He should be in prison. God, I HATE this criminal enterprise masquerading as an "administration."

For what he did to Central America in the 1980s under St. Reagan.

If you support overthrowing Maduro in Venezuela, this is who you're aligning with. Along with John Bolton and Mike Pompeo. And Latin American ultra-rightists like Duque in Colombia and Bolsonaro in Brazil.

They'll do it forever if someone doesn't stop them.

Very tiny review of Elliot Abrams' career highlights:

Rep. Ilhan Omar had a heated exchange with Trump's Venezuela envoy over his role in the US's violent history in Central America

Christopher Woody and John Haltiwanger Feb. 13, 2019, 6:01 PM

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In a contentious exchange before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar confronted Elliott Abrams, the Trump administration's special envoy for Venezuela, over his role in US policy toward Central America in the 1980s — a period marked by brutal actions by US-backed forces in the region.

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"I fail to understand why members of this committee or the American people should find any testimony that you give today to be truthful," Omar said. Abrams was later pardoned by President George H.W. Bush, who was Reagan's vice president.

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Abrams began to reply and said Omar's statement "wasn't a question," but he was quickly cut off. The two sparred before Omar moved to Abrams' Senate testimony a few months after the December 1981 massacre in the Salvadoran village of El Mozote.

A Human Rights Watch report said Abrams in his testimony "artfully distorted several issues in order to discredit the public accounts" of the infamous massacre to downplay the Reagan administration's role. The forces responsible for the 1981 mass killing were trained and armed by the US.

More:
https://www.businessinsider.com/ilhan-omar-elliott-abrams-testimony-on-venezuela-central-america-2019-2/

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An Actual American War Criminal May Become Our Second-Ranking Diplomat

Elliott Abrams spent the Reagan years abetting genocide—now, he has been floated as Trump’s deputy secretary of state.

By Eric Alterman
FEBRUARY 2, 2017

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Like Trump himself, Abrams has behaved so badly in so many different arenas, it actually works in his favor: No one can keep up. The Post piece—which notes that the Trump administration has decided not to appoint a deputy secretary of state for management, giving the sole remaining deputy an enormous amount of influence over both policy and management issues—observes that Abrams was forced to plead guilty to deliberately misleading Congress regarding his nefarious role in the Iran-contra scandal. (He was also disbarred in the District of Columbia.)

However, this is just the tip of a colossal iceberg. As a member of George W. Bush’s National Security Council staff, Abrams encouraged, according to credible reports, a (briefly successful) military coup against the democratically elected government of Venezuela in 2002, poisoning the US relationship with that government once it returned to power. He also worked to subvert the results of the 2006 elections in the Palestinian territories, a move that ended up strengthening the most radical elements of Hamas and undermining—perhaps forever—the possibility of a democratic peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

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Promoted to assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, Abrams repeatedly denounced the continued protests by organizations seeking to call attention to the mass murders of both Ríos Montt and the no less bloodthirsty President Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo, who came to power fewer than three years later. In one village during the latter’s reign, “the army herded the entire population into the courthouse, raped the women, beheaded the men, and took the children outside to smash them to death against rocks,” according to Inevitable Revolutions, Walter LaFeber’s classic history of the United States in Central America. At the time, a leader of the Guatemalan Mutual Support Group (an organization of mothers of the disappeared), her brother, and her 3-year-old son were found dead in their wrecked car. Abrams not only supported the nonsensical official explanation (there was “no evidence indicating other than that the deaths were due to an accident”), he also denounced a spokeswoman for the group who demanded an investigation, insisting that she had “no right to call herself a human rights worker.” When The New York Times published an op-ed challenging the official State Department count of the mass murders under way—by a woman who had witnessed a death-squad-style assassination in broad daylight in Guatemala City without ever seeing it mentioned in the press—Abrams lied outright in a letter to the editor, even citing an imaginary story in a nonexistent newspaper to insist that the man’s murder had, in fact, been reported.

More:
https://www.thenation.com/article/an-actual-american-war-criminal-may-become-our-second-ranking-diplomat/

because of the trauma, suffering, grief it causes those who survive, even.

There is no part of them which can be exonerated. Everything they do is evil.