Negroponte to be named intel czar

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President Bush has chosen Iraq Ambassador John Negroponte to be the nation's first new national intelligence director, NBC News has confirmed.
Bush was to formally reveal his choice at a 10 a.m. ET ceremony at the White House.

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Ah, another layer of bureaucracy....I feel safer now.

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as well you should, additional layers of bureaucracy are there to protect us from ourselves and must never be used to protect those WE elect to create them.

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Very interesting Wikipedia information on John.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Negroponte

Including:

"He is a controversial figure because of his involvement in covert funding of the Contras in Nicaragua (see Iran-Contra Affair) and his covering up of human rights abuses carried out by CIA-trained operatives in Honduras in the 1980s."

Also:

"He is the brother of Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's MIT Media Lab."

(Now that WILL be convenient!!!)

Ya really gotta read up on this guy. He's certainly the one that should be trusted with our security and intelligence.

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Pretty sure we heard all we are going to when he was appointed ambassador to Iraq.

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squinney wrote:

Very interesting Wikipedia information on John.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Negroponte

Including:

"He is a controversial figure because of his involvement in covert funding of the Contras in Nicaragua (see Iran-Contra Affair) and his covering up of human rights abuses carried out by CIA-trained operatives in Honduras in the 1980s."

Also:

"He is the brother of Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's MIT Media Lab."

(Now that WILL be convenient!!!)

Ya really gotta read up on this guy. He's certainly the one that should be trusted with our security and intelligence.

Is there anyone you would approve of, Squinney? I mean right out the chute .. Bush announces an appointment, you agree?

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In the first term it seems like he at least tried to pick a few centrist but this time he is not even giving a pretense.

Having said that, is what she said not true?

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revel wrote:

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Having said that, is what she said not true?

Upon further review, taking her words at face value, it appears she believes that he "should be trusted with our security and intelligence." You are correct. Nemmind.

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Face value by too many voters in this country is what has gotten us in this predicument.

But, I'm pretty sure we both understand sarcasm, right Tico?

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http://cagle.slate.msn.com/working/050217/koterba.gif

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Here's what this guy thinks....

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Smart Intel Pick

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Well there's just another one of Poppy Bush's old cronies back in the driver's seat. Christ, if they could re-animate Ronald Reagan's corpse he'd probably be the next President (again). Didn't the USA manage to produce a single new political/diplomatic big wheel (apart from Condi Rice*) in the last deacade?

*Though I still think it might be Latoyah Jackson, has anyone actually seen the two of them together?

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