Name: John Dimitri Negroponte
Born: July 21, 1939 in London, England
Profession: Unknown
GW Bush Administration Position:
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Ambassador to the United Nations, 2001-2004
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Ambassador to Iraq, 2004-2005.
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Director of National Intelligence (2005–2007)
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Deputy Secretary of State (January 2007 - January 2009)
War crime charge(s):
- Crime against peace – planning and carrying out a war of aggression.
- Steered resolution through UN Security Council that Iraq must disarm.
- Complicity in the commission of a war crime--torture, ill-treatment of detainees.
Primary Association:
- Yale University: Brady-Johnson Distinguished Senior Research Fellow in Grand Strategy and Lecturer in International Affairs at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies
Secondary Associations:
- Vice chairman, McLarty Associates
99 Seventeenth St. NW, Ste 800 Washington DC 20006 Ph:202-419-1420
- Vice chairman, Covington & Burling, a powerful law firm which advises multinational corporations.
More Information:
Note:
“These people are being held. And they're bad actors. And as long as this situation continues, this war on terror continues, I'm not sure I can tell you what the ultimate disposition of those detainees will be1.”
"I want to say to those people: haven't you moved on2?" (Concerning criticisms that he covered up death squad activities when he was ambassador to Honduras)
1http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1183242,00.html
2http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/negroponte/laverty.html
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