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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush on Thursday named John Negroponte, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and currently the administration’s top representative in Iraq, to be America’s first national intelligence director.
.... Announcing the move at the White House, Bush said that Negroponte understands global intelligence needs because he’s had a long career in the foreign service. “John will make sure that those whose duty it is to defend America have the information we need to make the right decisions,” Bush said. “We’re going to stop the terrorists before they
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Negroponte is certainly a good choice to get inside the mind of a terrorist, since as U.S. ambassador to Honduras under Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s, he reportedly collaborated with a top-secret Army death squad, ominously called Battalion 316, that kidnaped, tortured and killed hundreds of civilians there. Honduras was a key ally for the Reagan crowd in its covert "contra" effort to topple Nicaragua's leftist government.
The Baltimore Sun nailed the story, and the Embassy's role under Negroponte, in this 1995 expose:
"By 1983, when Alvarez's oppressive methods were well known to the U.S. Embassy, the Reagan administration awarded him the Legion of Merit for 'encouraging the success of democratic processes in Honduras.'" ...A CIA officer based in the U.S. Embassy went frequently to a secret jail known as INDUMIL, where torture was conducted..."
There's a lot more about America's odious behavior in Honduras during the Reagan/Negroponte years in this piece by Stephen Kinzer in the New York Review of Books. We'd like to make this case that elevating Negroponte to such a key post is surely sending the wrong message to a U.S. wary world about our government's position on torture.
But sadly, it sends the right message about where the Bush crowd is at.
I was saddened but not surprised by Bush's choice of Negroponte as head of the intel branches. Negropnte is but a third rate political hack who has never adequately confessed his role in Honduras during the Iran-Contra Affair, which was, in hindsight, the real beginning of the end of American Democracy. It is a good yardstick aginst which we must guage American domestic and foregin policy. Cocaine and murder befit Negroponte as well as they do Reagan and this small little man in the White House named George Bush. I am ashamed by these men, but the future is still ours to have, and it is high time we begain to take back our country, and the way to accomplish this is to send a very strong message to the White House that their tenure is about over, for good. There is a special place in Hell fro Reagan and Bush.
Posted by: Jay Hatheway at February 18, 2005 07:20 AMThis has been featured on at least two blogs from Philly in the last couple days, both Atrios and allspinzone, where I write. Indeed, it is such "old hat" news, reported concerning Negroponte when he took the Iraq position, for instance, that all I needed to muster for my readers was a "we're so screwed" comment, and they knew right what I was talking about.
This is not to say that this Daily News BLOG is out of step. Since you have a broader readership the same sorts of rules do not apply, I suppose -- I can get away with more snarkiness and short-suts in prose that you cannot. Still, it is not news that Mr. Negroponte is likely responsible for dozens of death squad deaths in Latin America in the 80's. Indeed, he may be partly responsible for the death of nuns.
Yes, the death of nuns. Is there no outcry anywhaere?
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Posted by: Boots at February 18, 2005 09:36 AMWe continue to see the parallels between Shrubya's and Hitler's regimes. The Bush cartel is nothing more or less than a gang of liars, thugs, and robber barons, presided over by a hapless twit. Instead of bemoaning our sad fate (how did we come to this?), we should be seeking ways to charge, indict, convict, and imprison the sorry lot of these crooks for their manifold crimes. The usual avenues for accomplishing this have been effectively neutralized by stooges in every branch of government as well as the "news" media. Any ideas?
Posted by: Bill Mac Bean at February 18, 2005 03:02 PMSpinDentist:
Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding you.
I think the 'news' element is Negroponte's appointment yesterday. It is obvious in the post here that the Honduras story is old, the giveaway being:
"The Baltimore Sun nailed the story, and the Embassy's role under Negroponte, in this 1995 expose:"
There are 3,910 results from 'Negroponte posts in the last 24hours' at Google, so clearly this story still has legs.
News is news to anyone who hasn't heard it before. I was vaguely aware, for instance, that Negroponte was ambassador to Honduras during the death-squad era, but did not really know much more than that. This blog is doing what should be its duty by pointing out the seriousness of this bit of history in view of the genuinely new news of the intelligence post appointment.
Posted by: Bryan at February 18, 2005 08:20 PMNegroponte is well know in the banana patch
and around the world so in a sordid way it is perhaps positive that the position is not being filled by a complete unknow. We have seen the enemy and the enemy is US.
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