[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [Peace&Justice] Negroponte & "Good Intelligence"

[Morton K.Brussel]

This is a useful run-down on Negroponte. Here, we have a typical 
(false) convergence between right and left.  --mkb

The complete  article is at:
> http://rightweb.irc-online.org/analysis/2005/0504negroponte.php

> April 8, 2005
>
> Negroponte and the CIA’s Eclipse
> Rest Assured--We Will Now Have “Good Intelligence”
> By Tom Barry
>
>  As a practitioner of “strategic intelligence,” John Negroponte for 
> four decades has focused not on truth but on victory. Typical of other 
> hawks, Negroponte blames the defeat of South Vietnam on the liberals 
> and moderates in Washington--not on any misguided notion of U.S. 
> national security or self-deception by the “war party” in U.S. 
> government.
>   
>  But Negroponte has presided over numerous short-term victories, such 
> as deceiving the world about Iraq’s purported ties with terrorism and 
> its mass destruction weapons, crushing the leftist guerrilla and 
> popular movements in Central America in the 1980s, and implementing 
> NAFTA and the “Washington Consensus” in Mexico. Problem is that they 
> were Pyrrhic victories at best. Any intelligence worth its name would 
> better describe Negroponte’s history of representing U.S. interests as 
> a series of wrong turns, dead ends, and deadly collisions. The U.S. 
> Senate should be prepared to accept responsibility for future foreign 
> policy defeats if it confirms Negroponte as the director of national 
> intelligence.
>
> Tom Barry is policy director of the International Relations Center 
> (IRC), online at http://www.irc-online.org.
>
> See new Peace & Justice analysis online at:
> http://rightweb.irc-online.org/analysis/2005/0504negroponte.php
>
> With printer-friendly PDF version at:
> http://rightweb.irc-online.org/pdf/0504negroponte.pdf
>
> For more analysis of the right’s intelligence agenda see IRC’s report 
> and profiles:
>
> Basic Instincts, "Not the Truth: Iraq War Product of Neocon Philosophy 
> of Intelligence"
> http://rightweb.irc-online.org/analysis/2004/0402pi.php
>
> A Philosophy of Intelligence: Leo Strauss and Intelligence Strategy
> http://rightweb.irc-online.org/analysis/2004/0402nsai.php
>
> Right Web of Intelligence Reformers
> http://rightweb.irc-online.org/analysis/2004/0402rwoir.php
>
> A History of Threat Escalation: Remembering Team B
> http://rightweb.irc-online.org/analysis/2004/0402teamb.php
>
> Decentralizing U.S. Intelligence: Office of Special Plans
>  http://rightweb.irc-online.org/analysis/2004/0402osp.php
>
> Right Web Profile: John Negroponte
> http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/negroponte/negroponte.php
>
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