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John D. Negroponte


Self Description

June 2008: "Ambassador John D. Negroponte is the Deputy Secretary of State, the Department of State’s second ranking official. Appointed by President Bush, he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on February 12, 2007, and was sworn into office by Vice President Cheney on February 13. As Deputy Secretary of State, he assists Secretary Rice in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy and functions as the chief operating officer of the Department. He coordinates and supervises U.S. Government activities overseas, represents the Department’s position before Congress, and manages key foreign policy issues on the Secretary’s behalf...."

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/80476.htm

January 2006: "Ambassador John D. Negroponte was sworn in as the first Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on April 21, 2005. Previously, he had been serving as United States Ambassador to Iraq since June 28, 2004. From September 18, 2001, until his appointment to Iraq, Ambassador Negroponte served as the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

From 1997 to 2001, Ambassador Negroponte was employed in the private sector as Executive Vice President for Global Markets of The McGraw-Hill Companies in New York.

From 1960 to 1997, Ambassador Negroponte was a member of the Career Foreign Service. He served at eight different Foreign Service posts in Asia, Europe and Latin America; and he also held important positions at the State Department and the White House.

Among his assignments, Ambassador Negroponte was Ambassador to Honduras (1981-1985); Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (1985-1987); Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (1987-1989); Ambassador to Mexico (1989-1993); and Ambassador to the Philippines (1993-96).

Ambassador Negroponte is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Diplomacy. He is a former Chairman of the French-American Foundation.

Ambassador Negroponte was born July 21, 1939 in London. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1960..."

http://www.odni.gov/negroponte.html

Third-Party Descriptions

July 2008: "The State Department cannot resettle in the United States about 25,000 Iraqi interpreters and other refugees who worked for the U.S.-led coalition over the next two years because of limits on the number of applications that can be reviewed, according to Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072403524.html

June 2008: "Top Bush administration officials are delaying a long-promised $11 billion arms package for Taiwan....Rice, for instance, has been urged by the State Department's East Asian Affairs bureau and Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte to forward an official recommendation to the president to issue the notifications, but she has not yet done so."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103281.html

November 2007: "In spite of his progress leading the Intelligence Community, though, there were rumors that Negroponte wanted to move back to the field in which he spent 37 years – the State Department and Foreign Service.[20] The rumors became official on January 5, 2007 when Negroponte announced his resignation as DNI and move to the State Department to serve as Deputy Secretary of State."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Negroponte

November 2007: 'This reduces but does not eliminate the possibility that directed assignments may be necessary,' Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte wrote in an e-mailed update. Filling the remaining jobs is still 'the Department's priority,' he said, adding that he is optimistic that more will volunteer.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/10/AR2007111001472.html

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Member of (past or present) American Academy of Diplomacy Organization Jan 13, 2006
Member of (past or present) Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Organization Jan 13, 2006
Organization Executive (past or present) McGraw-Hill Companies Organization Jan 13, 2006
Organization Head/Leader (past or present) Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Organization Jan 13, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Organization Executive (past or present) State Department/Department of State (DOS) Organization Jan 13, 2006
Representative to (past or present) United Nations, The (UN) Organization Jan 13, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Yale University Organization Jan 13, 2006

Articles and Resources

Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Jul 25, 2008 U.S. Can't Keep Up On Visas for Iraqis: Refugees in Danger After Helping Coalition

QUOTE: The Bush administration and the Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki have been slow to respond to the Iraq refugee problem, which involves nearly 5 percent of the population.

 Washington Post
Jun 12, 2008 Top U.S. Officials Stalling Taiwan Arms Package

QUOTE: Top Bush administration officials are delaying a long-promised $11 billion arms package for Taiwan, raising the possibility that the issue will be left for the next president, according to sources inside and outside the administration.

 Washington Post
Nov 11, 2007 Forced Iraq Postings 'May Be Necessary': Volunteers Fill About Half of Embassy's 48 Open Slots, State Department Says

QUOTE: But the plan to order diplomats to take posts in Iraq if enough volunteers cannot be found -- the first time forced assignments have been contemplated since the Vietnam War -- has been controversial within and outside the service.

 Washington Post
Mar 06, 2007 AT&T Whistle-Blower Outs Media

QUOTE: The journalistic back story to these NSA stories is an extremely revealing glimpse into how the nation's largest newspapers, which largely had little problem running poorly sourced and false stories about Iraq and WMD, sat on or buried stories that questioned this administration. Remember that the New York Times, which first broke the story of the wiretapping in December 2005, has yet to explain in any detail why it sat on the story for a full year after the government asked it to.

 Wired
Feb 28, 2007 New Light Shed on CIA's 'Black Site' Prisons

QUOTE: But Jabour's experience -- also chronicled by Human Rights Watch, which yesterday issued a report on the fate of former "black site" detainees -- often does not accord with the portrait the administration has offered of the CIA system, such as the number of people it held and the threat detainees posed. Although 14 detainees were publicly moved from CIA custody to the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, scores more have not been publicly identified by the U.S. government, and their whereabouts remain secret.

 Washington Post
Dec 03, 2006 Open-Source Spying

QUOTE: In the fall of 2005, [the D.N.I.] joined forces with C.I.A. wiki experts to build a prototype of something called Intellipedia, a wiki that any intelligence employee with classified clearance could read and contribute to. .... Is it possible to reconcile the needs of secrecy with such a radically open model for sharing?

 New York Times
Sep 08, 2006 The Long Intelligence Haul: Real reform doesn't take five years. It takes a generation.

QUOTE: there is near-universal agreement today that political pressure corrupts intelligence analysis...But overhauling U.S. intelligence to better prevent false negatives represents a much greater challenge.

 Slate
May 15, 2006 Negroponte Had Denied Domestic Call Monitoring: Administration Won't Comment on NSA Logs

QUOTE: ...USA Today divulged details of the NSA's effort to log a majority of the telephone calls made within the United States since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks....To many lawmakers and civil liberties advocates, the revelation seemed to fly in the face of months of public statements and assurances from President Bush and his aides...

 Washington Post
Jan 13, 2006 Corralling Domestic Intelligence: Standards in the Works for Reports of Suspicious Activity

QUOTE: The Bush administration is trying to set standards for how government agencies collect and maintain reports of suspicious activity because of concern that the agencies may be keeping inappropriate information on Americans while working to thwart terrorism with more extensive domestic intelligence...

 Washington Post
Apr 20, 2002 Israel Says It Will Allow a Fact-Finding Mission

QUOTE: ...Israel would be willing to have the United Nations send a representative to look into the Israeli military action in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.

 New York Times
Jan 06, 2002 The Rule of Law: Indispensable to a Wider War

QUOTE: ...the United States will have to show that its war effort continues to be not just moral, but legal -- in other words, that it is fighting to uphold the rule of law against terrorists who are trying to destroy it. How well America can convince the international community that it is acting within the law will be crucial to the level of allied support it can command worldwide.

 Washington Post