The press corps keeps reminding the White House that is has a Bolton problem on its hands. Scott McClellan, when asked about where the White House stood on Bolton gave the routine response of Bush still wanting an up-or-down vote.

Officials in the White House, the State Department and in the Senate close to the Senate-White House fight over Bolton’s nomination to serve as U.S.

TWN is hearing two divergent lines on Bolton. The first is that Bolton wants and will get a recess appointment in August. They argue that the legislative fight to get him confirmed is over.

President Bush, when he was running against Al Gore in the 2000 presidential race, said that he would run his office honorably, with humility. He said that he was going to be “straight” with the American people — and wouldn’t parse words and meanings like his predecessor was known to do.

There is a lot of turmoil around Washington on the Bolton recess appointment story that the Washington Post ran today.

The White House rethought its plan to appoint John Bolton as U.S.

A TWN reader just sent me this CNN Inside Politics transcript of an interview with Michael Isikoff. (I can’t hyperlink well from France so will try and do so later) CROWLEY: Right.

I was there this morning, and the bulls are very big, very fast, very feisty, and the horns are sharp. I didn’t get gored or trampled, though I saw about a dozen people get run over, three people tossed by horns, and witnessed one broken wrist.

TWN has posted a great deal in the past about James Woolsey and his personal enrichment in a network of national security-oriented firms, investment funds, and other activities.

I’m not one to pile on to stories, but the Valerie Plame case is one in which someone in the White House — and perhaps more than one person — committed a serious crime.