Bolton Vote Pushed Back to Next Week

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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.

Senator Chafee, When Do Anecdotes about John Bolton Become Data?

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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.

Lincoln Chafee Opens Up the Key Question of Who Undermined America’s North Korea Policy: Jack Pritchard or John R. Bolton?

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What We Know So Far about Ambassador Jack Pritchard, John Bolton, James Woolsey, Senator Jon Kyl, and American National Security John Bolton not only tried to get intelligence agent Christian Westermann “removed” from Bolton’s portfolio (read, “fired”) at the State Department, he also seems to have recruited help outside the State Department bureaucracy — from…

SENATORS — WHAT ABOUT NIGER-URANIUM DEAL?

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John Bolton was the most important advocate of the Niger-Uranium fiction inside the State Department, despite this intelligence being soundly and vigorously rejected by BOTH State Department intelligence analysts AND Central Intelligence Agency analysts.