Why Negroponte Got the Nod
Why Negroponte Got the Nod
This morning President Bush announced his decision to pull America’s lead man in Iraq, John Negroponte, and appoint him to be the new national director of intelligence. Though the White House claimed the delay was just President Bush trying to “get it right,” at least three potential nominees (Robert Gates, Sam Nunn and William Barr) turned the job down. The NDI will be the country’s quarterback on intelligence – coordinating and leading all 15 partners of the intelligence community.
Given that Bush has repeatedly told America that Iraq is the “central front in the war on terror,” and he thinks that Negroponte is serving with “distinction in Iraq,” why is he being pulled at such a critical juncture?
Negroponte’s most notable experience in intelligence is breaking the law in Honduras . Perhaps his strongest qualification to be the NDI is simply that he is confirmable. Though his nomination as ambassador to the United Nations was held up when several senators demanded answers for his actions (or lack thereof) in Honduras, after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, there was such a great need to have a consistent voice at the U.N. that Negroponte was able to fast-track through the confirmation process.
He was then confirmed again when Bush nominated him to be ambassador in Iraq, and so it’s expected he will be confirmed to this new role.
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Perhaps Negroponte was selected only because he was “confirmable,” as you suggest. What a coincidence, then, that he’s the ultimate yes-man offered the job everyone else has said “No” to. In short, i believe John Negroponte was chosen because he is pliable and a team player.
February 17th, 2005 at 7:21 pmi guess that you folks a beating a dead horse. given the list of past liars and pardoned criminals that are running this government, do you think that for one single moment that this admin give a damn about what you folks
February 18th, 2005 at 7:45 amwrite? we are now a one party system and unless the citizens wake up, we (and you) ain’t seen nuttin yet!
billjpa@aol.com
The appointment of Negroponte is the moral equivqlent of the appointment of Reinhard Heydrich to head the Nazi SD (Schiendienst-Security Service). The man belongs in the modern equivalent of Spandau Prison-if not Devil’s Island.
February 18th, 2005 at 12:17 pmWhile Negroponte is not my favorite guy, he is a very intelligent diplomat, and yes a team player, and yes a Bush Team Player…..that is not news…the next President will have his team players appointed. The problem here is not with Negroponte its will Thomas Kean, Congressman Lee Hamilton and some of the 911 Families member who suffered from cranial rectal inversion when they came up with this lousy arsine idea in the first place and then allowed the NID to become a political position.
Dewey Clarridge stop screwing around in California and get with the program……
February 18th, 2005 at 1:52 pmHow many people who protested U.S. military
involvement in Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua have been imprisoned in the
last four years?
How many now will be tortured “legally” under
the new law allowing torture of prisoners?
How many will die or “disappear” in the process?
February 19th, 2005 at 2:05 pm