[basil]

This is a new name to me. Does anybody know anything about him?

[zarf]

Does anybody know anything about him?

Where have you been? He's the ambassador to Iraq.

[OXENinFLA]

He was the Ambas. for the UN and is now the Ambas. for Iraq.

[cyncooper]

He was Ambassador to the UN in the run-up to the war. Very competent. Gravitas.

[kabar]

Negroponte is a career State Department officer. John Dimitri Negroponte (born July 21, 1939) (pronounced neg-row-pontee) is the current United States ambassador to Iraq. A career diplomat who served in the US Foreign Service from 1960 to 1997, Negroponte served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from September of 2001 until June 2004. As ambassador to Iraq, Negroponte oversees the largest American diplomatic facility in the world.

He is a controversial figure because of his involvement in covert funding of the Contras and his covering up of human rights abuses carried out by CIA-trained operatives in Honduras in the 1980s.

[deport]

Biography of
JOHN D. NEGROPONTE
United States Ambassador to the United Nations

John D. Negroponte was sworn in as United States Representative to the United Nations on September 18, 2001. Since 1997 Mr. Negroponte had been Executive Vice President for Global Markets of The McGraw-Hill Companies. On April 19, 2004, President Bush nominated Ambassador Negroponte to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq.  And on May 6, 2004, the Senate confirmed his nomination. From 1960 to 1997, Ambassador Negroponte was a member of the Career Foreign Service.  He served at eight different Foreign Service posts in Asia,

Europe and Latin America; and he also held important positions at the State Department and the White House. Among his more recent assignments, Mr. Negroponte was Ambassador to Honduras (1981-85); Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (1985-87); Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (1987-89); Ambassador to Mexico (1989-93); and Ambassador to the Philippines (1993-96). Mr. Negroponte is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Diplomacy. He is former chairman of the French-American Foundation. Ambassador Negroponte is a graduate of Yale University. He and his wife, Diana, have five children.

 

 

[Quilla]

Highlights of John D. Negroponte's resume

Personal: 64 years old, married, five children Education: Graduate of Yale University Languages: Greek, Spanish, French, Vietnamese

Work experience

1960: Joined U.S. foreign service 1981-1985: U.S. Ambassador to Honduras

1985-1987: Assistant Secretary of State 1987-1989: Deputy to
National Security Adviser Colin Powell in the Reagan White House

1989-1993: U.S. Ambassador to Mexico

1993-1996: U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines 1997-2001: Executive Vice President for Global Markets, McGraw-Hill Cos.

2001-present: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
. Source: Department of State

WSJ research

[bored at work]

thanks for asking that

[motomosanto]

Hey this is a very talented diplomat, very fluent in some foreign languages, among them Spanish. This is the right guy at the right place. There are just many threats to the US security from abroad. John may help extinguish those threats in places like Congo, where Tutsis and Hutus have exported their Rwandan national game (Tutsis hunting Hutus and Hutus hunting Tutsis into Eastern Congo) with all the side-effects involving the UN staff there and difficulties for US businessmen to operate in a decent and fair environment.

So John can do a good job. Access to strategic resources such as Congo's has always been important for the US and Congo's Homeland Security needs to be protected. There and and in any other places we need excellent intelligence and a guy like John to coordinte and supervise intelligence gathering and actions.

Don't forget, keep writing to secretary@state.gov to defend US and Congo's interests.

Motomosanto

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

This is a new name to me. Does anybody know anything about him He was Reagan's fixer in Honduras during Iran/Contra. Dems were dying to get him under oath when GW appointed him as ambassador to the UN, but Sept. 11 put the brakes on that. This will make for very interesting hearings.

[JonDavid]

He is a tough guy. He is from the old school. Why do you think President Bush placed him in charge of Iraq before their election?

[ruthles]

Negroponte was interviewed by the adolescent CNN reporter Campbell Brown. He was so gentle with her and explained the complexity of the situation in Iraq to her respectfully but almost like a parent to a child. (Which she is). He handled the interview with great finesse. I was really impressed with him.