YEAH, WE'D SAY SO - AT 2:20 P.M. ET:  From Fox News:

National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair told Congress Tuesday that China has adopted a more aggressive military posture, according to Reuters, after the Pentagon accused five Chinese ships of harassing an unarmed U.S. Navy craft in international waters.

The top intelligence official said the incident is the worst since a U.S. spy plane and crew were detained in 2001.

COMMENT:  Oh, swell.  Blair just chose, as head of his National Intelligence Council, Charles Freeman Jr., who is on record as approving the Tiananmen Square Massacre.   Now we have friction with China.  Would you want a man with Freeman's views as head of a sensitive intelligence unit?  We've been following the Freeman selection, and it's time for Freeman to go.  But he won't go.

March 10, 2009