The Corruption of Human Rights Watch
Over the years, U.S. “public diplomacy” has pulled reputable “non-governmental organizations” into the U.S. propaganda orbit, sometimes via funding and sometimes by creating a revolving door to government jobs and “respectability,” as a letter from over 100 scholars suggests happened to Human Rights Watch.
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HRW’s close ties to the U.S. government call into question its independence.
For example, HRW’s Washington advocacy director, Tom Malinowski, previously served as a special assistant to President Bill Clinton and as a speechwriter to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. In 2013, he left HRW after being nominated as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights & Labor under John Kerry.
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Currently, HRW Americas’ advisory committee includes Myles Frechette, a former U.S. ambassador to Colombia,
and Michael Shifter, one-time Latin America director for the U.S. government-financed National Endowment for Democracy.
Miguel Díaz, a Central Intelligence Agency analyst in the 1990s, sat on HRW Americas’ advisory committee from 2003-11. Now at the State Department, Díaz serves as “an interlocutor between the intelligence community and non-government experts.”
Malinowski contended in 2009 that “under limited circumstances” there was “a legitimate place” for CIA renditions—the illegal practice of kidnapping and transferring terrorism suspects around the planet. Malinowski was quoted paraphrasing the U.S. government’s argument that designing an alternative to sending suspects to “foreign dungeons to be tortured” was “going to take some time.”
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Sincerely,
. Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
. Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
. Joel Andreas, Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
. Antony Anghie, Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
. John M. Archer, Professor of English, New York University
. Asma Barlas, Professor of Politics, Director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, Ithaca College
. Rosalyn Baxandall, Professor Emeritus of American Studies, State University of New York-Old Westbury
. Marc Becker, Professor of Latin American History, Truman State University
. Jason A. Beckett, Professor of Law, American University in Cairo
. Angélica Bernal, Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
AND 90 MORE ACADEMICS........
http://consortiumnews.com/2014/05/13/the-corruption-of-human-rights-watch/
National Endowment for Democracy is a CIA front group.
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