{"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":"

So King Bush has appointed the Torturer’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 death squads<\/a> and 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. 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. 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’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":"

So King Bush has appointed the Torturer’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...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t