Eric Trager cuts him off at the passage:
Walt foolishly fails to address the major point of contention surrounding Freeman’s appointment: that Freeman made the scandalous transition from U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia to head of a Saudi-bankrolled think tank. In turn, Walt conveniently overlooks the fact that Freeman used his influence in Washington to peddle the Saudi party line after 9/11, which held that American foreign policy caused the terrorist attacks on our country.
Indeed, the hypocrisy is stunning. How can Walt — who has spent the past three years bloviating on the supposed influence of pro-Israel groups on U.S. foreign policy — defend the administration for appointing an outright Saudi client to chair the all-important NIC? Why does he bristle when “pro-Israel pundits” merely speak out on foreign policy, but has no problem empowering a man whose income came via Riyadh to determine the very intelligence that makes it into top policymakers’ hands?
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