Dems Ready to Slash Negroponte

There's a Walter Pincus live forum going on right now at WaPo on John Negroponte's appointment as the first national intelligence director. Within three questions, someone floated where the Dem's will go in their backward-looking, "I'm agin' it" agenda:

New York, N.Y.: Mr. Pincus,

Thanks for your unflinching reporting at a time when some reporters find covering Washington "scary."

Do you believe we'll hear, in confirmation hearings, much questioning of Negroponte about his stint as ambassador to Honduras during the era of the death-squads (which, I hope it is no longer controversial, were trained and financed by the CIA)? Are there, or will there be, documents made available through FOIA requests substantiating his role in those activities, or acquitting him of any involvement?

Especially now that Secretary Rumsfeld has publicly suggested we use "Salvador option" in Iraq, this particular bullet point on Negroponte's resume seems exceedingly relevant.