere vi