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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 11:45 PM
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Negroponte: The hardest working person in US intelligence?
On many a workday lunchtime, the nominal boss of U.S. intelligence, John D. Negroponte, can be found at a private club in downtown Washington, getting a massage, taking a swim, and having lunch, followed by a good cigar and a perusal of the daily papers in the club’s library.

“He spends three hours there Monday through Friday,” gripes a senior counterterrorism official, noting that the former ambassador has a security detail sitting outside all that time in chase cars. Others say they’ve seen the Director of National Intelligence at the University Club, a 100-year-old mansion-like redoubt of dark oak panels and high ceilings a few blocks from the White House, only “several” times a week.
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Negroponte spokesman Carl Kroft takes serious issue with that portrayal.

“He’s the hardest working person in U.S. intelligence,” Kroft said. “He’s hard at work from the early hours of the morning to late every night. The job never ends.”

http://public.cq.com/public/20060303_homeland.html

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Greeby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 11:45 PM
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1. Well, that's the perk of being a Nosferatu
:eyes:
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yourout Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 11:47 PM
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2. The devils work is never done.
Organizing death squads is a very time consuming endevor.
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smtpgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 11:48 PM
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3. Maybe Negroponte
should take my job for a week.

Dealing with dumbshit assholes that can't figure out how to use email.

I wish I could swim and have a massage everyday.

Nosferatu it is
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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 03:27 AM
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6. "Dealing with dumbshit assholes that can't figure out how to use email."
My condolences

Sounds like Help Desk Hell !
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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 12:09 AM
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4. He spends all that time trying to wash the Blood of his hands
but it's Still there.
It's turned into an OCD and no matter how hard he scrubs
there's always more blood.




A history of oversight

Given the human rights records of the Honduran military and the Nicaraguan contras who set up shop in Honduras during Negroponte’s tenure as ambassador the early ’80s, he will have no moral standing as a public official who repudiates abusive interrogation techniques and brutal counterinsurgency tactics. Indeed, some cynics might suggest that’s one of the reasons Bush picked him.

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movonne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:00 AM
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5. Teaching new ways to torture....
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 03:31 AM
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7. This man should be in prison working hard making license plates
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