The Bolton Nomination -- An Effort To Derail?

[seemslikeadream]

NEWSWEEK PERISCOPE: The Bolton Nomination -- An Effort To Derail?
Sunday April 10, 9:32 am ET


NEW YORK, April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- NEWSWEEK PERISCOPE item:
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Are efforts to derail John Bolton's nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations progressing? NEWSWEEK has learned that in a closed-door interview with Senate intelligence-committee staffers last week, Stuart Cohen, former acting chief of the National Intelligence Council, a panel of senior intel analysts, said Bolton had visited his CIA office to demand that the council's top Latin America expert be removed from his post. Sources say the expert, who can't be identified because he serves undercover overseas, tangled with Bolton about the draft of a speech Bolton made in 2002 claiming that Cuba was pursuing a germ-warfare program. A Senate intel-committee report last year quoted another WMD analyst from the State Department as saying that Bolton had also tried to have him transferred because he raised questions about the same speech. (Neither analyst was reassigned.)

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[Kindigger]

1. I can't start a thread....OMG

After Face the Nation, * congratulated the Crystal Cathedral on its 25th anniversary. It looked like an address to the nation.

OMG this country is F'd! :crazy:

[ashmanonar]

2. wouldn't surprise me that he was trying to pin

germ warfare on cuba. the fact of the matter is, cuba is too poor to have anything like that.

and let's continue and help these efforts to get him out of the UN!

[peacetalksforall]

3. "Senate Republicans don't believe that Bolton's criticism of analysts was

out of bounds"

Can you believe this?

He tried to get one REMOVED and the other TRANSFERRED and the Repubs brush it off as Bolton's MERE CRITICISM of the experts.

Dis-reality is dis-honesty. They are a dis-grace.

[huckleberry]

4. SOP for the *bush administration

more from the article -- "Senate Democrats expect a witness will appear at Bolton's delayed confirmation hearing this week to testify about Bolton's alleged attempts to intimidate intel professionals."

Newsweek link -
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7446007/site/newsweek/


I hope this investigation brings other analysts forward to show that this is standard operating procedure for this administration, and that this same type of intimidation was used for the Iraq "intelligence".