Raymond Bonner says special envoy to Venezuela 'will lie when needed'
When new congresswoman Ilhan Omar used a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing to grill the Trump administration’s new special envoy to Venezuela, Washington stopped and watched.
Those on the left, particularly those opposed to Trump’s Venezuela policy, praised Omar’s performance. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that it “felt like justice” watching a Somali refugee question Elliott Abrams.
Abrams was a key player in the Reagan administration in the 1980s when it propped up the El Salvadoran government and then covered up reports of the El Salvadoran army massacring its own people ...
One person watching the exchange with interest was Raymond Bonner, the former New York Times reporter who, along with Alma Guillermoprieto of the Washington Post, broke the story of the El Mozote massacre ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/27/trumps-special-envoy-to-venezuela-will-lie-when-needed-claims-raymond-bonner
