"And this is surprising because..."
Posted on 12/17/2009 5:59:56 PM PST by upstanding
A leftist La Raza activist previously forced out of a U.S. ambassadorship for her close ties to a terrorist-sponsoring foreign government has been nominated by President Obama to a key administration post.
Mari Del Carmen Aponte, a former director at the extremist Mexican group National Council of La Raza (see the press release applauding her nomination) and the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, has been handpicked by Obama to be the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador. That means Aponte, an attorney and independent consultant, will represent the State Department in the civil war-ravaged Central American country.
In 1998 Bill Clinton nominated Aponte, who was a member of his transition team, to be U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic but she was forced to withdraw after news broke about her tight relationship with an agent of Communist Cuba’s spy agency. The island nation has appeared on the State Department’s terrorism list since the early 1980s for supporting designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations—from South America and Europe—and for harboring fugitives from U.S. justice, including domestic terrorists. Cuba’s government also maintains close relationships with other state sponsors of terrorism such as Iran and Syria.
On the heels of Aponte’s latest nomination, a popular news syndicate is rehashing the long forgotten story of her ignominious past. According to an intelligence memo obtained by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Aponte cohabitated with an agent of the Cuban intelligence service, known as DGI. The crucial intelligence memo questioned the lack of a thorough security check into Aponte’s background and alleged that Aponte was recruited as a spy for Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro.
In Washington deep pockets and powerful friends often make these sorts of damaging scandals go away, however. Aponte is a longtime close pal of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and she’s donated generously to Democrats over the years. That’s why soon she will get that cherished diplomatic post that has eluded her for a decade.
Andy McCarthy at NRO notes [ here ]:
The White House has announced that Mari Del Carmen Aponte will be nominated by the President to become the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador. Aponte is a former director of the radical Mexican organization La Raza and of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education fund. (More from Judicial Watch, here.)
This is the second time she's been proposed for an ambassadorship. The first didn't go so well. President Clinton nominated her to be ambassador to the Dominican Republic but, as detailed on Andrew Breitbart's Big Government, it turned out that she had "co-habited" with an agent of the Cuban intelligence service. In fact, a confidential U.S. intelligence memo alleged that she had been recruited to become a Cuban spy in her own right. The revelations caused her nomination to be quietly withdrawn ... whereupon she reportedly refused to answer questions from the FBI (saying that since she was no longer seeking an executive branch slot, she no longer needed to cooperate in a background security check). Now, despite that debacle, and heedless of the controversies stoked by Van Jones, Kevin Jennings, et al., Obama wants to press ahead with Aponte.
Maybe you don't buy my theory that the President is an Alinskyite radical, but I still think annointing him a neocon based on his Oslo performance may be a tad premature.
third article.
Nobama you are a TRAITOR! There, I said it.
ORLY? This site’s search function returned exactly one article, from several days ago.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but can she really do too much damage sequestered down there as ambassador to ES? Might be a good opportunity to catch a nasty, tropical illness as well.
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Ambiens calor tyrannis.
Just lovely. Why would such a person be in the government of the United States?
I’m not criticizing your post. I was pointing out to Nachum that we now have three independent sources for the story.
Impeachment !
How long can we take this?
"And this is surprising because..."
If Nachum wants additional verification, he can review the following:
Hispanic Bar Association Commends the Nomination of Aponte
Obama Pick for Salvador Post Withdrew Prior Nomination Over Cuba Concerns
La Raza Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education fund
Aponte is a longtime close pal of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
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The only thing missing is Sotomayer’s name so I’ll just toss it in there.
No problem. :0)
This “man” in the White House is not the president of the United States.
Insane. We have millions of decent Hispanic immigrants and descendents of immigrants who love this country...and Bambi and Hillary pick loonies who hate this country?
That must be a qualification for getting ahead in the New Improved Self-Hating Third-World Suck-Up US.
Or, more preferably, wind up in the middle of a firefight.
bttt
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