East Timor: 200,000 Skeletons in Richard Holbrooke's Closet

Mother Jones noticed those pesky atrocities, too.

According to John Pilger, the cover-up carried over into this century:

Collusion between the Bush and Gore camps was common. During the 2000 election, Richard Holbrooke, who probably would have become Gore's secretary of state, conspired with Paul Wolfowitz to ensure their respective candidates said nothing about US policy towards Indonesia's blood-soaked role in southeast Asia. "Paul and I have been in frequent touch," said Holbrooke, "to make sure we keep [East Timor] out of the presidential campaign, where it would do no good to American or Indonesian interests."

Wait, it gets worse… according to Wikipedia, it goes all the way back to Vietnam…

Richard Holbrooke… Life Events

• 1962 graduates from Brown University; enters US Foreign Service
• 1962-6 Vietnam diplomatic service as a provincial representative for the Agency for International Development (AID), then Ambassadors' staff assistant to Maxwell Taylor and Henry Cabot Lodge.
• 1966 White House Vietnam staff of President Lyndon Johnson
• 1967-69 special assistant to Under Secretaries of State Nicholas deb. Katzenbach and Elliot Richardson, writes one volume of the Pentagon Papers...

Despite the massive evidence of Negroponte’s grisly history, the nomination has considerable support from Democrats as well as Republicans. Clinton’s last UN Ambassador, Richard Holbrooke, praised Negroponte, calling his nomination “terrific ... good for the UN, good for the foreign service, and I believe it will be good for the United States.” Holbrooke was Negroponte’s roommate in Vietnam and a coworker on Kissinger’s National Security Council.

Holbrooke pointed out that Negroponte has already been confirmed several times by Democratic-controlled congresses, in 1989 and 1993, despite opposition sparked by his record in Vietnam and Central America. “He’s gotten through before in a more liberal Congress, so I don’t see why he’d have trouble now,” the Clinton administration official said, adding, “We need a professional on the job. If professional diplomats are penalized for carrying out the instructions of their government, then we’re all in trouble.”

(Again, kind reader, please note his bias in favor of "State Department Lifers" who float through Democratic and Republican administrations making bipartisan, anti-democracy, messes wherever they land.)

According to Disinfopedia, Holbrooke is not only a bureaucrat, but a big time banking and corporate man.

And how about some sunlight and disclosure on what big money interests paid his lecture fees and director's payments while he "volunteered" his time to Clark, Gephardt, Edwards… and now Kerry…

Did you know that Richard Holbrooke is "Exclusively represented by the Greater Talent Network." (You think those companies pay him to speak because he's a good or interesting speaker? No way! It's just a legalized form of graft.)

The talent network's profile of Holbrooke reveals:

Holbrooke's experience includes stints as vice chairman of CS First Boston and as managing director of Lehman Brothers, where he utilized his leadership and strategic planning expertise to guide their growth nationally and globally.

Well, that's a start. Happy hunting, Authentic Journalists: There are your clues. Let the scavenger hunt begin.

Next up: Sandy Berger aka Samuel Berger aka Samuel R. Berger… a.k.a. "aspiring Secretary of Narco-State..."