President Bush and John Negroponte
Posted on 05/05/2006 10:08:03 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
Press conference at 1:45
Goss also reportedly said there was such "ambiguity" in the intel-reform bill that he didn't know what his official relationship was supposed to be with John Negroponte, the newly named director of National Intelligence.
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Reminds one of the complications of FEMA becoming subservient to Homeland Security. Our Congress has a lot to answer for - sort of their own version of IEDs planted everywhere in the Executive Branch.
Sen Pat Roberts on Special report now talking about this
Novak is convinced it's something nefarious, because nobody leaked anything to him.
A malicious insinuation at that, but at least you acknowledge this much.
But I haven't seen anyone post FACTS that are more likely to be related to a sudden resignation on a Friday afternoon by a guy whose name has cropped up in the news recently as being related to a burgeoning investigation.
FACT: You don't know that this resignation is sudden. The AP report names three possible successors, which is a strong indication that this has been in the works for awhile. Verbatim from the AP report:
Among those talked about as possible replacements are Bush's homeland security adviser, Frances Fragos Townsend; David Shedd, chief of staff to National Intelligence Director John Negroponte, and Mary Margaret Graham, Negroponte's deputy for intelligence collection.
FACT: There are multiple other possible reasons for Goss' resignation. The most like reason according to all the reports I've read and heard so far is that the job of CIA director is no longer what it used to be. Negroponte has essentially absorbed much of the scope of CIA director into his own position.
This is the norm. A high official resigns. A day or several days later his or her replacement is announced. Apparently thought has been given to who might be Goss' successor. Following is verbatim from the AP report.
Among those talked about as possible replacements are Bush's homeland security adviser, Frances Fragos Townsend; David Shedd, chief of staff to National Intelligence Director John Negroponte, and Mary Margaret Graham, Negroponte's deputy for intelligence collection.
2. You are right, there are lots of potential reasons and none of us knows the real reason. I'll be honest: its more fun to gossip about bribery and hookers than the other reasons.
I admire your honesty. All too often, people who knowingly and maliciously introduce poison to a thread feign innocence. (Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying you did that here. Someone else did. Merely drawing a comparison for purposes of highlighting your honesty.)
IMO, Negroponte's comments about the documents were taken out of context.
About Negroponte, President Bush recently appointed him to positions as Director of National Intelligence, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.. Bush spoke well of Negroponte at all of those announcements.
But there's much more to it than that.
Negroponte was Reagan's ambassador to Honduras. Negroponte was Reagan's Contra man. He was the key man in Reagan's successful Cental America policy. He lead the training of CIA trained operatives against the Sandanistas of Nicaragua. The left absolutely hates him for it.
Negroponte was appointed to other positions by Reagan as well as George H. Bush.
Negroponte and Honduras;
Wiki | Excerpt: From 1981 to 1985 Negroponte was the U.S. ambassador to Honduras. During his tenure, he oversaw the growth of military aid to Honduras from $4 million to $77.4 million a year. Critics say that during his ambassadorship, human rights violations in Honduras became systematic.
The previous U.S. ambassador to Honduras, Jack Binns, who was appointed by President Jimmy Carter, made numerous complaints about human rights abuses by the Honduran military and claimed he fully briefed Negroponte on the situation before leaving the post. When the Reagan administration came to power, Binns was replaced by Negroponte, who has consistently denied having knowledge of any wrongdoing. Later, the Honduras Commission on Human Rights accused Negroponte himself of human rights violations but his critics have failed, to date, in making those charges stick.
Negroponte supervised the construction of the El Aguacate air base where Nicaraguan Contras were trained by the U.S., and which some critics say was used as a secret detention and torture center during the 1980s. In August 2001, excavations at the base discovered 185 corpses, including two Americans, who are thought to have been killed and buried at the site.
Negroponte is suspected by some commentators to have known of human rights abuses carried out by CIA-trained operatives in Honduras in the 1980s. Records also show that a special intelligence unit (commonly referred to as a "death squad") of the Honduran armed forces, Battalion 3-16, trained by the CIA and the Argentine 601st Intelligence Battalion and Army Intelligence Service, kidnapped, tortured and killed hundreds of people, including U.S. missionaries. Critics charge that Negroponte knew about these human rights violations and yet continued to collaborate with the Honduran military while lying to Congress.
In May 1982, a nun, Sister Laetitia Bordes, who had worked for ten years in El Salvador, went on a fact-finding delegation to Honduras to investigate the whereabouts of thirty Salvadoran nuns and women of faith who fled to Honduras in 1981 after Archbishop Óscar Romero's assassination. Negroponte claimed the embassy knew nothing about the nuns. However, in a 1996 interview with The Baltimore Sun, Negroponte's predecessor, Jack Binns, said that a group of Salvadorans, among whom were the women Bordes had been looking for, were captured on April 22, 1981, and savagely tortured by the DNI, the Honduran Secret Police, and then later thrown out of helicopters alive.
In early 1984, two American mercenaries, Thomas Posey and Dana Parker, contacted Negroponte, stating they wanted to supply arms to the Contras after the U.S. Congress had banned further military aid. Documents show that Negroponte brought the two together with a contact in the Honduran armed forces. The operation was exposed nine months later, at which point the Reagan administration denied any U.S. involvement, despite Negroponte's introductions of some of the individuals. Other documents detailed a plan of Negroponte and then-Vice President George H. W. Bush to funnel Contra aid money through the Honduran government.
Negroponte also played a key role in trying to Democratize Vietname in the 60's and If I remember correctly he walked out of the Peace talks in Paris.
IMO, Negroponte is one of the good guys.
Yes.
Goss became a good transistion guy.
I didn't say he has. I said he all but gutted the job of CIA director. Most of the scope of the CIA director position has been absorbed into the job now held by Negroponte. This is neither surprising nor unexpected.
Pat Roberts Chairman of the Intel Committee said on Fox News this evening that the Armed Services Committee is getting the same briefings they are by the Intel committees.
The first woman is getting first hand knowledge, and that would include her in the potential leaker column.
BTTT+ Bump to the Truth!
I agree for Straw did more before to be booted , why 'today'?!
I think Tony asked him to yeppers
the scope of the CIA director position has been absorbed into the job now held by Negroponte
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That may have been the only way that the corrupt behemoth CIA could be relegated to subservient position. Whaddaya think?
We're getting everything but the top ticket, what kind of shakeup is this?
~Shakedown?!
I honestly thought when I heard there would be news, that it would be Rummy saying he don't want this stuff anymore
BUMP!!
President Bush and John Negroponte
I think it's likely, although the new super intelligence agency is just as subject to the same failures as was the CIA.
Good information, good post.
this is bad news, there is big trouble coming. it could be one of many things, none of them good.
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