Walter Pincus reports in the WaPo, alleged spy Steve Rosen led the charge against Freeman:

"Only a few Jewish organizations came out publicly against Freeman's appointment, but a handful of pro-Israeli bloggers and employees of other organizations worked behind the scenes to raise concerns with members of Congress, their staffs and the media . . .

Rosen's initial posting was the first of 17 he would write about Freeman over a 19-day period. Some of those added more original reporting, while some pointed to other blogs' finds about Freeman's record. In the process, Rosen traced increasing interest in the appointment elsewhere in the blogosphere, including coverage by Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, Michael Goldfarb of the Weekly Standard, and Chait and Martin Peretz of the New Republic.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...

Steven Rosen is alleged to have spied on the US for Israel while working as the chief foreign policy lobbyist for AIPAC, yet here he is conducting a campaign against Freeman, the man the president himself wanted as his top adviser on national intelligence, through his blog.

What's wrong with this picture?

If any other person was accused of spying against the United States would they be free to sit at home to collude with the very organization that employed him to spy in an effort to influence the makeup of the leadership of the National Intelligence Council?

Whatever "dangerous" Arabist leanings Freeman might have brought to his job, they pail in comparison to the undo and destructive stranglehold the Israel lobby and the neocons have had over this country's foreign policy.

The Iraq war and the counterproductive "diplomacy" we employ against Iran are exhibits A and B of this.

My God, where's the outrage? And where are the politicians with the guts to call these traitors out?