Negroponte in trouble in Taiwan

[donsu]

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Time_Steamy_spy_scandal_at_State_0715.html


Time: 'Steamy spy scandal' at State Dept. as Nat'l Intel czar Negroponte operation is linked to Taiwanese spying case


A "steamy spy scandal" at the State Department is brewing as Time Magazine links an operation by US Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte to the case involving Taiwanese agent Isabelle Cheng and Donald W. Keyser, former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.

"Federal prosecutors say Keyser sent Taiwanese spy Isabelle Cheng, who at some point became Keyser's lover, long e-mails detailing his 'conversations with Chinese President Jiang' during Jiang's visit to President Bush's Texas ranch in 2002," according to a Time press release sent to RAW STORY. "Prosecutors say Keyser was caught lying to hide the affair and hoarding classified documents in his suburban Washington home."

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"The new filing could also raise awkward questions for Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Negroponte because Keyser’s wife Margaret Lyons is a senior cia official on loan in a sensitive post helping set up a new open-source unit of dni," write Timothy J. Burger and Adam Zagorin for Time Magazine."Negroponte declined to discuss Lyons’ dni role or whether cia material was compromised," according to Time and a "CIA spokeswoman said the agency 'stands by the decision' not to revoke Lyons’ security clearance."

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Last year, journalist Robert Parry who "broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s as a reporter for the Associated Press and Newsweek" said that President Bush's appointment of "Negroponte to be the first U.S. intelligence czar" along with "Elliott Abrams's promotion to be deputy national security adviser...marked the continued reemergence of officials tied to the darkest moments of Central American violence in the 1980s."
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there is a link for the full report

whatever Negroponte touches is criminal

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy . . . n/t

[hootinholler]

2. K&&R