New Documents show "Negroponte Contra Role"

[dbeach]

Liar liar your ambassadorship is on fire.
What a surprise..a neo-con who lies..


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44944-2005Apr11.html

"Papers Illustrate Negroponte's Contra Role
Newly Released Documents Show Intelligence Nominee Was Active in U.S. Effort
The day after the House voted to halt all aid to rebels fighting to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, U.S. Ambassador to Honduras John D. Negroponte urged the president's national security adviser and the CIA director to hang tough.

The secret message traffic suggests that Negroponte was highly attuned to the political and public relations ramifications of embassy and State Department reporting. He occasionally berated colleagues for their lack of discretion and worked hard to maintain the fiction that Honduras was not serving as the logistical base for as many as 15,000 anti-Sandinista rebels known as the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, or FDN. "

[madhat]

1. as if it'll make a bit of difference....

[indepat]

2. Negroponte fits right in: the intelligence will be right now, far, far

right, for he is the man to get it right each and every time.

[whistle]

3. Negroponte's strong suit has been....

...tolerance of death squads and politicization of intelligence information.

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Negroponte's Blind Spots
By Robert Parry
February 19, 2005


George W. Bush’s choice of John Negroponte to be the first U.S. intelligence czar signals that Washington is heading down the same road that has led to earlier American intelligence failures and controversies – from politicizing analysis to winking at human rights abuses.

Though Washington insiders expect Negroponte’s nomination to sail through the Senate, one question that might be worth asking about his tenure as U.S. ambassador to Honduras in the 1980s is: “Were you oblivious to the Honduran military’s human rights violations and drug trafficking, or did you just ignore these problems for geopolitical reasons?”

It seems that Negroponte either oversaw a stunningly inept U.S. intelligence operation at the embassy in Tegucigalpa – missing major events occurring almost under his nose – or he is someone ready to tolerate atrocities – including torture, rape and murder – while slanting intelligence reporting to please his superiors in Washington.

Whichever it is – incompetence or complicity – it is hard to understand how Negroponte, the current U.S. ambassador to Iraq, can be expected to fix the intelligence flaws revealed by the Bush administration’s failure to connect the dots before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks or to avert the scandalous use of torture on Muslim suspects captured in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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<link> http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/021805.html