This is unbelievable. TWN just received news that in order to preempt Senate Democrats from objecting to a Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote today on John Bolton’s nomination to be U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
It was brought to my attention this morning that Senator Lincoln Chafee did not vote for President Bush in the 2004 election. He stated publicly that he “wrote in” President Bush’s father for President.
Here is the latest: ~ Senator Chris Dodd has not received from the administration the 10 NSA intercepts John Bolton requested; ~ New information on new abuse cases, both regarding intelligence analysts and people close to Bolton in previous jobs, are coming forward and need to be investigated; ~ More is still pending about Bolton’s…
John Bolton was actually voted down by senior partners of Bolton’s law firm, Covington and Burling, where he worked before serving in the Department of Justice, because of concerns over his abusive behavior. An individual who would only speak anonymously shared the content of the super-secret partner’s meeting with me yesterday.
Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff, Lawrence Wilkerson had this to say about John Bolton in an interview with the New York Times: “Under Secretary Bolton was never the formidable power that people are insinuating he was in terms of foreign policy, or blocking the policies that Secretary Powell wished to pursue,” Lawrence Wilkerson, who served…
Washington College student Jack Bohrer began to ask Karl Rove a question last night at a public forum about John Bolton’s United Nations nomination — and for a moment Rove let down high-charm guard, interrupted the student’s question, and began to assert his view on all things Bolton.
This is an amazing entry in tonight’s Nelson Report. It’s one of the bravest essays I have read this week — and it paints both the Democrats and Republicans amorally triangulating around the White House’s winner-takes-all, win-every-battle obsession in the Tom DeLay and John Bolton fiascos.
An important new poll conducted by Zogby International and commissioned by Citizens for Global Solutions has just been released. Here is a copy of the poll.
(photo credit: CommonDreams.org) A close friend of mine just called in tears with the news that I had missed in the Washington Post this morning.
Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld may not have been the only person bemoaning the fact that he didn’t have his own robust, independent source for national security intelligence. John Bolton too felt constantly constrained by and at war with “intelligence-packagers” at the Department of State and CIA.
