NEGROPONTE named as Natl. Intel. Director - MSNBC

[thebigidea]

here we go again... this'll be charming, I'm sure.



... and judging by his below-the-radar style as Iraqi "ambassador," I'm sure he'll only crawl out from under his rock two or three times a year.

MSNBCdrone just promised to tell us what Negroponte "brings to the table" after these important messages.

I wonder if "death squad" comes up.

Bush at 10am will rub his bald head.

[ElectroPrincess]

1. Oh that's just downright frightening!

:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:

[Blue-Jay]

2. You gotta be fucking KIDDING me!

I just saw that too. What a scary evil douchebag.

[NewJeffCT]

12. this was my reaction when I saw post

This White House will stoop to any level...

[WildClarySage]

13. that was my reaction too, word for word.

[MADem]

3. Holy shit--that guy is a CRIMINAL

...A criminal with connections, but a criminal. Jeez, no one seems to want to spend any time in Iraq. They show them leaving the place (remember Bremer's escape...he looked like he had a nest of fire ants up his ass!) doing double time, in their little vests, scurrying like the rats they are.

[RBHam]

4. The Salvador Option Comes Home...

Be VERY afraid...

DITCHES full of corpses...

[Just Me]

19. Fascism on the march with war criminals and corporatists in charge.

Yup,...this one has just pushed me over the edge.

:cry:

Buh-bye America,...buh-bye.

[mhr]

5. A Murderer And Nefarious Operator Is Now In Charge Of Our Intelligence

Could things become any stranger?

[UTUSN]

6. Oh, Good Grief. This Quote Could Well Include Him

But perhaps part of the explanation is Shrub's baldness fetish.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/green02282004.html (very long)

The Principals: Perle, Wolfowitz and Feith

One might wonder how, with security histories like these, Messrs. Bryen and Ledeen have managed to get second and third chances to return to government in highly classified positions.

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[Lindsay]

7. Oh, I AM very afraid.

But that's been going on for me since the coup of 2000.

They just keep digging us in deeper, don't they?

[bleedingheart]

8. Un-freakingbelievable...

[WestHoustonDem]

9. This is Kerry's chance to stand up and do something

He investigated the whole Iran-Contra scandal so he's in the best position to fight this. Maybe we should all write to him.

[thebigidea]

11. at best, somebody will just mumble "this raises very troubling questions."

though I'd love to be proven wrong.

goddamnit, please prove me wrong!

[RBHam]

15. The case for ending Presidential Pardons

I think, anyway....

[Just Me]

10. awwwww SHIT!!!

:scared:

I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS!!!!

NOW, I REALLY, REALLY WANNA GET THE HELL OUTTA' THIS INSANE COUNTRY!!!

Geeeezuuus. This guy has a wicked, wicked history. He a freakin' criminal for crying out loud!!!

DAMNIT!!!

[Beetwasher]

14. Gotta Love A Guy Who's Middle Name is "Death Squad"

:eyes:

Hey TBI! Good to see ya around, it's been a while!

[Nordmadr]

16. Is there a reson all these schmucks look like the

arch nemesis of Batman...The Penguin?!

Olaf

[Padraig18]

17. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

:argh:

[chiffon]

18. Perhaps Ollie North will replace him as Iraq's ambassador.

The way things are going, this seems plausible to my insane logic. Birds of a feather...

[Blue-Jay]

20. Bush live now: "John brings a unique set of skills for these challenges."

Holy shit. This guy's a killer and a criminal. I guess those are indeed "unique skills"....

[chlamor]

21. Negroponte is the right man for the job

He is the consummate technocrat for the empire. A truly sinister bastard. It is at moments such as this that I hope that there is a God and that (S)He is vengeful beyond all comprehension.
Background on John Negroponte

The New York Times credits John Negroponte with "carrying out the covert strategy of the Reagan administration to crush the Sandinista government in Nicaragua" during his tenure as US Ambassador to Honduras from 1981 and 1985.  After Congress banned official governmental aid to the Contras, Negroponte undermined Congressional intent by providing logistical support for two U.S. mercenaries determined to supply arms to the Contra army.  When the operation was exposed nine months later, the Reagan administration denied any U.S. government involvement, despite Negroponte's contact earlier that year.  Other documents reveal a scheme of Negroponte and Vice President George Bush to funnel Contra aid money through the Honduran government. During his tenure alone, military aid to Honduras grew from $4 million to $77.4 million a year.

In addition to his work with the Nicaraguan Contra army, Negroponte deliberately falsified State Department human rights reports throughout his time in Honduras.  He helped conceal from Congress the murder, kidnapping and torture abuses of a CIA-equipped and trained Honduran military unit, Battalion 316.  In fact, there is strong evidence that under Negroponte's leadership, at least one CIA agent had unfettered access to the torture chamber of a prominent Honduran woman kidnapped by Battalion 316.  Instead of reporting her whereabouts to family and the proper Honduran judicial authorities, the agent actively collaborated in her torture by reviewing her torturers' questions and suggesting lines of interrogation.  No mention of these human rights violations ever appeared in State Department Human Rights reports for Honduras.

There is ample evidence that Negroponte was fully aware of Battalion 316's human rights violations.  The Baltimore Sun reports that Efrain Diaz Arrivillaga, then a delegate in the Honduran Congress, told the Sun that he complained to Negroponte on numerous occasions about the Honduran military's human rights abuses without result.  Rick Chidester, a junior Embassy Official under Negroponte, similarly reported to the Sun that he was forced to omit an exhaustive gathering of human rights violations from his 1982 State Department report.  In 1996, Negroponte's predecessor Jack Binns exposed Negroponte for having lied when, in 1982, he claimed to have no knowledge of the disappearance of over 32 Salvadoran nuns and women of faith who had fled to Honduras in 1981.  Binns reported that in 1982 the U.S. Embassy was fully aware that the women had been tortured and killed by the Honduran secret police. General Luis Alonso Discua Elvir, commander of Battalion 316 during Negroponte's tenure, has publicly claimed to have information linking Negroponte with Battalion 316's activities.  In 1994, the Honduran Human Rights Commission charged Negroponte personally with several human rights abuses.
http://www.nisgua.org/articles/urgent_action.htm
 

[Just Me]

22. A WAR CRIMINAL in charge of OUR intelligence!!!

This is utterly despressing.

Surely to God Almighty there are heads spinning on the hill over this appointment!!!

[truebrit71]

23. This is bad on so many levels....

Will there be congressional oversight?
Will have have to be confirmed?

If he has to go through that process we have to bring us much pressure to bear on the Dems as humanly possible to make sure he is exposed as the Nazi thug he is...Gonzales simply theorized about torture, Negroponte endorsed and used it...

I am amazed....