Washington Post op-ed writer Charles Lane gets the withdrawal of Charles Freeman as President Obama’s would-have-been intelligence briefer almost all wrong.
The main way in which Lane is wrong, of course, is continuing the smears that drove Team Obama to “persuade” Freeman to withdraw his name in the first place.
The second way Lane is wrong is deliberately ignoring the fact that Team Obama did this, and that Freeman’s withdrawal wasn’t voluntary.
The third way Lane is wrong is denying or ignoring that such smears were committed.
Other than that, Lane has one good point.
He notes that Obama hasn’t responded to Freeman’s charges.
Silence gives assent, eh?
And, media in the Middle East clearly understands this much more than Lane does.
And, for just what those smears were all about, see Freeman’s withdrawal statement.
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