BUSH BABY NEGROPONTE NEW INTEL DIRECTOR

Ah, Bush Baby John Negroponte continues his life long service as a Republican stooge by becoming the new Uber-Intel Director, or as I'll be calling him, America's Id. (Just a little Freudian pun for ya!) All you need to do if you want to hear how good a guy Negroponte has been is listen to Bush and his lackeys. In other words, you can read the mainstream press.

In fact, in this article from AP.org and MyWay.com, it's not until the last three paragraphs where some of this dude's shadier shit gets mentioned.

To find out some bad stuff about Negroponte, check out below:

Here's a good primer for those concerned about Negroponte compliments of the Foreign Police In Focus website. Here's a highlight:

Negroponte was the officer-in-charge for Vietnam at the National Security Council (NSC) under Henry Kissinger. In 1987, during the administration of George Bush the elder, Negroponte returned to the NSC to work under Colin Powell as deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs. Within two years, he was back in Latin America; Bush appointed Negroponte ambassador to Mexico, where he served from July 1989 to September 1993. There, he officiated at the block-long, fortified embassy and directed, among other things, U.S. intelligence services to assist the war against the Zapatista rebels of Chiapas.

Negroponte was the officer-in-charge for Vietnam at the National Security Council (NSC) under Henry Kissinger. In 1987, during the administration of George Bush the elder, Negroponte returned to the NSC to work under Colin Powell as deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs. Within two years, he was back in Latin America; Bush appointed Negroponte ambassador to Mexico, where he served from July 1989 to September 1993. There, he officiated at the block-long, fortified embassy and directed, among other things, U.S. intelligence services to assist the war against the Zapatista rebels of Chiapas.

Here's more about Negroponte's death squads compliments of the Spanish-language human rights website Equipo Nizkor. Here's a highlight:

John Negroponte was ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985. As such he supported and carried out a US-sponsored policy of violations to human rights and international law. Among other things he supervised the creation of the El Aguacate air base, where the US trained Nicaraguan Contras during the 1980's. The base was used as a secret detention and torture center, in August 2001 excavations at the base discovered the first of the corpses of the 185 people, including two Americans, who are thought to have been killed and buried at this base.

Here is an editorial predicting bad things for Iraq after Negroponte had been named US ambassador to Iraq compliments of Counterpunch.org. Little did author Ghali Hassan know that it would be America that he would soon be applying his expertise to.

There's plenty more to read about this dude. Have a look around the 'net but remember: just because you're not getting it from mainstream news doesn't make it right. Don't fall for the Fallacy of the Middle. Basically, the idea is that just because you assume the truth is somewhere in between the truth of the left and the truth of the right doesn't mean you're accurate. This assumes the right and left arguments are accurate in some ways when they aren't always (if ever).

Anyway, so read this stuff and realize that the while both sides are right with the facts, they may both be wrong regarding what he will do. Personally, I like to err on the side of going with the guy who hasn't worked with death squads, but that's just me.