{"id":70596,"date":"2009-03-11T08:49:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T08:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/11\/le-depart-de-freeman-et-la-crise-du-regime\/"},"modified":"2009-03-11T08:49:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T08:49:35","slug":"le-depart-de-freeman-et-la-crise-du-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/11\/le-depart-de-freeman-et-la-crise-du-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Le d\u00e9part de Freeman et la crise du r\u00e9gime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><h3 class=\"titrebloc\">Le d\u00e9part de Freeman et la crise du r\u00e9gime<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLa d\u00e9cision de Charles Freeman de se retirer de son poste d&rsquo;adjoint du Director of National Intelligence (l&rsquo;amiral Dennis Blair) mesure simplement l&rsquo;\u00e9tat de pourrissement avanc\u00e9, de d\u00e9labrement complet du syst\u00e8me de l&rsquo;am\u00e9ricanisme. Cette affaire, qu&rsquo;on a d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9voqu\u00e9e \u00e0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article-le_cas_freeman_et_les_relations_israel-usa_06_03_2009.html\" class=\"gen\">deux<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article-_yes_he_can_peut-etre_apres_tout_le_cas_freeman_nous_eclairera_09_03_2009.html\" class=\"gen\">reprises<\/a>, prend un tour dramatique \u00e0 cause de la rapidit\u00e9 de son d\u00e9roulement, de la dimension de test qu&rsquo;elle avait prise pour l&rsquo;administration Obama, \u00e0 cause m\u00eame du message du m\u00eame Freeman, le <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123672847973688515.html?mod=googlenews_wsj#\" class=\"gen\">10 mars<\/a> dans le Wall Street <em>Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tCe message proclame et ne peut laisser ignorer qu&rsquo;il y a eu interf\u00e9rence d&rsquo;une puissance d&rsquo;id\u00e9ologie et d&rsquo;argent, le monstrueux <em>Lobby<\/em> pro-isra\u00e9lien, qui ne fonctionne que par mensonges, insinuations, intrigues et diffamations, aupr\u00e8s d&rsquo;un syst\u00e8me (essentiellement les r\u00e9publicains du Congr\u00e8s, dans ce cas) corrompu, v\u00e9nalement et psychologiquement. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tCe message m\u00e9rite \u00e9videmment citation, et quelques passages nous \u00e9claireront. Dans ce cas dramatique, il exprime la col\u00e8re contenue et la lucidit\u00e9 d&rsquo;un homme d\u00e9sireux de servir son pays, et emp\u00each\u00e9 de le faire par une coalition absolument indigne, employant tous les moyens de cette indignit\u00e9 et mettant \u00e0 nu du fait m\u00eame les tares d&rsquo;un syst\u00e8me qui pourrit de l&rsquo;int\u00e9rieur l&rsquo;identit\u00e9 et la souverainet\u00e9. Cela doit \u00eatre lu en fonction de ce qu&rsquo;on pense de ces valeurs, identit\u00e9 et souverainet\u00e9,  quoi qu&rsquo;on pense par ailleurs des USA et de leur politique,  comme une mesure de la d\u00e9cr\u00e9pitude morale et de la bassesse politique du syst\u00e8me occidentaliste en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>I have concluded that the barrage of libelous distortions of my record would not cease upon my entry into office. The effort to smear me and to destroy my credibility would instead continue. I do not believe the National Intelligence Council could function effectively while its chair was under constant attack by unscrupulous people with a passionate attachment to the views of a political faction in a foreign country. I agreed to chair the NIC to strengthen it and protect it against politicization, not to introduce it to efforts by a special interest group to assert control over it through a protracted political campaign.<\/em>  []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The libels on me and their easily traceable email trails show conclusively that there is a powerful lobby determined to prevent any view other than its own from being aired, still less to factor in American understanding of trends and events in the Middle East. The tactics of the Israel Lobby plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency and include character assassination, selective misquotation, the willful distortion of the record, the fabrication of falsehoods, and an utter disregard for the truth. The aim of this Lobby is control of the policy process through the exercise of a veto over the appointment of people who dispute the wisdom of its views, the substitution of political correctness for analysis, and the exclusion of any and all options for decision by Americans and our government other than those that it favors.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>There is a special irony in having been accused of improper regard for the opinions of foreign governments and societies by a group so clearly intent on enforcing adherence to the policies of a foreign government  in this case, the government of Israel. I believe that the inability of the American public to discuss, or the government to consider, any option for US policies in the Middle East opposed by the ruling faction in Israeli politics has allowed that faction to adopt and sustain policies that ultimately threaten the existence of the state of Israel. It is not permitted for anyone in the United States to say so. This is not just a tragedy for Israelis and their neighbors in the Middle East; it is doing widening damage to the national security of the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The outrageous agitation that followed the leak of my pending appointment will be seen by many to raise serious questions about whether the Obama administration will be able to make its own decisions about the Middle East and related issues. I regret that my willingness to serve the new administration has ended by casting doubt on its ability to consider, let alone decide what policies might best serve the interests of the United States rather than those of a Lobby intent on enforcing the will and interests of a foreign government.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLe d\u00e9part deFreeman est comment\u00e9 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/ips\/lubanlobe.php?articleid=14386\" class=\"gen\">ce matin<\/a> par Jim Lobe et Daniel Luban. C&rsquo;est un compte-rendu fort int\u00e9ressant de la chose, qui met notamment en lumi\u00e8re toutes les interventions favorables \u00e0 Freeman de ces derniers jours, et rend encore plus dramatique son d\u00e9part. \u00ab<em>Freeman&rsquo;s withdrawal came as a surprise to many in Washington, particularly since it came only hours after Adm. Dennis Blair, the administration&rsquo;s director of national intelligence (DNI) who made the appointment, issued a strong defense of Freeman during his testimony before the U.S. Senate.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tQuelques remarques sur les soutiens qui avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 apport\u00e9s \u00e0 Freeman sont int\u00e9ressantes \u00e0 lire.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>Fallows was one of several prominent media figures  including Joe Klein of Time and Andrew Sullivan of the Atlantic  who came to Freeman&rsquo;s defense in recent days. While many of them disagree with Freeman&rsquo;s outspoken views, they warned against what Fallows calls the self-lobotomization of U.S. foreign policy that results from shutting out dissenting voices.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Diplomatic and intelligence professionals in the foreign policy bureaucracy  in which Freeman was seen as enjoying strong support  also rallied to his defense. Last week, 17 former U.S. ambassadors  including former ambassador to the UN Thomas Pickering and former ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis  wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal praising Freeman as a man of integrity and high intelligence who would never let his personal views shade or distort intelligence estimates. On Tuesday, seven former senior intelligence officials wrote to Blair in support of Freeman. They called the attacks on him unprecedented in their vehemence, scope, and target and perpetrated by pundits and public figures  <\/em>[who are] <em>aghast at the appointment of a senior intelligence official able to take a more balanced view of the Arab-Israel issue.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>These endorsements by figures with solidly establishmentarian credentials appeared to have strengthened Freeman&rsquo;s position. This made Tuesday&rsquo;s announcement especially unexpected, since many felt that Freeman had succeeded in riding out the storm.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Despite the Saudi and Chinese angles of the Freeman controversy, many still saw it as heart a neoconservative campaign to shut out critics of Israel from positions of power. The whole anti-Freeman effort was engineered by the people who fear that Obama will abandon current policies toward Israel from acceptance of the occupation to forceful opposition to it, M.J. Rosenberg of the Israel Policy Forum wrote on the Huffington Post.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The timing of Freeman&rsquo;s withdrawal is likely to prove especially bad for the Obama administration, since it came after Blair had committed a significant amount of political capital to defending his appointee.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tEffectivement, l&rsquo;affaire Freeman, dans les conditions o\u00f9 elle se d\u00e9noue,  d\u00e9finitivement ou pas, c&rsquo;est \u00e0 voir,  marque un cas dramatique pour l&rsquo;administration Obama et pour la politique de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale du nouveau pr\u00e9sident. L&rsquo;intervention de Freeman (son message) est tout \u00e0 fait inhabituelle, dans un domaine o\u00f9 r\u00e8gne une obligation de r\u00e9serve tacite,  ou r\u00e9gnait, semble-t-il, puisque l&rsquo;\u00e9tat du syst\u00e8me permet de moins en moins  l&rsquo;abstention \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard; elle constitue une affirmation publique particuli\u00e8rement forte de l&rsquo;\u00e9tat de la politique ext\u00e9rieure des USA, des conditions o\u00f9 elle est d\u00e9cid\u00e9e, de l&#8217;emprisonnement o\u00f9 elle se trouve encore plus \u00e0 cause des structures de fonctionnement du syst\u00e8me, et de la place que ces structures font aux influences, qu&rsquo;\u00e0 cause des influences elles-m\u00eames.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLe d\u00e9part de Freeman est un coup tr\u00e8s dur pour l&rsquo;administration Obama parce qu&rsquo;il met en question la capacit\u00e9 et la libert\u00e9 d&rsquo;action de cette administration, alors que toute la politique du pr\u00e9sident est bas\u00e9e sur l&rsquo;affirmation du changement impliquant \u00e9videmment toute libert\u00e9 pour son action. Pour le <em>Lobby<\/em>, c&rsquo;est \u00e9videmment une victoire mais, selon certaines circonstances, cela pourrait devenir une victoire \u00e0 la Pyrhus, si Obama \u00e9tait conduit \u00e0 choisir de r\u00e9agir, sinon \u00e0 y \u00eatre forc\u00e9 par la logique de sa politique. Cette r\u00e9action ne pourrait \u00eatre, \u00e0 terme tr\u00e8s rapide, que la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de tenter de montrer sa libert\u00e9 d&rsquo;action,  dans le cas qui nous occupe, la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de chercher \u00e0 durcir sa politique vis-\u00e0-vis d&rsquo;Isra\u00ebl. Qu&rsquo;il r\u00e9ussisse \u00e0 le faire, c&rsquo;est une autre affaire quand on consid\u00e8re la morale du cas Freeman pour ce qui concerne l&rsquo;\u00e9tat du syst\u00e8me; mais il y a au moins une dramatisation du cas, avec la possibilit\u00e9 que l&rsquo;influence monstrueuse exerc\u00e9e par le <em>Lobby<\/em> devienne en soi un sujet de crise,  d&rsquo;une crise de plus, bien s\u00fbr. La limite de la r\u00e9flexion serait, pour un esprit compliqu\u00e9, de penser qu&rsquo;on n&rsquo;aurait pu imaginer meilleure op\u00e9ration pour tenter de discr\u00e9diter <em>a contrario<\/em> le <em>Lobby<\/em>,  en mettant dans une telle lumi\u00e8re la monstruosit\u00e9 et l&rsquo;indignit\u00e9 de son influence. Si, apr\u00e8s cette affaire, tout continue comme avant, on pourrait en conclure que plus rien ne peut sauver ce syst\u00e8me.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><p>\tMis en ligne le 11 mars 2009 \u00e0 08H49<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le d\u00e9part de Freeman et la crise du r\u00e9gime La d\u00e9cision de Charles Freeman de se retirer de son poste d&rsquo;adjoint du Director of National Intelligence (l&rsquo;amiral Dennis Blair) mesure simplement l&rsquo;\u00e9tat de pourrissement avanc\u00e9, de d\u00e9labrement complet du syst\u00e8me de l&rsquo;am\u00e9ricanisme. Cette affaire, qu&rsquo;on a d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9voqu\u00e9e \u00e0 deux reprises, prend un tour dramatique&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[705,8109,3003,2774,3816,1094,4849],"class_list":["post-70596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-blair","tag-dennis","tag-freeman","tag-israel","tag-lobby","tag-lobe","tag-retrait"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}