Negroponte: deranged and without shame

Negroponte has a long history of overseeing terrorist operations/military brutality. Bush, choosing him as National Intelligence Director is proof once again that Bush's authority is without moral principles. Here is a profile of some of Negroponte's "work".

ublished on Sunday, February 20, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
When John Negroponte Was Mullah Omar
Bush’s pick for director of national intelligence once oversaw an Afghan-style sanctuary for terrorists every bit as nasty as Osama and al Qaeda
by Dennis Hans

Remember Mullah Omar, leader of the Taliban, the Islamist movement that mis-governed the failed state of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001? He and the Taliban played host to Osama bin Laden, providing him and his al Qaeda organization a safe haven from where they could plot terror attacks and train recruits who came to Afghanistan from every corner of the globe.

Well, it turns out that Mullah Omar has much in common with — may even have patterned his career after — John Negroponte, the veteran diplomat who President George W. Bush has selected to be the first director of national intelligence.

You see, the most important chapter in Negroponte’s career took place in the failed state of Honduras. From 1981 to 1985 he was the most powerful figure in that banana republic, just as Mullah Omar was “The Man” 15 years later in Afghanistan. And while Omar welcomed and protected bin Laden and al Qaeda, Negroponte arranged for Honduras to provide sanctuary for the nastiest terrorist group in the entire Western Hemisphere: the contras.

Yes, the contras. You may remember them as the outfit hailed by President Ronald Reagan as “the moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers.” But the voluminous reports of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International show that my characterization, not Reagan’s, is the correct one.

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When it comes right down to it, the hands of the USA's political leadership are very dirty indeed.



Archbishop of San Salvador Arturo Rivera y Damas
views the bodies of the six Jesuits, their housekeeper, and her daughter,
murdered at the University of Central America in El Salvador
on November 16, 1989.


"Leave No Witnesses!"

by Fr. Michael Czerny, SJ

The first hours of November 16th, ten years ago, the full moon shed all its milky light on what was happening behind the Jesuits residence on the campus of the University of Central America (UCA) in San Salvador.

The highest echelons of the military hierarchy had decided the day before that UCAs president Fr. Ignacio Ellacuría, SJ, was to be killed and that they would "leave no witnesses!" With Ellacuría, five other Jesuits and two women also died that night.

I knew them personally, all except Celina, the fifteen-year-old daughter of Julia Elba, the community cook. "Nacho" Martín-Baró and I both studied at the University of Chicago; I met Amando López for the first time in Nicaragua in 1978 and often thereafter; Segundo Montes was a valued colleague in the work for human rights and refugees; Juan Ramón Moreno, a theologian of great spirituality; the popular educator Joaquín López y López, affectionately known as "Lolo"; and Ellacuría whom I respected enormously as a moral and intellectual leader.

The legal investigation began immediately but dragged on for nearly two years. American Jesuits put sustained pressure on the U.S. government, which did everything to obfuscate the issue and to protect the Salvadoran army and government while at the same time certifying human rights and continuing to grant high levels of military assistance.

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The BFEE must have donkey pictures of the DEMs. There's no other explanation for allowing turdballs like John Negroponte to roam free.

John Negroponte, Dirty Warrior

The Return of the Contra Gangsters

By JENNIFER ROESCH

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Clearly, Bush has no shame. First it was his friend Alberto Gonzales ­ the man who created the legal justification that led to the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib. He was rewarded with an appointment to the post of Attorney General. Then Condoleeza Rice was promoted to Secretary of State. Now he has tapped John Negroponte, currently service as the US "ambassador" to Iraq, for the newly created position of Director of National Intelligence. In an administration that rewards lies and promotes those who diplomatically turn a blind eye to torture and human rights abuses, Negroponte will fit right in.

In the next few weeks we are likely to hear a chorus of praise for Negroponte from the mainstream media and politicians. In recent years his reputation has been rehabilitated and today he is hailed as a seasoned diplomat and skilled negotiator. A quick review of his history tells a different story. Negroponte's career was made as the U.S. ambassador in Honduras. Some highlights of his tenure there include:

* Supervising the creation of a death squad unit (Battalion 316) that has been linked to the deaths and disappearances of hundreds of Hondurans;

* Crafting human rights reports that carefully exclude a pattern of torture and human rights violations covered by the entire Honduran media and later documented by the CIA;

* Brokering a steady stream of U.S. aid to Honduras in exchange for the right to use the country as a launching pad for the U.S.-backed Contra attack on Nicaragua.

This is a man who should have seen his career go down in flames when the Iran-Contra scandal broke out in the mid-1980s. Not only have human rights groups extensively documented his role in the "dirty wars" of Central America; the CIA has even compiled reports that could serve as the basis for a war crimes indictment. But Negroponte has never lacked for work and has been appointed to diplomatic posts under both Democratic and Republican administrations.

Most recently, when he was nominated for the position of ambassador to Iraq, both Republicans and Democrats in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee carried out Bush's request to expedite hearings and rushed Negroponte's approval through. At his Senate hearing on May 6, senators fell over themselves praising Negroponte as the best man for the job and confirmed him in a 95-3 vote. Joseph Biden, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's senior Democrat, told him: "It takes moral, political and physical courage for you to undertake this. We owe you a debt of gratitude."

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Your write! It was them commie fellers preachin' liberalation themology.

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