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Negroponte: Unfit to Lead
Corn, David | March 14, 2005 issue

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Criticizes the appointment of John Negroponte by United States President George W. Bush to be the director of the national intelligence service. Report that Negroponte will be given plenty of responsibility with limited authority; Criticism of former Central Intelligence Agency chief George Tenet for pandering to Bush regarding the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; Role of Negroponte as the U.S. ambassador in Iraq; Report that Negroponte suppressed information that was politically inconvenient when he was former President Ronald Reagan's ambassador to Honduras in the 1980s; Statement that Negroponte suppressed reports on human rights violations committed by the Honduran military.

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NEGROPONTE, John D.; INTELLIGENCE service -- United States; INTELLIGENCE officers; MILITARY intelligence; PUBLIC administration; BUSH, George W. (George Walker), 1946-; TENET, George, 1953-; REAGAN, Ronald; HUMAN rights violations; HONDURAS -- History -- 1982-; UNITED States
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