Ray McGovern: Hail, Hail The Gang's All Here !!

[G_j]

Hail, Hail The Gang's All Here

by Ray McGovern, TomPaine.com Exclusive

John Negroponte's appointment is the latest evidence that President Bush is strengthening his cabinet's capacity to mislead Congress and trample civil liberties.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/hail_hail_the_gangs_all_here.php

February 18, 2005


The appointment of John Negroponte to be director of National Intelligence is the latest evidence that President Bush is strengthening his cabinet's capacity to mislead Congress and trample civil liberties. Ray McGovern, 27-year veteran of the CIA, examines the meaning of the Negroponte appointment and the dark trend it confirms.

Ray McGovern, a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990, is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. He chaired National Intelligence Estimates in addition to preparing the president’s Daily Brief.
-----

The nomination of John Negroponte to the new post of director of National Intelligence (DNI) caps a remarkable parade of Bush administration senior nominees. Among the most recent:


-Alberto Gonzales, confirmed as attorney general: the lawyer who advised the president he could ignore the US War Crimes Act and the Geneva Conventions on torture and create a “reasonable basis in law...which would provide a solid defense to any future prosecution.”

-Michael Chertoff, confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security: the lawyer who looked the other way when 762 innocent immigrants (mostly of Arab and South Asian descent) were swept up in a post-9/11 dragnet and held as “terrorism suspects” for several months. The dictates of PR trumped habeas corpus; the detentions fostered an image of quick progress in the “war on terrorism.”

-John Negroponte: the congenial, consummate diplomat now welcomed back into the brotherhood. Presently our ambassador in Baghdad, Negroponte is best known to many of us as the ambassador to Honduras with the uncanny ability to ignore human rights abuses so as not to endanger congressional support for the attempt to overthrow the duly elected government of Nicaragua in the '80s. Negroponte’s job was to hold up the Central American end of the Reagan administration’s support for the Contra counterrevolutionaries, keeping Congress in the dark, as necessary.

Introducing...Elliot’s Protégé


..more..

[flyarm]

1. i just called rockefellers office

and said he no longer represents my values as he is supporting a murderer..and i will put my money into replacing all dems who support murderers!!

fly

[G_j]

2. thank you!

you'll notice that most Dems kissed two out of three of these arses.

[Karenina]

3. Great piece!!!

I want to have Ray McGovern's love-child!!! ;-)

[G_j]

5. when I saw the line, "the gangs all here"

I knew exactly what he would be writing about.
I'm glad a few EX-CIA are on our side.

[liberalhistorian]

6. Could you do us a favor and

let us know how he responds? That should be interesting.

[HootieMcBoob]

4. kick n/t

:kick:

[ken-in-seattle]

7. you misspelled Heil Heil. nt

[JanMichael]

8. Ray's a cool guy. He was an great guest caller on the Guy James Show.

IIRC he said that Bush I called Wolfowitz and Perle the "Crazies"