I just watched Freeman being interviewed by Fareed Zakaria. A couple of three points.
1. The other day there was a brief discussion on whether or not Freeman is Jewish. He isn’t, by his own words.
2. He frequently cited the Zionist Organization of America as the main bogeyman here. Any Jew will tell you that they’ve barely heard of the organization and probably couldn’t tell you three positions they have on three issues they choose to deal with. I read a bit, and I couldn’t tell you the first thing about the organization. Of course, anyone heading a government intelligence organization should be familiar with that level of organizational ineffectuality. But he’s not. He’s claiming they are some kind of all powerful monolith.
3. He still asserts that US support of Israeli settlements, or as we call them in the US, neighborhoods built on their own land, was the cause of 9/11. Well, for the former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, he certainly has chosen to completely ignore the history of Wahabism and it’s relationship to the Saudi Royal Family. That is pretty poor analysis. He is completely unqualified for this job. This much is clear. It is unclear whether or not he is still on the Saudi payroll. And it is beyond me to understand how a man could assert that Israel is a greater threat to American than the Saudis.
