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John "death squad" Negroponte appointed by Bush
 Sat Feb 19, 2005 3:05 am
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How appropriate that John Negroponte is Bush's ambassador at the United Nations. This week, he delivered America's threat to the world that it may 'require' to attack more and more countries. As US ambassador to Honduras in the early 1980s, Negroponte oversaw American funding of the regime's death squads, known as Battalion 316, that wiped out the democratic opposition, while the CIA ran its 'contra' war of terror against neighbouring Nicaragua. Murdering teachers and slitting the throats of midwives were a speciality." -- investigative journalist John Pilger
Today, President Bush named John Negroponte to fill the position of national intelligence director.
An article by Kurt Nimmo, a reporter with the www.uruknet.info?p=9739 News web site, called Negroponte, John ‘Death Squad’ Negroponte. He went on to say in his report, "It figures, in fact makes perfect sense: Iran-Contra criminal and death squad facilitator, John Negroponte, currently "ambassador" to occupied Iraq, will fill the new position of director of national intelligence.
Israel is still very much in "bed" with the United States both refusing to let up on the pressure and to back away and leave Iran alone. The U.S. is forcing Lebanon to submit to the United States, compromising Iran’s National Sovereignty for world considerations.
The United States is considered the number one country lacking in integrity on a global scale including both past and present. We are considered THE MOST ROGUE country in the world with a Leader that is a renigade that cannot be trusted along with his administration or Congress.
"The director’s responsibility is straightforward and demanding. John will make sure those whose duty it is to defend America have the information we need to make the right decisions," said Bush upon announcing Negroponte’s appointment to the contrived post.
"The newly created intelligence chief position will oversee 15 U.S. intelligence agencies and emerged as a central recommendation of the [Bush whitewash] commission that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks last year," reports Reuters.
"The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) is the title of United States cabinet-level post that will split the post of Director of Central Intelligence into two separate positions: the DNI, which would coordinate all segments of the Intelligence Community and be the principal intelligence adviser to the president," www.Wikipedia.org
"In short, Bush has nominated a serial violator of human rights (in Honduras), a coordinator of the illegal war against the people of Nicaragua, and a confirmed liar as DNI."
"No doubt a perfect choice, considering how the Bushcons have "reformed" intelligence over the last few months, most notably by sending Porter Goss, the most partisan CIA director in history, to crack heads and purge "realists" at the spook agency. As we know, Cheney and the Strausscons, in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, leaned heavily on the CIA to adopt its fictional case for invasion, manufactured by the Office of Special Plans, a disinformation and deception factory installed in the Pentagon at the behest of Douglas Feith, a rabid Neocon Zionist, and the Strausscons. As soon as Negroponte is confirmed by the Senate — and this confirmation is all but a done deal — the entire "intelligence community" will become a sprawling Office of Special Plans." OSP
"Over the next four years, the Bushian vision of intelligence — lies and half-truths devised as pretexts to invade "rogue nations," i.e., the "axis of evil" roster — will dominate and Bush’s sadism, torture, and rape gulag will expand. Negroponte’s appointment as DNI dovetails perfectly with the Pentagon’s covert activity (minus accountability to Congress or the American people), as recently spelled out by Seymour Hersh and essentially confirmed by the Pentagon. Negroponte has the ideal curriculum vitae: organizing death squads, covering up human rights abuses, and facilitating illegal terror campaigns against sovereign nations, as he did with the Contras in Nicaragua." |
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Sat Feb 19, 2005 3:39 am
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The Case Against John Negroponte
A Letter of Testimony - Sister Laetitia Bordes worked in El Salvador for almost a decade in the 1980 s and 90 s. She is the author of the book Our Hearts Were Broken. In this letter, Sister Bordes recalls a meeting with John Negroponte in 1982, when she was sent to Honduras on a fact-finding mission regarding the disappearance of women who had fled El Salvador after the assassination of Archbishop Romero. Thirteen years later, Ambassador Binns reported that the women, after savage torture, had been taken up in helicopters and thrown to the ground. In this letter, Sister Bordes explains a bit about the roles of The School of the Americas and Battalion 3-16, designed in part for the murder of Nicaraguan Sandinistas, who had overthrown the U.S. backed dictator Somoza in 1979.
"Fatal Secrets" - "When a wave of torture and murder staggered a small U.S. ally, truth was a casualty. Was the CIA involved? Did Washington know? Was the public deceived? Now we know: Yes, Yes and Yes." (by Gary Cohn and Ginger Thompson, Staff of The Baltimore Sun, whose article was originally published on June 11, 1995.) This article is lengthy and full and hard on the heart, but the cause of honesty requires that it be made available. This is the kind of knowledge with which we must arm ourselves if we are determined to never again permit such atrocities to take place under the eyes of our own government. One must ask oneself whether these are the kinds of abuses that would be permitted by a man who would nominate a man like John Negroponte to be our country's human rights spokesman.
What Message is Bush Trying to Send? This short article by Duncan Campbell for The Sun-Herald of Sydney, Australia, asks that question and mentions the very disturbing information that "Some members of the battalion [316] lived in the US, but were deported just as Mr. Bush's selection of Mr Negroponte was announced." What DOES this say about the current administration's "honor and integrity"?
The Purpose of These In-Your-Face Appointments - Mary McGrory, in the July 8, 2001 edition of The Washington Post comments that "Choosing Abrams makes laughable Bush's promise of increased civility and bipartisanship. Ditto his claims of being 'a uniter, not a divider'." This article does not hold back in presenting the far-from-honorable character of Elliott Abrams, whom Bush has already - with no requirement for congressional approval - been able to reinstall in the White House. But the fact that Negroponte may appear to be more of a "gentleman" than the snarling Elliott Abrams in no way justifies Negroponte as being fit in any fashion to be a representative for human rights. Why? Why is Bush making these outrageous nominations and appointments? The author suggests that "Cuban Americans who helped the president in the great fight for Florida are getting what he feels is their due. Bush owes them big time.
http://www.geocities.com/ravencrazy/Negroponte.html
BACKGROUND FACTS
"From 1981 to 1985 Negroponte was US ambassador to Honduras. During his tenure, he oversaw the growth of military aid to Honduras from $4 million to $77.4 million a year. According to The New York Times, Negroponte was responsible for "carrying out the covert strategy of the Reagan administration to crush the Sandinistas government in Nicaragua." Critics say that during his ambassadorship, human rights violations in Honduras became systematic.
Negroponte supervised the creation of the El Aguacate air base, where the US trained Nicaraguan Contras and which critics say was used as a secret detention and torture center during the 1980s. In August 2001, excavations at the base discovered 185 corpses, including two Americans, who are thought to have been killed and buried at the site.
Records also show that a special intelligence unit of the Honduran armed forces, Battalion 3-16, trained by the CIA and Argentine military, kidnapped, tortured and killed hundreds of people, including US missionaries. Critics charge that Negroponte knew about these human rights violations and yet continued to collaborate with the Honduran military while lying to Congress.
..."In early 1984, two American mercenaries, Thomas Posey and Dana Parker, contacted Negroponte, stating they wanted to supply arms to the Contras after the U.S. Congress had banned further military aid. Documents show that Negroponte brought the two with a contact in the Honduran armed forces The operation was exposed nine months later, at which point the Reagan administration denied any US involvement, despite Negroponte's participation in the scheme. Other documents uncovered a plan of Negroponte and then-Vice President George H. W. Bush to funnel Contra aid money through the Honduran government.
During his tenure as US ambassador to Honduras, Binns, who was appointed by President Jimmy Carter, made numerous complaints about human rights abuses by the Honduran military and he claimed he fully briefed Negroponte on the situation before leaving the post. When the Reagan administration came to power, Binns was replaced by Negroponte, who has consistently denied having knowledge of any wrongdoing. Later, the Honduras Commission on Human Rights accused Negroponte himself of human rights violations.
Speaking of Negroponte and other senior US officials, an ex-Honduran congressman, Efrain Diaz, told the Baltimore Sun, which in 1995 published an extensive investigation of US activities in Honduras:
Their attitude was one of tolerance and silence. They needed Honduras to loan its territory more than they were concerned about innocent people being killed.
The Suns's investigation found that the CIA and US embassy knew of numerous abuses but continued to support Battalion 3-16 and ensured that the embassy's annual human rights report did not contain the full story.
When President Bush announced Negroponte's appointment to the UN shortly after coming to office, it was met with widespread protest. However, the Bush administration did not back down and even went so far as to try to silence potential witnesses. On March 25, the Los Angeles Times reported on the sudden deportation from the United States of several former Honduran death squad members who could have provided damaging testimony against Negroponte in his Senate confirmation hearings. One of the deportees was General Luis Alonso Discua, founder of Battalion 3-16. In the preceding month, Washington had revoked the visa of Discua who was Honduras' Deputy Ambassador to the UN. Nonetheless, Discua went public with details of US support of Battalion 3-16.
Upon learning of Negroponte's nomination, Reed Brody of Human Rights Watch in New York commented:
When John Negroponte was ambassador he looked the other way when serious atrocities were committed. One would have to wonder what kind of message the Bush administration is sending about human rights by this appointment. "
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Sun Feb 20, 2005 5:51 am
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Scum Also Rises
The Bloody Career of John Negroponte
By DAVE LINDORFF
The nomination by President George Bush of John Negroponte for the new post of director of national intelligence, in charge of overseeing all the burgeoning intelligence operations of the United States, is both obscene and predictable.
Negroponte, currently the U.S. ambassador to Iraq and, unofficially, the head of the U.S. occupation of that country, is a career foreign service officer on paper, but in fact a veteran CIA operative responsible for some of the blackest crimes of murder and torture in Central America during that region's dark days of civil war, revolution and counter-revolution in the late 20th Century.
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More: http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff02182005.html
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