Posted on 12/17/2009 4:04:56 PM PST by The Big Feed
We all knew Obama winning the election would be bad. But did any of you really believe it could be this bad? Every day is just another astounding move of stupidity, treason, or both. Witness:
If you were president of the United States, would you hire an alleged former spy for Fidel Castro to be ambassador to El Salvador, a country teetering on the brink of hard-core socialism? President Obama just did.
On Dec. 9, Obama nominated Mari Del Carmen Aponte to be ambassador to El Salvador, despite the fact that in the late 1990s, the FBI discovered that she was working with Cuban intelligence officers. According to Insight Magazine, "When the FBI eventually questioned her about her involvement with Cuban intelligence, she reportedly refused to cooperate."
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Surprised by this? No, not at all.
This POS has got to go.
I gotta tell you I am surprised by the sheer speed of his treason. But looking at it logically, I suppose if I were hell bent on destroying the country, I’d slide all these shenanigans under the economic disaster and healthcare radar as he is doing. Folks this is bad. Just really really bad.
One more.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-announces-more-key-administration-posts-12909
“”Mari Del Carmen Aponte, Nominee for Ambassador to the Republic of El Salvador, Department of State
Mari Del Carmen Aponte is currently an attorney and independent consultant with Aponte Consulting. From 2001-2004, Ms. Aponte was the Executive Director of the Puerto Rican Federal Affairs Administration (PRFAA). Prior to that, she practiced law for nearly twenty years with Washington D.C. based law firms. Ms. Aponte also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Council of La Raza and the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. She is also a member of the Board of the University of the District of Columbia and Rosemont College. She served as president of the Hispanic National Bar Association; the Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia; and is a member of the District of Columbia Judicial Nominations Commission. In 2005, she was also elected to the Board of Directors of Oriental Financial Group (NYSE-OFG). In 1979, as a White House Fellow, Ms. Aponte was Special Assistant to the United States Housing and Urban Development Secretary Moon Landrieu. Ms. Aponte has a B.A. in Political Science from Rosemont College, a M.A. in Theatre from Villanova University, and a J.D. from Temple University.””
This is just another element that shows the complete complicity of the media by NOT making a big deal about this appointment.
Just IMAGINE the howling that would take place if someone from Blackwater or HALIBURTON had been nominated for ANY office.
Nice bio. But you left out the part about working with Fidel Castro. Is he not a good reference? I don’t know. I’m new to this stuff.
http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/aponte-cuba-spy-obama/2009/12/11/id/341257
“”Mari Del Carmen Aponte’s nomination as President Clinton’s ambassador to the Dominican Republic had to be withdrawn in 1998 when the late Sen. Jesse Helms let it be known he had an intelligence memo examining her connections to Communist Cuba’s spy agency.
On Wednesday, after years of giving many thousands of dollars to Democratic Party candidates and causes, Aponte has been nominated as U.S. ambassador to El Salvador by President Obama, who said her “depth of experience … will be valuable to my administration as we work to bring about real change for the American people.”
Aponte is a lawyer and longtime friend of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who served on Bill Clinton’s White House transition team in 1993. A 1998 Insight Magazine article said, “while routinely monitoring Cuban intelligence officers at the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, the FBI discovered that a member of President Clinton’s White House transition team may have been recruited as a spy for Fidel Castro.”
According to the magazine, which folded last year, the FBI believed Aponte’s live-in boyfriend was an agent for Cuba’s Dirección General de Inteligencia or DGI. Later named as Roberto Tamayo, the magazine said the FBI discovered that he “introduced her to Cuban intelligence officers at the interests section. He allegedly gave her a ‘loan’ believed to have come from the Cuban secret service – a loan Aponte never repaid. When questioned by the FBI in 1994, Aponte refused to take a polygraph test.”
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L O L !!!
Nah. This cannot be true. This must just slanted right-wing propaganda.
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I believe they were forced to withdraw the nomination today.
Got a link to further info on that withdrawl?
This woman is a loose cannon and has been for close to 25 yrs. She was compromised by DGI severely. When she refused that flutter she should have been shunned and shown the door.
Birds of a feather.....
Why wouldn’t Obama appoint one of his comrades to the position?
My apologies. The article only states that she was forced withdraw when they tried to appoint her under Clinton.
How the hell does this person even get a security clearance?
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