Posted on 12/17/2009 2:02:53 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
President Obama's recent nominee for ambassador to El Salvador was forced to withdraw her nomination to another diplomatic post a decade ago following concerns about ties to Cuba, raising red flags as her name heads to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee once again for approval.
President Obama's recent nominee for ambassador to El Salvador was forced to withdraw her nomination to another diplomatic post a decade ago following concerns about ties to Cuba, raising red flags as her name heads to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee once again for approval.
The White House announced the nomination of Mari Del Carmen Aponte last Wednesday along with a handful of other appointments. The selection has started to draw some attention given that former President Clinton nominated her for ambassador to the Dominican Republic in 1998, only to see the nomination fizzle after the foreign relations panel questioned her over her past relationship with someone who had apparently caught the attention of the FBI.
One former official with knowledge of that nomination said the committee started scrutinizing Aponte after learning that she had attended a party at the Cuban mission to the United Nations in New York City, and that she had a relationship with someone, Roberto Tamayo, who had raised concern at the FBI over "possible ties to the Cuban government" and "repeated trips there."
The former official said the matter "sure as hell" should come up this time around.
"I think it's a mistake to have someone who did not pass muster before to be nominated again," the former official told FoxNews.com. "It shows a disrespect to the process I think. ... Hopefully there'll be somebody on the committee who takes a sober look at the record."
According to reports at the time, a former Cuban intelligence
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“Obama Pick for Salvador Post Withdrew Prior Nomination Over Cuba Concerns”
One central agency is making the decisions of the world.
The vast, vast majority of our country’s inhabitants are honest, moral people.
The Obamaloon must work long and late to pick up the sleazebags.
All of them.
Please, let’s throw the bums out.
And resurrect the guillotine.
Another Communist surfaces.
The list, ping
Republican lawmaker renews call for Obama to fire the ‘safe schools’ czar
Good one. Thanks.
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