Negroponte as US intelligence czar

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Subject: (Fwd) Negroponte as US intelligence czar
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:39:23 -0400
From: eleanor@raven1.net
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Hi -

This short essay by vigilante gang stalking/electronic harassment
target Dr. Allen L. Barker is so well written I'm sending it to our
friends in the Patriot broadcasting community:

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From: "Allen L. Barker" alb@datafilter.com
Date sent: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 18:13:34 -0400
Subject: Negroponte as US intelligence czar

[Negroponte either knew about the death squad operations
in Honduras and turned a blind eye or else he was
incompetent at his job for not knowing what was going on.
Everyone pretty much knows what the real situation was,
but few will come out and say it directly.

Regardless of that, Negroponte is now apparently headed to
be the US intelligence czar (after confirmation by the full
Senate). A man who turned a blind eye to partially
CIA-trained death squads is going to be in charge of 15
intelligence agencies. What is wrong with this picture?
Well, there is always the concern that the US is starting to
look more and more like the repressive oligarchies it used
to set up in Central and South America (sometimes after
toppling democratically elected governments).

So, what would death squads look like in the USA, as a
political repression "tool"? They would probably not look
the same as the death squads in Honduras -- at least not
at first. They would probably not involve rounding up
"dissidents" into concentration camps -- at least not at
first. The US has its own society and social constraints.
"Death squads" in the US have to be tailored so that US
society can pretend that they do not exist.

Death squads in the US would look like the current "mind
control" harassment system. US mind control operations
are extreme, technologically-based forms of
COINTELPRO-style harassment. This system has *already*
been tested on thousands (if not more) US citizens. The
system has *already* been designed and tailored so that it
can be denied and so that victims have no real recourse
and few effective ways to fight back. Obviously there is
no due process involved: it is judge, jury, and
executioner. The press has already demonstrated its
complicity in this US style of what is essentially a death
squad operation.

It is not a quick death, and it sometimes "only" involves
repeated psychological deaths rather than physical death.
But it is a form of protracted torture. To say it is
somehow not as bad is like saying that Alzheimer's disease
is not as bad as cancer because it leaves the body
relatively intact and takes longer. Such torture is like
being pecked to death, slowly, by a flock of diseased
pigeons. It is forced intimacy with some of the lowest
gutter-scum Abu Ghraib pervert types who exist on the
earth. It is incessant taunting and humiliation via
deniable high-tech methods. "Sleep management" methods
are also heavily used. This all in the "safety" of a
person's home, 24/7.

These torture-squad operations also include many of the
lower-tech cointelpro methods. Victims have their lives,
families, and careers slowly, systematically, and
sadistically destroyed. Their minds are deliberately
psychologically injured, repeatedly, and the stress is
beyond severe. If victims speak out about the crimes they
risk being ridiculed, smeared, "discredited," called
mentally ill, and possibly even forcibly detained via a
Soviet-style abuse of psychiatry.

So keep your eyes open. This is what "death squad"-like
operations in the USA look like right now. Whenever there
are long-ongoing acts of torture in a nation there is also
an infrastructure supporting those acts of torture (and
hence there are some "little Eichmanns" in addition to the
direct torturers and the higher-ups). Part of "supporting"
the acts of torture is denying that they take place at all.
That is actually the norm in societies of torture... The
US just has its own particular methods of torture, evolved
to fit in seamlessly with the current, evil US society and
its phony propaganda facade.]

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Panel clears Negroponte as US intelligence czar
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1321179,00050001.htm
Reuters
Washington, April 15, 2005|04:32 IST

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted on
Thursday to approve the nomination of John Negroponte to
become the first US director of national intelligence.

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John Dimitri Negroponte

Skull & Bones ~ CFR

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/qclub.htm

John Dimitri Negroponte. Born in London on July 21, 1939, just before the outbreak of the second world war, he was the son of Dimitri, a Greek shipping magnate, and Catherine. He grew up in England, Switzerland and New York, where his father settled. He became a product of elite American institutions, educated at Phillips Exeter prep school in New Hampshire and at Yale, before being accepted at Harvard Law School. Negroponte is connected to Britain's royal family and British intelligence through his wife, Diana Villiers. Diana's father was Sir Charles Villiers, a merchant banker who would rise to become chairman of British Steel. Villiers had a powerful social conscience.

THE QUESTION IS:

Technically, how and when did John Negroponte become a United States Citizen?
http://www.apfn.org/APFN/NEGROPONTE.HTM

Democracy Now Video:
Promoting the 'Ambassador of Torture': Bush Nominates Negroponte for Intel Czar
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/28/1449257
Video: http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2005/feb/video/dnB20050218a

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Senate committee approves nomination of John Negroponte as ...
San Diego Union Tribune - Apr 14, 2005
... national intelligence director, John Negroponte, was approved by ... Wyden questioned whether Negroponte had adequately ... of a national intelligence director, which
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MORE NEWS UPDATES:

Negroponte Nomination Goes to Full Senate

The nomination of the nation‘s first national intelligence director, John Negroponte, was approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, clearing the way for the full Senate to consider President Bush‘s pick.

The closed-door vote means the former Iraq ambassador and longtime diplomat could be in his new job this month. Negroponte‘s nomination has generated little controversy in Congress.

However, Sen. Ron Wyden

As part of an overhaul of intelligence agencies last year, lawmakers approved the creation of a national intelligence director, which the Sept. 11 commission had recommended.

The director is supposed to bring together the country‘s 15 spy agencies to improve coordination against threats that have evolved since the end of the Cold War.

The intelligence chief‘s organization is just forming now. Negroponte is working near the White House as officials look for office space and consider how to structure his staff. The House and Senate have given preliminary approval to Bush‘s request of $250 million to set up the operation and other intelligence-related projects.

The Senate committee also approved the nomination of Negroponte‘s deputy, Michael Hayden, now the head of the National Security Agency. The panel, which often operates in secret, did not release details of the votes on Negroponte or Hayden.

Skeptics of the legislation passed in December have warned that the powers granted to the intelligence director are ambiguous and may open the door for defense and intelligence officials to run around the new chief‘s authority.

At his confirmation hearing Thursday morning, Hayden told the Senate committee that he considers the powers laid out in the legislation a framework. He said that the intelligence director will have to build on the concrete use of his authority "early and often — and in actual circumstances."

Lawmakers, meanwhile, are recommending forceful action. "Setting the precedent of a strong

Negroponte is not a stranger to politics or the inner-workings of government. He has spent 40 years in U.S. diplomatic and national-security circles, most recently as Iraq ambassador from June 2004 until March.

According to a personal disclosure report filed last month, Negroponte sold investments that posed a conflict of interest with his ambassadorship, including holdings in General Electric, which is helping to rebuild Iraq. His disclosure report was not specific about whether he‘d have to shed any more of his portfolio.

Hayden, an intelligence veteran, has been in government for more than 35 years. Since 1999, he has headed the NSA, the government‘s highly secretive code-breakers and code-protectors.

http://www.obviousnews.com/breakingnews/stories/obviousnews-558490.html