Senator Richard Durbin’s office has just released this statement which makes clear a long roster of reasons — all serious and substantive — to question and oppose the appointment of John Bolton as America’s Ambassador to the United Nations: “At a time when we should be mending fences and strengthening old ties with our world…
How did John Bolton think he was going to get away with the emphatic testimony he gave that he did not try to get any one removed or fired from their positions and never, in any way, tried to meddle with the intelligence findings with which he was being provided by State Department intel officers?…
Chris Nelson of the uber-insider Nelson Report ran this punchy piece on Bolton and Chafee tonight — and I think he has a point about Chafee’s potential miscalculation on the impact of his support of Bolton.
This interesting article, which goes right to the heart of the Lincoln Chafee-launched question about whether John Bolton was helping or sabotaging U.S.
Big news this morning. Douglas Jehl reports that Senator Chris Dodd is digging deeper into the reasons why John Bolton requested mega-secret intercepts from the National Security Agency. From the article: John R.
Senator Chafee seems lately to be an expert in sending mixed signals. He has heard about patterned abusive behavior by John Bolton of subordinates and rivals — and has himself opened what is perhaps the most important line of questioning of Bolton and then acted like he was totally unaware of the issues he’s raised….
Senator Lugar knows that yesterday’s hearings just made the Bolton confirmation process much more messy than expected. Lugar does not like messiness — and leans over backward to assure that there is fair play in his committee hearings.
Bill Kristol just posted a piece on the Daily Standard site accusing detractors and skeptics of John Bolton’s U.N. nomination of character assassination. Bill knows this is NOT the case. Carl Ford’s testimony was not just about beating up an intelligence officer, as Kristol and others would love to limit this testimony to.
According to this report by Barry Schweid, Lincoln Chafee still intends to vote to confirm John Bolton. Dafna Linzer and Charles Babington of the Washington Post report this from Chafee: “It was strong testimony from Mr. Ford. He used strong language,” Chafee said. But “it’s all focused on this one incident.