Mr. Shaman
10-27-2005, 05:18 AM
"Bolstering the growth of democracy in other countries has joined countering terrorism and preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction as the top strategic missions for the nation's intelligence agencies, according to a document released yesterday by Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/26/AR2005102601934.html).
Titled "The National Intelligence Strategy of the United States," the publication publicly sets out for the first time the strategic missions laid out by the director of national intelligence for the country's 15 agencies.
Negroponte said the strategic mission to "bolster the growth of democracy and sustain peaceful democratic states" is aimed at providing policymakers with information to alert them as to how countries are progressing toward democracy, allowing them to understand the "success or failure to achieve good governance." Although he did not mention Iraq, it would appear that the need to understand that country's progress would fit his description.
Negroponte said mission priorities as described in the document have not changed for the agencies, but two former senior intelligence officials said yesterday one involving democracy appeared new.
During the Cold War, the CIA carried out covert activities in many countries, including some in Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe, to support democratic leaders and political parties that opposed communist governments.
A senior intelligence official, who appeared with Negroponte at a briefing for reporters but asked not to be identified, said the democracy mission statement does not describe such covert operations but only outlines collection and analysis of so-called soft power intelligence in contrast to the threat-based intelligence that has been emphasized in the past."
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Hmmmmmm.......I wonder if Negroponte's version of "success or failure to achieve good governance" (http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/38/9448) has changed.....at all? :rolleyes:
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"John Negroponte, slated to become the first U.S. ambassador to Iraq in more than a decade, faced some tough questions at his April 27 Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing.
Except they didn't come from any senators.
Midway through the hearing a man in the audience stood up.
"Ask him about Battalion 3-16," he shouted. "Ask him about the death squads in Honduras that he supported." Capitol police escorted the agitator out of the hearing room. The man, Andrés Thomas Conteris, Latin America program director for Nonviolence International, was detained briefly and then released.
"I apologize for the interruption," committee chairman Richard Lugar (R-ID) told Negroponte, though his contrition seemed misplaced. Lugar and his colleagues had been nothing if not polite.
What a difference three years, and a war in Iraq, makes (http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/washington/wnb042804.htm). "
:mad:
Titled "The National Intelligence Strategy of the United States," the publication publicly sets out for the first time the strategic missions laid out by the director of national intelligence for the country's 15 agencies.
Negroponte said the strategic mission to "bolster the growth of democracy and sustain peaceful democratic states" is aimed at providing policymakers with information to alert them as to how countries are progressing toward democracy, allowing them to understand the "success or failure to achieve good governance." Although he did not mention Iraq, it would appear that the need to understand that country's progress would fit his description.
Negroponte said mission priorities as described in the document have not changed for the agencies, but two former senior intelligence officials said yesterday one involving democracy appeared new.
During the Cold War, the CIA carried out covert activities in many countries, including some in Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe, to support democratic leaders and political parties that opposed communist governments.
A senior intelligence official, who appeared with Negroponte at a briefing for reporters but asked not to be identified, said the democracy mission statement does not describe such covert operations but only outlines collection and analysis of so-called soft power intelligence in contrast to the threat-based intelligence that has been emphasized in the past."
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Hmmmmmm.......I wonder if Negroponte's version of "success or failure to achieve good governance" (http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/38/9448) has changed.....at all? :rolleyes:
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"John Negroponte, slated to become the first U.S. ambassador to Iraq in more than a decade, faced some tough questions at his April 27 Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing.
Except they didn't come from any senators.
Midway through the hearing a man in the audience stood up.
"Ask him about Battalion 3-16," he shouted. "Ask him about the death squads in Honduras that he supported." Capitol police escorted the agitator out of the hearing room. The man, Andrés Thomas Conteris, Latin America program director for Nonviolence International, was detained briefly and then released.
"I apologize for the interruption," committee chairman Richard Lugar (R-ID) told Negroponte, though his contrition seemed misplaced. Lugar and his colleagues had been nothing if not polite.
What a difference three years, and a war in Iraq, makes (http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/washington/wnb042804.htm). "
:mad: