Obama appoints ambassadorship who was intimate with Cuban spy
The Spy Who Saved or Created Me
Posted by Noel @ 1:43 PM Monday 14 December 2009 • Filed under: Commies
“FROM LOVE, WITH RUSSIA”
This lady must have mad diplomatic skilz, because three different presidents have sought her services; President Clinton, President Obama…and “President” Castro.
(Very!) Big Government:
Today, the Obama White House announced the nomination of Mari Del Carmen Aponte as U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador. It is not Ms. Aponte’s first brush with an ambassadorship. In 1998, President Clinton nominated her to be Ambassador to the Dominican Republic. She was forced to withdraw her name from consideration over allegations of ties to the Cuban spy agency.
Insight:
Aponte allegedly cohabited with an agent of the Cuban intelligence service, known as DGI. The man, who was not named in the memo, later was identified in followup press reports as Roberto Tamayo.
In October, eight months after Insight’s exclusive story concerning White House security lapses and Aponte’s relationship with the suspected spy (see “Do You Want to Know a Secret?” March 23, 1998) the former member of Clinton’s transition team quietly stepped aside. It was only earlier this month that news emerged about her withdrawal.
The memo — written by an intelligence expert working overseas — questioned the lack of a thorough security check into Aponte’s background. The memo also alleged that Aponte was recruited as a “DGI asset.” According to the memo, “When the FBI eventually questioned her about her involvement with Cuban intelligence, she reportedly refused to cooperate, saying that since she was not seeking a permanent White House position she was not subject to a background check.”
Nonetheless, Aponte subsequently was provided a top-secret clearance at the State Department despite serious objections from career officials. Prominent in the minority legal community, Aponte has been a contributor to various Democratic Party campaign$…
This is troubling. What kind of message are we sending to our kids when we just shack-up with our communists spies, but we don’t marry them?
Besides, Washington would shut down if we fired every Democrat who had ever slept with a communist. Think of all the special elections we’d have to hold–it’s just impractical.
This comrade has a good Five-Year Plan:
Don’t you see the administration’s genius? Isn’t it useful to have someone with close ties to the DGI working with a government that will also be run by the DGI? It’s almost like cutting out the middle man.
Call me loco, Ivan, but I think Americans should send an ambassador of our own to represent us to the foreign, often hostile communist government.
in Washington.
UPDATE: I’m not familiar with her claim of a Part-Time Employee Espionage Exemption…but for someone who says she’s not a permanent government employee, she sure seems like a, well, permanent government employee.
I don’t know why Cuba is even spying here anyway. This president has made it abundantly clear that he means absolutely no harm to Communist police states.
They’re probably just hanging around out of concern, to make sure we get CubaCare right.
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