{"id":1942,"date":"2004-04-20T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-20T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2004-04-20T13:50:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-20T17:50:00","slug":"shadow-of-the-torturer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/04\/20\/13\/50\/shadow-of-the-torturer\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow Of The Torturer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So King Bush has appointed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunspot.net\/news\/local\/bal-negroponte1a.story\">Torturer&#8217;s Friend John Negroponte<\/a> as Ambassador to Iraq. While he was Ambassador in Honduras during the 1980s he shielded the Honduran military from fallout concerning their use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?num=100&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=lang_en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;safe=off&#038;c2coff=1&#038;q=john+negroponte+death.squads\">death squads<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?num=100&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=lang_en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;safe=off&#038;c2coff=1&#038;q=john+negroponte+torture\">torture tactics<\/a> to combat trade unionism, anti-Americanism, and other social movements judged by them to imperil their US-sponsored clandestine terrorist war against Nicaragua. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/usa\/story\/0,12271,1013789,00.html\">Negroponte facilitated a massive, illegal training and supply regime<\/a> by the CIA and other shadowy US agencies in direct contravention of several US laws forbidding such aid going to countries with consistent patterns of abuses of human rights. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Negroponte\">He collaborated with the death squads while lying about their existence to the US Congress<\/a>. How eminently diplomatic. Yes, all in all I think he&#8217;s the perfect choice as liason to oversee a new puppet Iraqi regime who will doubtless rely on his expertise in extreme counter-insurgency tactics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So King Bush has appointed the Torturer&#8217;s Friend John Negroponte as Ambassador to Iraq. While he was Ambassador in Honduras during the 1980s he shielded the Honduran military from fallout concerning their use of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}