Hollleeeee Shit! John Negroponte as Top Spy? [View All]

Just heard on radio that Bush has nominated this guy as the new Intelligence Czar.

This is baaaaaad.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20050217/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_intelligence_chief_27
Bush Nominates Negroponte As Intel Chief

13 minutes ago Top Stories - AP


By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) on Thursday named John Negroponte, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (news - web sites) and currently the administration's top representative in Iraq (news - web sites), to be America's first national intelligence director.

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Negroponte's confirmation to the United Nations post was delayed a half-year mostly because of criticism of his record as the U.S. ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985. In Honduras, he played a prominent role in assisting the Contras in Nicaragua in their war with the left-wing Sandinista government.

Human rights groups alleged that Negroponte acquiesced in human rights abuses by Honduran death squads funded and partly trained by the CIA. Negroponte testified during the hearings for the U.N. post that he did not believe death squads were operating in Honduras.

In the past year, the intelligence community has been faced with a series of negative reports, including the work of the Sept. 11 commission and the Senate Intelligence Committee's inquiry on the flawed Iraq intelligence.