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  • The Intel Czar’s Picks: Not Too Intelligent?

    03/15/2009 5:03:09 AM PDT · by Scanian · 10 replies · 1,066+ views
    Newsweek ^ | March 14, 2009 | Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff
    Add president Obama's national intelligence czar, Dennis Blair, to the list of embattled top-level appointees. Blair, a retired four-star Navy admiral who attended Oxford with Bill Clinton, courted controversy among pro-Israel and anti-China activists this month when he named Charles (Chas) Freeman, an outspoken former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, to chair the National Intelligence Council, a committee of the government's top intel analysts. After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other pols complained to the White House, Freeman abruptly withdrew. Now both Republican and Democratic intel experts are raising questions about another Blair pick: John Deutch, a former CIA director once...