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Obama’s Intel Chief Pick Backed Indonesian Occupation of East Timor

Posted by CD | Posted in Asian Affairs, International Politics, Social Issues | Posted on 12-19-2008 | 1 Comment »

Obama has also reportedly chosen Admiral Dennis Blair for the nation’s top intelligence job. As Director of National Intelligence, Blair would oversee the U.S. government’s sixteen intelligence agencies. Blair’s selection has come under controversy mainly over his role in backing the Indonesian occupation of East Timor during the 1990s. Blair provided key support to the Indonesian military while commanding U.S. military forces in the Pacific. In a letter, the East Timor and Indonesian Action Network said: “Blair sought the quickest possible restoration of military assistance, despite Indonesia’s highly destructive exit and the failure, which continues to this day, to prosecute the senior officials who oversaw the violence. This lack of concern for human rights shows that he is unlikely to be a champion of reform.”

Couldn’t he have found someone else…???

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Obama is a good US President.

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