Senator Lugar’s very, very long opening statement is actually making the case of why John Bolton is NOT a candidate of impeccable credentials — and not likely to be a candidate that most Americans can support of whom feel proud.
Demetri Sevastopulo has a great article today in the Financial Times that gives just a quick “state of play” run-down on the Battle over Bolton. I recommend a full read of it. The headline is wrong though. This is NOT the final battle over John Bolton today.
John Bolton may have thought that there was a mole in the State Department Intelligence & Research Bureau who was undermining his efforts to announce that Cuba had a bio-weapons program underway. This is incredible news. . .
Senator Boxer has launched a campaign to have citizens try to talk sense to Chafee on all things Bolton. Here is a letter she sent out yesterday — and yes, there is still time to encourage Chafee to realize that a vote to confirm Bolton will be consequential for him. . .and remembered.
Yesterday, I was on a National Public Radio program with Johns Hopkins University Professor Ruth Wedgewood and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and Senator John Danforth. The show was NPR’s Talk of the Nation, and it can be listened to here.
Doug Jehl reports: With a vote scheduled Thursday on his contested nomination as ambassador to the United Nations, John R. Bolton has told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that a policy maker should maintain the right to “state his own reading of the intelligence” even when it differs from that of intelligence agencies. Mr.
I am posting below the mountainous pile of witness interview transcripts conducted by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with various people connected to the John Bolton dossier. These really should be edited and massaged together into a book.
Every day the Bolton fiasco grows more incredible. Some want to call this entire mess BoltonGate, but I don’t want to trivialize or resort to cliches (yet) to describe some of the really outrageous practices of the John Bolton fiefdom at the State Department.
A new set of controversial Bolton emails has made its way out of the State Department’s increasingly tightened access to all things related to John Bolton. In these, Reuters submits that Bolton’s Chief of Staff, Fred Fleitz, threatened to “diminish the role” of the Intelligence and Research Bureau.
