Have they all peeled the "Free Tibet" bumper stickers off their Volvos? Why aren't more human rights groups expressing concerns about Freeman? The NYT? Silent. Human Rights Watch (Soros)? Silent. International Crisis Group (George Soros)? Not silent -- its Vice-Chairman, former Ambassador Pickering, wrote a letter to the WSJ supporting Freeman (co-signed by Samuel Lewis, and 10 other former Ambassadors).The Washington Times editorializes today:Chas Freeman, now undergoing vetting for the position of chair of the National Intelligence Council, thinks - rather astoundingly - that what is going on in Tibet is the fault of the United States. In remarks made last April, in which he infamously referred to the March 2008 Tibetan uprisings as "race riots," Freeman stated that "the level of patriotic indignation in China against posturing by American and European politicians over Tibet is already so high that a long-term clamp-down in Tibet seems inevitable."...(Read Full Post)