Cue another puppet dance

'The forced withdrawal of former U.S. Ambassador Charles "Chas" Freeman as chairman of the National Intelligence Council, which oversees the intelligence community's assessment of threats to the United States, marks an important defeat for the Obama administration over how far it can go in pursuing Middle East peace. Washington's powerful neoconservative establishment led the successful assault against Freeman because of his past criticism of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, as former senior CIA analyst Melvin A. Goodman notes' in his essay for Consortiumnews.com 12 March 2009.

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