Note to Senate Foreign Relations Committee: READ THE NSA INTERCEPTS
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John Bolton was a man obsessed with intelligence in his last job.
Category: General
Make Today Count: John Bolton’s Nomination Teetering on Collapse
Today is the most important day for anyone who is engaged in the effort to send someone better than John Bolton to be America’s Ambassador to the United Nations. I will be posting a lot today — quick but important items.
John Bolton’s Deception Under Oath In Congressional Hearing: It’s Turning Out that the “Big Lie Strategy” Is Not Working
Any Senator — any and all — who votes to confirm John Bolton on Tuesday this week (though there may be a further delay) not only has to sign off on the issue of Bolton’s pattern of abusive behavior, they must also sign off on the connection of such abuse to the mismanagement of intelligence…
Lincoln Chafee’s Problem: To Move First and Lead? or Follow Bush & Co.? or Follow Hagel?
When most observers of the John Bolton jousting match were focusing on whether Lincoln Chafee was going to support or oppose Bolton, many of his advocates and opponents did not realize that the testimony that unfolded in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as well as other disconcerting reports in the media had seriously shaken other…
Four Strikes and Bolton is Out? Hagel May Be Un-Bolting from Bolton
Senator Hagel is not well-known for his sense of humor, and that is one of the reasons I like him so much.
No. 2 Senate Democrat Dick Durbin Issues Statement Outlining Reasons to Oppose John Bolton’s U.N. Nomination
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…
Senator Hagel Employs One of John Bolton’s Victims
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?…
If Chafee is 20 Points Down, Bolton Will Take Him Lower
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.
<em>Economist Magazine</em> Explores Whether Bolton Sabotaged U.S. Foreign Policy Towards North Korea
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.
Bolton May Have Used NSA Intercepts in His Crusades: Did He Use Intercepts to Spy on Pritchard?
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.