Obama's atrocious pick for National Intelligence Council

If you thought some of Barry Oh!’s other cabinet/admin picks were problematic, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Make sure to read Moonbattery’s full post on Chas Freeman, and then get back with me and let me know if you can figure out what the hell Team Obama was smoking when they (and he) made the decision to pick this anti-Semitic anti-democracy anti-American weasel to head the NIC.

Just what does the NIC do?

The National Intelligence Council (NIC) is the Intelligence Community’s (IC’s) center for midterm and long-term strategic thinking. Its primary functions are to:

* Support the DNI in his role as head of the Intelligence Community.
* Provide a focal point for policymakers to task the Intelligence Community to answer their questions.
* Reach out to nongovernment experts in academia and the private sector to broaden the Intelligence Community’s perspective.
* Contribute to the Intelligence Community’s effort to allocate its resources in response to policymakers’ changing needs.
* Lead the Intelligence Community’s effort to produce National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) and other NIC products.

NIEs are the DNI’s most authoritative written judgments concerning national security issues. They contain the coordinated judgments of the Intelligence Community regarding the likely course of future events. The NIC’s goal is to provide policymakers with the best, unvarnished, and unbiased information—regardless of whether analytic judgments conform to US policy. National Intelligence Officers’ (NIOs) primary functions are to:

* Advise the DNI.
* Interact regularly with senior intelligence consumers and support their current and longer-term needs.
* Produce top-quality estimative intelligence in a process that is efficient and responsive.
* Engage with outside experts to tap their knowledge and insights.
* Help assess the capabilities and needs of IC analytic producers.
* Promote collaboration among IC analytic producers on strategic warning, advanced analytic tools, and methodologies.
* Articulate substantive priorities to guide intelligence collection, evaluation, and procurement.

Here’s the short version, via Fox:

As chairman of the NIC, he would lead the effort to create mid-term and long-term strategic thinking within the U.S. intelligence community and would assist in producing the National Intelligence Estimate — a classified document that analyzes potential threats to U.S. national security.

BTW, the NIC Chair is not a position that has to be confirmed by the US Senate. According to that Fox article, Freeman’s already accepted the offer for the job.

It’s news like this that makes me yearn for the days of … Bill Clinton. I know it sounds crazy, but if we’re going to have a Democrat in the WH, at least let it be one who has HALF A FREAKING CLUE!

Read much more via Memeorandum, where even some lefties are panning this choice.

NC Cop says:

February 25, 2009 at 8:13 pm

Absolutely stunning. I don’t know what’s left, except the assault on the 2nd amendment. I think you’ll see the breaking point when Obama goes after guns.

Great White Rat says:

February 25, 2009 at 8:40 pm

ST asks:

if you can figure out what the hell Team Obama was smoking when they (and he) made the decision to pick this anti-Semitic anti-democracy anti-American weasel to head the NIC.

Oh, I think it’s pretty clear. He’s there to quash any disturbing report of trifles like Iranian thermonuclear weapons research progress, or support for the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah by islamic states, or al Qaeda resurgence. Intelligence of that sort must never reach the ears of the Dalai Bama.

In the same vein, intelligence on signs of further progress in Iraq will get the same treatment. Freeman is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Saudis and the Chinese, and he’s there to make sure all the intelligence fits the narrative. Any intelligence gathered that doesn’t fit the preordained leftist view of the world will be treated as unreliable and will never reach the president.

That gives Obama the excuse of saying ‘no one told me’ when the next overseas crisis smacks him in the face. And it will. Just wait for it. Joe Biden said so, remember?

Also, Freeman may be the way Obama tries to make nice with people like Achmadinejad and bin Laden behind the scenes. Hillary can do the tough posturing from Foggy Bottom, while the real action could work through back channels under Freeman’s direction.

Yearn for Clinton?? Hell, this administration may yet make Jimmy Carter look good at the rate they’re bungling things.

Carol says:

February 25, 2009 at 9:13 pm

I, too, never thought I’d be wishing it was a Clinton in the White House instead of Obama. Don’t think I could stomach Carter though. This stuff is really scary.

Anthony (Los Angeles) says:

February 25, 2009 at 11:04 pm

Obama’s made some bad appointments (Geithner, Daschle, Locke, Powers, i.a.), but this is the first one that’s truly appalling. For pity’s sake, the man thought the fascist regime in Beijing was too cautious in the way they massacred pro-democracy demonstrators. That alone should disqualify him from any post of responsibility in the US government.

Carlos says:

February 26, 2009 at 1:48 am

His holiness (hollowness) knew what he was doing when he asked Freeman to direct the NIC. He is exactly the kind of person Big Zero wishes he could appoint to all the departments but can’t because those have to be approved by Congress. Even Dingy Harry would blanche at that!

Public Secrets says:

March 3, 2009 at 12:32 am

Call me naive, but……

Shouldn’t the intelligence advisers of the President of the United States –a democracy, mind you– be committed to, you know, democracy? Last week, President Obama appointed Chas Freeman to be Chairman of the National Intelligence Council. What does …