According to a detailed investigation the Baltimore Sun did in 1995, Negroponte covered up some of the most grotesque human rights abuses imaginable.
The CIA organized, trained, and financed an army unit called Battalion 316, the paper said.
Its specialty was torture. And it kidnapped, tortured, and killed hundreds of Hondurans, the Sun reported. It "used shock and suffocation devices in interrogations. Prisoners often were kept naked and, when no longer useful, killed and buried in unmarked graves."
The U.S. embassy in Honduras knew about the human rights abuses but did not want this embarrassing information to become public, the paper said.
Negroponte, who speaks five languages and has held official posts in eight countries, served as a member of President Reagan's National Security Council from 1987-1989 after serving as the U.S. ambassador to Honduras.
Wyden said Negroponte's time in Honduras is the reason why he voted against the nominee. The senator said Negroponte was too evasive at his confirmation hearing last week, inadequately reported human rights abuses by death squads in Honduras and aided Contra rebels during the fight between the guerrillas and the Sandinista government in neighboring Nicaragua.
"I believe the record of the ambassador's service there is particularly telling in terms of his judgment and his willingness to confront difficult facts, which I believe are two key requirements for the director of national intelligence," Wyden said.
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What about us braindead slobs?
You'll be given kooshy jobs...
Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!
But Main Street's still all cracked and broken!
Sorry mom the mob has spoken
Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!
Mono... D'oh!
Lol! Yeah, probably. The fan worked fine on delivery, it just died right after warranty expired. Isn't that always the case? I thought there was once a Garfield comic strip about that aspect of Murphy's Law.
It's just marketing fluff for sure.
I've bought Monarch computers before, usually on the value-end for simple workstations. They held up fairly well. But there was always some small problem like a CD burner never worked on a new system, or the CPU fan would die and nuke the CPU. I'm sure they love you plugging their products on such a major website. Did you disclose if you work for them or not?
Personally, I find that the dot-com dream of working for a huge company with all kinds of benefits is gone. All those jobs are going overseas as we have all have reluctantly admitted over the past year or so.
However, this is not the entire case. I find that the market for "renegade" IT folks (The OSS & Linux evangelists) in small-biz shopes is quite high. And they don't have the time, patience, resources, or confidence to bother with contracting work overseas.
It's the little shops where a renegade can make the most difference, prove their value, and become... *gasp* a CAREER employee. Use your grassroots techie knowhow and keep their heads above water, and they'll keep you on. Ah... Symbiosis.
Probably are several counter-examples, but it has worked for me, and I'm better off than if ever I had joined any of those l33t crack-shot developer teams.
I encourage you to also check out InfoWars as well as Prison Planet, or any number of related sites. Most of these things that come up in YRO segments here on slashdot have been predicted or commented on weeks or months in advance by these folks.
A healthy dose of paranoia or cold hard facts, you be the judge. But at any rate, they do their best to avoid speculation and point directly to the house & senate bills and underscore text of scary things like the Patriot Act. Much like Slashdot they are always linking to supporting stories from AP, Reuters, Washington post, etc.
But in the words of Reading Rainbow's beloved host LeVar Burton: "You don't have to take my word for it."
*Dons his Ring of Protection from Flame and wields the Troll Cleaver*
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Negroponte, a Torturer's Friend
According to a detailed investigation the Baltimore Sun did in 1995, Negroponte covered up some of the most grotesque human rights abuses imaginable. The CIA organized, trained, and financed an army unit called Battalion 316, the paper said. Its specialty was torture. And it kidnapped, tortured, and killed hundreds of Hondurans, the Sun reported. It "used shock and suffocation devices in interrogations. Prisoners often were kept naked and, when no longer useful, killed and buried in unmarked graves." The U.S. embassy in Honduras knew about the human rights abuses but did not want this embarrassing information to become public, the paper said.
Bush to Tap Negroponte as Intel Director
Negroponte, who speaks five languages and has held official posts in eight countries, served as a member of President Reagan's National Security Council from 1987-1989 after serving as the U.S. ambassador to Honduras. Wyden said Negroponte's time in Honduras is the reason why he voted against the nominee. The senator said Negroponte was too evasive at his confirmation hearing last week, inadequately reported human rights abuses by death squads in Honduras and aided Contra rebels during the fight between the guerrillas and the Sandinista government in neighboring Nicaragua. "I believe the record of the ambassador's service there is particularly telling in terms of his judgment and his willingness to confront difficult facts, which I believe are two key requirements for the director of national intelligence," Wyden said.
Wait until you discover that they invested in or staffed several of our domestic electronic voting machine firms. *cough* Diebold *cough*
... What about us braindead slobs? You'll be given kooshy jobs ...
Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!
But Main Street's still all cracked and broken!
Sorry mom the mob has spoken
Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!
Mono... D'oh!
Lol! Yeah, probably. The fan worked fine on delivery, it just died right after warranty expired. Isn't that always the case? I thought there was once a Garfield comic strip about that aspect of Murphy's Law. It's just marketing fluff for sure.
I've bought Monarch computers before, usually on the value-end for simple workstations. They held up fairly well. But there was always some small problem like a CD burner never worked on a new system, or the CPU fan would die and nuke the CPU. I'm sure they love you plugging their products on such a major website. Did you disclose if you work for them or not?
Personally, I find that the dot-com dream of working for a huge company with all kinds of benefits is gone. All those jobs are going overseas as we have all have reluctantly admitted over the past year or so.
However, this is not the entire case. I find that the market for "renegade" IT folks (The OSS & Linux evangelists) in small-biz shopes is quite high. And they don't have the time, patience, resources, or confidence to bother with contracting work overseas.
It's the little shops where a renegade can make the most difference, prove their value, and become... *gasp* a CAREER employee. Use your grassroots techie knowhow and keep their heads above water, and they'll keep you on. Ah... Symbiosis.
Probably are several counter-examples, but it has worked for me, and I'm better off than if ever I had joined any of those l33t crack-shot developer teams.
I encourage you to also check out InfoWars as well as Prison Planet, or any number of related sites. Most of these things that come up in YRO segments here on slashdot have been predicted or commented on weeks or months in advance by these folks.
A healthy dose of paranoia or cold hard facts, you be the judge. But at any rate, they do their best to avoid speculation and point directly to the house & senate bills and underscore text of scary things like the Patriot Act. Much like Slashdot they are always linking to supporting stories from AP, Reuters, Washington post, etc.
But in the words of Reading Rainbow's beloved host LeVar Burton: "You don't have to take my word for it."
*Dons his Ring of Protection from Flame and wields the Troll Cleaver*