Last night I noted that the NYT j published an article on the Freeman matter.

The article blames the “Israel Lobby”.

The article does not mention Freeman’s lobbying on behalf of the Saudis.

The article does not mention his being paid by the Saudis.

The article does not mention the opposition to Freeman by Chinese dissent groups in the US.

The article is what you would expect from the Jew-hating New York Times.

Israel Stance Was Undoing of Nominee for Intelligence Post
nytimes.com

Today, the Washington Post published an editorial which put the blame exactly where it belongs- on Freeman:

Blame the ‘Lobby’
The Obama administration’s latest failed nominee peddles a conspiracy theory

Former ambassador Charles W. Freeman Jr. looked like a poor choice to chair the National Intelligence Council. A former envoy to Saudi Arabia and China, he suffered from an extreme case of clientitis on both accounts. In addition to chiding Beijing for not crushing the Tiananmen Square democracy protests sooner and offering sycophantic paeans to Saudi King “Abdullah the Great,” Mr. Freeman headed a Saudi-funded Middle East advocacy group in Washington and served on the advisory board of a state-owned Chinese oil company.
It wasn’t until Mr. Freeman withdrew from consideration for the job, however, that it became clear just how bad a selection he was. Mr. Freeman issued a two-page screed on Tuesday in which he described himself as the victim of a shadowy and sinister “Lobby” which is “intent on enforcing adherence to the policies of a foreign government.” Yes, Mr. Freeman was referring to Americans who support Israel - and his statement was a grotesque libel. For the record, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee took no formal position on Mr. Freeman’s appointment and undertook no lobbying against him. According to Newsweek, Mr. Freeman’s most formidable critic - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - was incensed by his position on dissent in China.
Freeman describes “an inability of the American public to discuss, or the government to consider, any option for U.S. policies in the Middle East opposed by the ruling faction in Israeli politics.” That will certainly be news to Israel’s “ruling faction,” which in the past few years has seen the U.S. government promote a Palestinian election that it opposed; refuse it weapons it might have used for an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities; and adopt a policy of direct negotiations with a regime that denies the Holocaust and that promises to wipe Israel off the map. (Washington Post)
washingtonpost.com