Why are no questions being asked of Negroponte regarding "death squad" style killings in Iraq? Especially when the same thing happened when he was Ambasador to Honduras under Reagan?
Bush named Negroponte to the new post of Director of National Intelligence, as suggested by the 9.11 Commission. One reason why I am not convinced at all that those on this commission were concerned about the safety of the American people. For John Negroponte has a dark past that is still being kept dark, and has now spread to Iraq. Doesn't it even give members of Congress pause in knowing already that Negroponte has been accused of knowing of torture and human rights abuses as Ambassador to Honduras? Doesn't it give them pause to now see the same style of "death squad" killings happening in Iraq as he is now Ambassador to Iraq?
During the years of the Reagan administration he was ambassador to Honduras, and was involved in what was arguably an illegal covert quid pro quo operation connected to the Iran/contra scandal, and he has also refused to acknowledge significant human rights abuses committed by the pro-US military in Honduras. Yet every single time his appointment came up before the Senate, he won easy confirmation. If that isn't a clear signal of the corruptness of our Congress, I don't know what is.
He has been accused of rigging a human rights report for political expedience, and findings seem to corroborate that accusation. How is that not unconscienable and illegal? The primary goal of the intelligence community is to provide policymakers with truthful information regardless of which way it leans. But there's reason to believe that Negroponte did just the opposite to suit circumstances. If that is then true, it is downright dangerous having him in this position, and I am truly in awe that no questions are now being asked of his current work in Iraq in light of the current violence there, and because of his past:
Consider this:
http://www.afrocubaweb.com/...
Excerpt:
by Sister Laetitia Bordes, s.h.
John D. Negroponte, President Bush's nominee as the next ambassador to the United Nations? My ears perked up. I turned up the volume on the radio. I began listening more attentively. Yes, I had heard correctly. Bush was nominating Negroponte, the man who gave the CIA backed Honduran death squads open field when he was ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985.
My mind went back to May 1982 and I saw myself facing Negroponte in his office at the US Embassy in Tegucigalpa. I had gone to Honduras on a fact-finding delegation. We were looking for answers. Thirty-two women had fled the death squads of El Salvador after the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero in 1980 to take refuge in Honduras. One of them had been Romero's secretary. Some months after their arrival, these women were forcibly taken from their living quarters in Tegucigalpa, pushed into a van and disappeared. Our delegation was in Honduras to find out what had happened to these women.
John Negroponte listened to us as we exposed the facts. There had been eyewitnesses to the capture and we were well read on the documentation that previous delegations had gathered. Negroponte denied any knowledge of the whereabouts of these women. He insisted that the US Embassy did not interfere in the affairs of the Honduran government and it would be to our advantage to discuss the matter with the latter. Facts, however, reveal quite the contrary. During Negroponte's tenure, US military aid to Honduras grew from $4 million to $77.4 million; the US launched a covert war against Nicaragua and mined its harbors, and the US trained Honduran military to support the Contras.
John Negroponte worked closely with General Alvarez, Chief of the Armed Forces in Honduras, to enable the training of Honduran soldiers in psychological warfare, sabotage, and many types of human rights violations, including torture and kidnapping. Honduran and Salvadoran military were sent to the School of the Americas to receive training in counter-insurgency directed against people of their own country. The CIA created the infamous Honduran Intelligence Battalion 3-16 that was responsible for the murder of many Sandinistas. General Luis Alonso Discua Elvir, a graduate of the School of the Americas, was a founder and commander of Battalion 3-16. In 1982, the US negotiated access to airfields in Honduras and established a regional military training center for Central American forces, principally directed at improving fighting forces of the Salvadoran military.
End of excerpt.
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And now this:
Beaten to death in Basra:
"When they took the cover off his body I could see his nose was badly broken," said Daoud Moussa, a senior Iraqi police officer. "The skin of his wrists had been torn off. The skin on his forehead was torn away. On the left side of his chest there were clear blue bruises. On his legs
I saw bruising from kicking."
http://informationclearinghouse.info/...
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Ex-Official: Iraq Abuses Growing Worse :
Human rights abuses in Iraq are as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein, as lawlessness and sectarian violence sweep the country, the former U.N. human rights chief in Iraq said Thursday.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/...
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Terrorist growth overtakes U.S. efforts:
Thirty new terrorist organizations have emerged since the September 11, 2001, attacks, outpacing U.S. efforts to crush the threat, said Brig.Gen. Robert L. Caslen, the Pentagon's deputy director for the war on terrorism.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/...
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Baghdad official who exposed executions flees :
Faik Bakir, the director of the Baghdad morgue, has fled Iraq in fear of his life after reporting that more than 7,000 people have been killed by death squads in recent months, the outgoing head of the UN human rights office in Iraq has disclosed.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/...
Other information on human rights abuses in Honduras.
http://www.gwu.edu/...
And now this:
http://www.amnestyusa.org/...
Just what the hell is going on? If this is anywhere near true, there is no going back for us now. How does anyone with a past like this keep getting confirmed over and over again? Especially when we see it happening everywhere he is sent? WHERE THE HELL IS THIS CONGRESS IN ASKING QUESTIONS? We truly do then have MONSTERS running our government.