The first REAL sparks just blew in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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…

Check out Fred Kaplan’s summary of today’s hearings with John Bolton. He thinks Bolton’s situation is bad. I’m not convinced that things are as bad as Kaplan portrays, but the vector was not positive for Bolton today.

If you missed the Bolton hearings, they will reply again on C-Span in their entirety tonight at 8 p.m. eastern time. Pay particular attention to Chuck Hagel’s and Lincoln Chafee’s questions.

Check it out. CNN‘s homepage is running a poll posing this question: Is John Bolton the right choice for U.S.

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.

John Bolton has said unequivocably that he did nothing to try and discipline anyone over their intelligence findings and views. This just out in the New York Times: Mr.

Lincoln Chafee may not have intended to undo John Bolton, but I think he may have set up the “loose cannon” charge better than any other Member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He asked Bolton about his now infamous July 31, 2003 “A Dictatorship at the Crossroads” Speech given about U.S.

Watching these Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearings is very strange. As Bloomberg has just reported, John Bolton professed his enthusiastic support for the U.N. and seemingly has miraculously become a convert to bipartisanship. “Such leadership (by the U.S. in the U.N.

Wow. Senator Hagel just asked several questions of John Bolton who failed to really answer any of them without a lot of obfuscating bureaucratese from the nominee. First, after stating his unequical support of the United Nations and his belief that the existence of the U.N.