Negroponte has ZERO experience in Intel and National Security..........

[ElsewheresDaughter]

why would he even be considered for such an important job never mind appointed?...WTF!!!! he is a caereer diplomat NOT an intel czar

God help America

[CWebster]

1. Actually, he is a war criminal

the perfect choice for Bush junta.

[bullimiami]

2. he knows how to rig elections

create social unrest and disturbance.
he knows how to run a black cia operation to control a country from the shadows and he knows how to kill , without mercy or conscience, those who stand in the way of his goals.

so for bushco he is perfect for the job.

[Blue_Roses]

10. and this is what makes it so scarey

but considering this administration's track record it doesn't surprise me that this was the choice.

[hlthe2b]

3. NHS is now staffed with those who have no worker protections and can

be dismissed for disloyalty or whistle blowing with nary a whimper. So what kind of people do you think that scenario attracts?

Now we put in Negroponte, who has shown a total indifference to democracy, civil and human rights or the rule of law. God, help us.

[BelizeGirl165]

4. Agree. But he'll be confirmed just like

Rice and Gonzalez. Let's face it, this president gets whomever he wants. There'll be some questions but I think he'll be confirmed, what do you guys think??

[DainBramaged]

5. Having ZERO experience is the point

Wouldn't want to tell the Boy King anything too difficult now, would ya?

[Edgewater_Joe]

6. ... but he has lots of experience with paramilitary repression

Which is why we're gonna have to go to the mattresses on this one.

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. Actually, the misperception is that he is a diplomat.

He's been point man for the CIA, for the School of the Americas, for contra/death-squad connections. He's all about black-ops intelligence operations.

As you said,

God help America.

[gottaB]

17. yup

I was disappointed by the way he sailed into the Iraq Ambassadorship.

[charlie]

8. Bush is making his move

He's institutionalizing Republican power by appointing cutthroats. These brand new offices will carry the imprint of Dubya's low men for years. Chertoff (originally Kerik!) and Negroponte will mold their depts into GOP fiefdoms, and Gonzales will have their backs for whatever they want to do. Somewhere J Edgar Hoover is smiling.

[Julius Civitatus]

14. It's more serious than that

Bush is legitimizing behavior that is deemed criminal by the international community. Since his appointment by the Supreme Court, Bush has rehabilitated dozens of criminals, liars, traitors, and cheats that --if Poppy had not pardoned-- would have been doing lots of hard time.

Kissinger's "realpolitik" is a naive children's game compared to what the strauss-cons are doing in our name.

[charlie]

15. Oh, don't I know it

Reich, Negroponte, Poindexter, Abrams, Henry Fucking Kissinger!... it's been a veritable parade of resurrected ghouls. We should've listened to Larry Walsh and bagged those fuckers long ago.

[Padraig18]

9. Most career diplomats ARE spies.

Google 'Negroponte' and 'Honduran death squads' or 'Nicaraguan contras' and tell me the man has no intelligence experience. He has plenty, and it's all the wrong kind.

[CWebster]

11. So will the Dems give 2 hour speeches against him

itemizing all the reasons they should convict him rather than endorse him, and then fall in line again and claim to have to hold their fire and conserve their fight for the next big battle over the next hill.

I have to hand it to Kennedy--he never waits.

Wonder what Mr Iran-Contra foe, John Kerry, will have to say?

Speak now...

[Julius Civitatus]

12. Yes, but he has lots of experience with death squads...

... rape rooms, the annihilation of complete villages, and the destruction of evidence of illegal funding for para-military contras.

He's perfect for anything the Bush administration throws at him!

[slor]

13. Can you say Iraq-Contra...

this asswipe fits the bill for the chimp well.

[Benbow]

16. That means Negroponte is not going to be US Ambassador to Baghdad

I guess. Is this because the US is reported to be "scaling down" the proposed size of its embassy in Baghdad (originally planned, post Iraq war, to be the largest in the world)? Or something else?

It occurs to me that Iraqis will be very relieved, if this is the case: the US - and not Iraq - gets Negroponte.

[charlie]

18. FWIW

There's a line item appropriation of $660 million for the Baghdad embassy in Bush's $82 billion request. If that won't build the world's largest embassy, then the cost of the original plans must be terrifying.

[RaleighNCDUer]

23. Great. So now we can have death squads in Missouri instead

of Mosul.

Edit --

BTW, welcome to DU!

[DemocracyInaction]

19. Always remember that Bush was pushed into this overhaul of

the agencies and implementing 9/11 Commission recommendations and even having a goddamn 9/11 commission. But then the light bulb went on. My God, just like we used 9/11 to invade Iraq for oil they figured they could now use the services of all the branches to keep their Mafia in power forever. They can turn all this against the citizens of the US in total secrecy while we idiots cheer and think we are "hunting down the bad terrorists". The terrorists they want to eliminate are those who oppose right wing Republicans.

[realFedUp]

20. He must have been bored by the restaurants inside the Green Zone

poor dear.

[goodhue]

21. He is no mere diplomat

He ran covert ops in latin america in the 80s

[goodhue]

22. Our Man in Honduras

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14485

[dogindia]

24. alterman blog today

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/

Back in January 1982, the Reagan administration was desperate to cover-up evidence of a horrific massacre undertaken by U.S. supported military forces in El Salvador, in the village of El Mozote in the province of Morazan, whom the U.S. was funding and training.  The massacre was reported in The New York Times and The Washington Post by Raymond Bonner, and Alma Guillermoprieto, respectively, along with Susan Meiselas.  As the reports appeared on the eve of Congressional hearings on funding for the Salvadoran killers, administration officials, like Elliott Abrams, sought to discredit the reports with McCarthyite accusations, and were supported by their allies in the conservative punditocracy—which, was just a fraction of its current size and scope.  They succeeded and the funding went through, in part due to the cooperation of then-Ambassador to Honduras, John Negroponte.  The gruesome details of the massacre were later excavated, journalistically, by reporter Mark Danner.  What follows is drawn from When Presidents Lie:

[susu369]

25. Another bald head for bu$h* to rub?

Sorry, I know it's a serious subject - couldn't help myself.

[DistantWind88]

26. AF Lt Gen Mike Hayden is going to be Negroponte's deputy