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The Detroit News
April 27, 2018
A foreign policy commentator and Fox News contributor, Grenell was previously spokesman for the United Nations during the George W. Bush administration from 2001 to 2008, serving under four U.S. ambassadors: John Negroponte, John Danforth, John Bolton and Zalmay Khalilzad. In 2004, Danforth ...
WTOP
April 20, 2018
Among those signing the letter were six former CIA directors — Goss, John Brennan, Leon Panetta, George Tenet, William Webster and Mike Hayden and three former national intelligence directors — James Clapper, Mike McConnell and John Negroponte. However, many human rights advocates and ...
The Cipher Brief
April 18, 2018
The decision was also made over the objections and without the approval of Director Goss, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, and the White House legal advisor – all of whom were furious with him. The tapes were neither created nor destroyed on my watch but I told the president – who ...
New York Times
April 17, 2018
“Coordinated messaging by our government on matters as serious as these is very important, so it is best that an episode such as this one not be repeated,” said John Negroponte, a former ambassador to the United Nations. He added that he was confident that Ms. Haley “has absolutely no interest in ...
University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily
April 11, 2018
This event featured guests from outside the University, including Bill Kristol, conservative political commentator and editor at large at The Weekly Standard, Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress and John Negroponte, director of National Intelligence during the George W. Bush ...
Charlottesville Tomorrow
April 9, 2018
Weeklong celebration in Charlottesville with over 200 events showcases iconic innovators John Cleese and Dan Rather and inspires thousands of entrepreneurs and creators. The seventh Annual Tom Tom Founders Festival, a weeklong celebration of entrepreneurship, culture, and innovation, launches ...
In These Times
April 5, 2018
Elissa Slotkin, a DCCC-backed candidate in Michigan's 8th District, worked for the CIA in Iraq under John Negroponte before moving to George W. Bush's National Security Council and then Barack Obama's State and Defense Departments. Slotkin was an architect of the failed “surge” strategy in Iraq and continues to claim ...
The Asian Age
March 30, 2018
He was to have taken over from John Negroponte who, more than secretary of state Colin Powell, was the key hawk in the run-up to the occupation of Iraq in April 2003. For greater continuity in the theme partly scripted by him, he took over as ambassador to Baghdad. A key player in his team was Robert ...
BuzzFeed News
March 29, 2018
Those officials included the White House counsel to President George W. Bush, Alberto Gonzales; his successor, Harriet Miers; Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff David Addington; Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, CIA Director Porter Goss and CIA acting general counsel John ...
Al-Monitor
March 20, 2018
Sometime in late 2006, US Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte visited Israel. According to a security source speaking on condition of anonymity, at a meeting with the heads of Israeli intelligence at Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv, intelligence branch officers presented a small time bomb.
Socialist Worker Online
March 20, 2018
U.S. Ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte implemented the so-called "Salvador Option," which he helped develop during the Reagan administration in the 1980s when the U.S. backed death squads in Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua against left-wing movements and governments. Negroponte ...
NPR
March 13, 2018
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Ambassador John Negroponte, former director of National Intelligence and Deputy Secretary of State, to review Secretary Rex Tillerson's tumultuous tenure at the top of the State Department and the legacy he'll leave there. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now let's get reaction from a ...
The Charlottesville Newsplex
March 9, 2018
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- During the Tom Tom Founders Festival, there will be two panels discussing the current presidency through the lens of history. The University of Virginia Miller Center of Public Affairs and Tom Tom will bring together political leaders, journalists and scholars for the ...
Charlottesville Tomorrow
March 8, 2018
Powerhouse pundit William Kristol of the conservative Weekly Standard, Neera Tanden of the progressive Center for American Progress, former Bush 43 Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, and the Miller Center's William Antholis, Douglas Blackmon, and Nicole Hemmer will answer such ...
Consortium News
March 2, 2018
The U.S. ambassador to the U.N. at the time, John Negroponte, said when resolution 1441 was adopted unanimously: “There's no 'automaticity' and this is a two-stage process, and in that regard we have met the principal concerns that have been expressed for the resolution.” That is, the U.S. would intend ...
NPR
May 11, 2017
Steve Inskeep talks with former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte about President Trump's firing of James Comey, and his time working with Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: In the language of Washington, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is part of the ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 31, 1999
She also tells FP she's received financial backing from prominent Republican foreign-policy figures, including former President George W. Bush's national security advisor Stephen Hadley and his deputy secretary of state John Negroponte. Negroponte, who worked closely with Slotkin when he was ...
Virginian-Pilot
December 31, 1999
John Negroponte, then national intelligence director, said in January 2007 that Pakistan was “a major source of Islamic terrorism.” Terrorist Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of 9/11, was hiding in Pakistan, apparently under the protection of Pakistan's military or intelligence services, when he was killed by ...
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