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http://news.lp.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/clarke/clrk2rice12501mem.html Formerly classified Clinton-era report, attached to Clark’s memo, on the al Qaeda threat. http://news.lp.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/dec2000aqmem9.html Related Links: The War on Terrorism http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/us/terrorism/index.html 9/11 Commission Final Report http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/911finalrpt/index.html Terror-Related Cases http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/us/terrorism/cases/index.html http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0216-01.htm
February 10, 2005 Associated Press http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-650999.php BERLIN German prosecutors said Thursday they won’t open an investigation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other officials after a group of American lawyers filed a criminal complaint alleging they were responsible for acts of torture at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison. The complaint, filed in November by attorneys from the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, targeted Rumsfeld, former CIA director George Tenet and Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez the former commander of U.S. Forces in Iraq. http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-650999.php |
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Negroponte: Nominee for Baghdad Embassy, a Rogue for all Seasons · Negroponte pressed Powell to pressure Chile’s and Mexico’s weak-willed leaders to discharge their U.N. ambassadors over Iraq votes. Negroponte has a sordid human rights record in Honduras. A Cruel Joke: Negroponte, the arch authoritarian, teaching democracy to the Iraqis. Life under Saddam somewhat prepares you for the Negroponte era. Senate Foreign Relations Committee unlikely to closely scrutinize Negroponte nomination. Like the earlier nominations of Otto Reich, John Bolton and Roger Noriega, Secretary of State Colin Powell will have no trouble in describing this villain as an "honorable" man. http://www.coha.org/NEW_PRESS_RELEASES/New_Press_Releases_2004/04.20_Negroponte.htm How many times can I write the same piece about John Negroponte? Today George W. Bush named him to the new post of Director of National Intelligence. Previously, Bush had hired Negroponte to be UN ambassador and then US ambassador to the new Iraq. On each of those earlier occasions, I noted that Negroponte's past deserved scrutiny. After all, during the Reagan years, when he was ambassador to Honduras, Negroponte was involved in what was arguably an illegal covert quid pro quo connected to the Iran/contra scandal, and he refused to acknowledge significant human rights abuses committed by the pro-US military in Honduras. But each time Negroponte's appointment came before the Senate, he won easy confirmation. Now that he's been tapped to lead the effort to reorganize and reform an intelligence community that screwed up 9/11 and the WMD-in-Iraq assignment, Negroponte will likely sail through the confirmation process once again. His previous exploits, though, warrant more attention than ever. He has been credibly accused of rigging a human rights report that was politically inconvenient. This is a bad omen. The fundamental mission of the intelligence community is to provide policymakers with unvarnished and valuable information-even if it causes the policymakers headaches. But there's reason to believe that Negroponte did the opposite in tough circumstances. If that is the case, he would not be the right man to oversee an intelligence community that needs solid leaders who are committed to truth-finding. Rather than rewrite my previous work on Negroponte, I am posting below <AHREF="HTTP: www.thenation.com doc.mhtml?i='20040510&s=corn"'the article I did after Bush named him the viceroy of Baghdad. It's more relevant today than when it first appeared. But I doubt Negroponte's dark history will finally trigger a confirmation debate within the Senate. He has skated in the past; he'll likely do so again. Bush's New Iraq Viceroy And read Corn's May 10, 2004 magazine piece for more on Negroponte's http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040510&s=corn http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=2203 HYPERLINK "http://s0b.bluestreak.com/ix.e?hr&s=440456&n=thenation"by DAVID CORN May 10, 2004 issue Like dirty money, tainted reputations can be laundered, as the Administration fervently hopes in the case of John Negroponte. Now UN ambassador, Negroponte has been chosen by George W. Bush to be the first ambassador to post-Saddam Iraq. When Bush selected Negroponte to be his UN representative in 2001, Negroponte was one of several Iran/contra figures being resurrected by the Bush crowd. As Honduras ambassador in the early 1980s, Negroponte, a career diplomat, participated in a secret and possibly illegal quid pro quo in which the Reagan Administration bribed the Honduran government with economic and military assistance to support the contras fighting the socialist Sandinistas of Nicaragua. Perhaps more significant, while Negroponte served in Honduras, he denied or downplayed serious human rights abuses by government security forces. This past threatened his confirmation as UN ambassador. But 9/11 rescued Negroponte. At the time of the attack, his nomination was pending, and the Senate moved quickly to approve him. Bush's New Iraq Viceroy by David Corn ïÃââââââââââ†|
