The Nation, ein „linkes“ Wochenblatt, hat herausgefunden, weshalb US-Präsident Barack Hussein Obama mit manchem seiner Personalvorschläge wenig Glück hat:
„The Zionist lobby roared – and President Obama blinked. That’s the story, in a nutshell, of the lobby’s successful campaign against the appointment of Charles W. ‚Chas‘ Freeman Jr. as chair of the National Intelligence Council. [..]
The coordinated assault against Freeman started in right-wing blogs, led by Steve Rosen’s ‚Obama Mideast Monitor,‘ on a site led by Daniel Pipes and Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute and a handful of others. Within days, the attack spread to the Weekly Standard, National Review and Marty Peretz’s New Republic, and then to op-eds in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, which published a particularly scurrilous piece by Jonathan Chait, who called Freeman a ‚fanatic.‘
Backed by furious behind-the-scenes lobbying, it triggered demands for inquiries from members of Congress. Leading the pack were Republicans John Boehner and Eric Cantor, seven GOP members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and some leading Democrats, including Charles Schumer and Steve Israel of New York.“
The Nation vom 30. März 2009 wird auf Wunsch der mächtigen Lobby, die derlei brisante Enthüllungen verhindern will, nicht erscheinen.