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John Dimitri Negroponte: Confirmations Hearings and Debates

by Charles Judson Harwood Jr.

 2005 

To be Director of National Intelligence

Is he fit?

To be Director of National Intelligence?

A criminal liar? and criminal aider and abettor of liars? in a criminal conspiracy to lie?

So it appears, from government documents, which Congress has mostly concealed from itself and the public. And from government officials, whose testimony Congress does not want to hear. And from eye witness accounts, which Congress cannot conceal.

On this record, John D. Negroponte prima facie incited, ordered, aided and abetted, officers of the State Department, Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Department, to criminally lie to their own headquarters, and to Congress, in a criminal conspiracy, first to dissuade Congress, then to violate the laws of Congress.

On this record, John D. Negroponte is prima facie complicit in violent crimes by Honduras government officials and by the Contra army based there.

All in aid of a secret CIA/DoD war. Launched from Honduras in secret. Prohibited by the U.S. Constitution (for want of Congressional approval). Prohibited by international law (U.N. International Court of Justice, judgment, summary). A war of aggression, a tort, a prima facie international crime, the crime against peace.

I speak of his “service” in Honduras (October 29 1981-1985 May 30). And of Nicaragua.

On this record, John D. Negroponte is a safe and trusted pair of hands, to manage proliferating U.S. government criminal enterprises. And to lie about them. Especially to a Congress which wants to be lied to.

Like his circle of conspirators did about Iran Air Flight 655, when he was later in the White House, as Deputy National Security Adviser (1987-1989) to Colin Powell, telephoning the President, with the news. Constituting themselves members of a second prima facie criminal enterprise, the felony-murder, or manslaughter, of the mostly American victims of Pan Am 103, a promised, foreseeable, apparent, international countermeasure to the first criminal enterprise, that self-same conspiracy of criminal liars, who decided to lie — to protect themselves, instead of the citizens in their charge — and falsely deny responsibility, on behalf of the United States, thereupon legalizing an eye for an eye.

Demonstrating, it’s not only foreigners who have to worry about U.S. government criminal liars.

The families, friends, neighbors, of the 1500+ U.S. service wo/men killed in Iraq, and the 10,000+ maimed for life, they too can attest to that. As can every U.S. taxpayer, and their distant descendants, crippled by debt, from this lying war, feeding their expanding military shadow-state, from the plates of their needy.

And those citizens U.S. government criminal liars decided to poison, with their criminal munitions, they lied about, to hundreds of thousands of our soldiers, and their families. According to truthful {262kb.pdf} U.S. government officials {2682kb.pdf, copy}, whose truthful research, lying U.S. government officials, deeply complicit in a massive U.S. government criminal enterprise, decided to conceal, misrepresent, coverup.

Depleted uranium. The only weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq. Each one, atomizing 70% of itself, when used, into alpha radiating aerosols, a DNA-mutating and chemical poison, hundreds of tons of invisible, micron-sized particles of uranium oxide dust (U-238), wafting in the wind, and their beta and gamma cousins (decay progeny U-234 and 0.2% U-235), “billions and billions and billions” of them, we imported into Iraq, to poison our soldiers, and their progeny, attacking them, when they breathe (lodging in their lungs), when they eat (migrating through their gut wall, into their blood, to lodge in their organs), when they break their skin (infecting their blood and organs via wounds, cuts, abrasions). And to likewise poison the doomed men, women, children, progeny, of that land we blighted, for eternity.

A transgenerational catastrophe. A breath-taking, staggering, immense, war crime, and crime against humanity, surpassing even the Nazis, who confined their criminal killings to the living, not unborn generations, and mostly by quick and humane methods, not by slow, debilitating, lingering, “unnecessary suffering,” condemned particularly, as a separate, additional, war crime. Against expendable American and allied cannon-fodder, and Iraqis alike.

The reduced numbers of Iraqis, that is, who manage to survive their “liberation,” and permanent occupation {copy}, by a Great Satan, ensconced on a Green-Zone throne, disappearing billions of dollars of trust-fund money, smirking, from 106 military bases, to strong-arm demands of his oil and business clientele {detail, comment}, and his Zionist kin nearby. As many or most Iraqis view their fate. And most of the rest of the world do too.

Is he fit?

If you want to be lied to, he’s fit.

If you want him to wage crime on orders, he’s fit.

If you want him to thumb his nose at Congress, the Constitution, the laws, he’s fit.

• Gary Cohn, Ginger Thompson, “When a wave of torture and murder staggered a small U.S. ally, truth was a casualty. Was the CIA involved? Did Washington know? Was the public deceived? Now we know: Yes, Yes, and Yes.” (Baltimore Sun, Unearthed: Fatal Secrets, June 11 1995).

• Gary Cohn, Ginger Thompson, “Glimpses of the 'disappeared'” (Baltimore Sun, Unearthed: Fatal Secrets, June 11 1995).

• Gary Cohn, Ginger Thompson, “Torturers' confessions: Now in exile, these CIA-trained Hondurans describe their lives — and the deaths of their victims” (Baltimore Sun, Unearthed: Fatal Secrets, June 13 1995).

• Gary Cohn, Ginger Thompson, “A survivor tells her story. Treatment for a leftist: Kicks, freezing water and electric shocks. In between, a visitor from the CIA.” (Baltimore Sun, Unearthed: Fatal Secrets, June 15 1995).

• Gary Cohn, Ginger Thompson, “How a journalist was silenced” (Baltimore Sun, Unearthed: Fatal Secrets, June 15 1995).

• Gary Cohn, Ginger Thompson, “A carefully crafted deception” (Baltimore Sun, Unearthed: Fatal Secrets, June 18 1995).

• Gary Cohn, Ginger Thompson, “Former envoy to Honduras says he did what he could” (Baltimore Sun, December 15 1995).

• Frederick Porter Hitz (CIA Inspector General), Americo R. Cinquegrana (Deputy Inspector General for Investigations), “Selected Issues Relating to CIA Activities in Honduras in the 1980s” (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, 96-0125-IG, August 27 1997, 238 pages) and Supplement (October 23 1997, 5 pages), released October 22 1998 (about 70% redacted) {copy} {SuDoc: PREX 3.10:H 65x}. And see Honduras Documentation Project (National Security Archive).

• Sarah Wildman, “Contra Aide: W. Picks an Amoralist for the United Nations” (The New Republic, March 19 2001).

• Maggie Farley, Norman Kempster, “Bush's U.N. Pick Faces Battle Over Contra Role: Critics raise questions about John Negroponte's actions as ambassador to Honduras and his knowledge of a CIA-backed death squad” (Los Angeles Times, March 25 2001). “The sudden deportations of several former death squad members ... could have provided evidence for the hearings ... within a few weeks of Negroponte's floated nomination.”

• T. Christian Miller, Maggie Farley, Norman Kempster, Doyle McManus, Alex Renderos, “Cold War Stalks Bush's U.N. Pick” (Los Angeles Times, May 7 2001) {copy, archive}.

• Terry J. Allen, “Scandal? What Scandal? Bush's Iran-Contra appointees are barely a story” (FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, Extra! September/October 2001).

• Larry Birns (Director), Jenna Wright, Jeremy Gans, Matthew Tschetter, “Negroponte: Nominee for Baghdad Embassy, a Rogue for all Seasons” (Council On Hemispheric Affairs, April 27 2004, Memorandum to the Press).

• Jim Lobe, “Congress Ignores 'Dirty War' Past of New Iraq Envoy” (IPS: Inter Press Service, April 30 2004) {copy}.

• Anonymous, “Negroponte: The Right Man for the Job but for the Wrong Reasons” (Council On Hemispheric Affairs, February 17 2005, Memorandum to the Press).

• Peter Kornbluh, Laetitia Bordes, Andrés Thomas Conteris, interviewed by Amy Goodman, “Promoting the 'Ambassador of Torture': Bush Nominates Negroponte for Intel Czar” (Democracy Now!, February 18 2005).

• Ray McGovern, “Hail, Hail The Gang's All Here” (TomPaine.com, February 18 2005) {copy}.

• Gabriel Wildau, “FOX's Special Report downplayed concerns over Negroponte's questionable actions in Honduras” (Media Matters, February 18 2005) (links to 11 news reports).

• Anonymous, “Media Omissions on Negroponte's Record” (FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, February 22 2005) (11 news reports analyzed).

• Robert Parry, “Negroponte's Dark Past: The case against Bush's new intelligence czar” (In These Times, March 3 2005).

• Michael Dobbs, “Negroponte's Time in Honduras at Issue: Focus Renewed on Intelligence Pick's Knowledge of Death Squads in 1980s” (timeline) (Washington Post, March 21 2005). Oscar Reyes: “If they saved our lives, they could have saved a lot of other people’s lives as well.” (referring to Negroponte’s decision to secure his release from the Honduras government death squad, because the fame of this Honduran journalist attracted unwanted attention, and his wife Gloria, both kidnapped and tortured for a week, on July 8 1982, four months after the U.S. attacked Nicaragua from Honduras, launching a secret, covert, unlawful war.

• Scott Shane, “Poker-Faced Diplomat, Negroponte Is Poised for Role as Spy Chief” (New York Times, March 29 2005) {copy}. Lee H. Hamilton: “It takes courage and considerable gumption to say, ‘Mr. President, the intelligence does not run the way you’d like it to.’” Jack R. Binns: “I think he was complicit in abuses, I think he tried to put a lid on reporting abuses, and I think he was untruthful to Congress about those activities.” Leo Valladares Lanza: “I think he could have stopped all these assassinations and torture.”

• Peter Kornbluh, “The Negroponte File: Negroponte’s Chron File From Tenure In Honduras Posted” (National Security Archive, April 12 2005). 470 cables. Part 1: “392 cables and memos ... sought to undermine regional peace efforts ... CIA covert operations ... Nicaragua ... advice on how to rewrite a Presidential finding {75kb.gif} on covert operations to overthrow the Sandinistas ... back channel communications with then CIA director William Casey ... Conspicuously absent from the cable traffic, however, is reporting on human rights atrocities that were committed by the Honduran military and its secret police unit known as Battalion 316, between 1982 and 1984, under the military leadership of General Gustavo Alvarez, Negroponte’s main liaison with the Honduran government.” “The Negroponte File: Additional Papers Posted on "Special Project"” (update, April 12 2005). Part 2: 78 cables. “A virtual day-to-day record of Negroponte’s unique tenure as ambassador, as he secured Honduran military, logistical and political support for the controversial CIA paramilitary campaign to overthrow the Sandinista government.” (Nicaragua).

• Michael Dobbs, “Papers Illustrate Negroponte's Contra Role: Newly Released Documents Show Intelligence Nominee Was Active in U.S. Effort” (Washington Post, April 12 2005) {copy}. “Shakespeare’s play ‘Julius Caesar’ ... the ambassador quoted from the play to illustrate the relationship between the Honduran and U.S. governments: