by Marjorie Cohn

Truthout

02/21/05

With much fanfare, Bush announced on Thursday his nomination of John D. Negroponte as the director of national intelligence. 'John's nomination comes in an historic moment for our intelligence services,' Bush proclaimed ceremoniously. Intelligence, he said, is now 'the first line of defense' in the war on terrorism. Bush failed to mention that when Negroponte was United States ambassador to Honduras in the early 1980s, he provided false intelligence to Congress about the Honduran 'death squads'...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022105B.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp