Bolton 'would bang on my door and shout'

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Ms Townsel, who runs her own agency in Dallas, told The Independent on Sunday that Mr Bolton had banged on her hotel room door and ranted at her over a two-week period in 1994. He also made disparaging remarks about her weight, accused her of theft and even questioned her sexuality. "I was alone in the hotel room. It was easy for him to drop by and bang on the door, trying to pressure me until I broke," she said. "Several times a day he would pound on the door and shout 'This is not going to go away. I don't know what you're doing.' "

The alleged harassment occurred when Ms Townsel was working as a contractor for the US Agency for International Development (USAid) on an advertising campaign supporting privatisation in Kyrgyzstan. Mr Bolton, currently the Bush administration's senior official on arms proliferation, was then a lawyer in private practice. She said she had written a letter to USAid complaining about a lack of funding from the main contractor, a company called International Business and Technical Consulting which Mr Bolton was representing, and claims he was sent to force her to retract her complaint. "There are a number of points I would make about this," she added. "His temper was just one of them. I believe he was pursuing his client's interests, but a number of the things he said could have been career-shattering."

The allegations of Ms Townsel, a self-described liberal, add to a growing picture of Mr Bolton as an aggressive and often domineering figure, ready and willing to bully staff under him. Carl Ford, a former State Department intelligence analyst, previously told the Senate committee that he considered Mr Bolton a "serial bully" after witnessing his behaviour towards another analyst who refused to alter his assessment of Cuba's weapons ambitions. It was also revealed last week that the former secretary of state, Colin Powell, has privately expressed his concern about Mr Bolton's temperament.


But Ms Townsel may not be finished yet. She says she is preparing an affidavit that will detail all of Mr Bolton's behaviour, both in Moscow and after she returned to Kyrgyzstan, and will send it to the committee, which is now due to vote on 12 May.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=632440

[yorkiemommie1]

1. good for her!

kick

[MisterP]

2. I do hope that he "banged" in the sense of pounding...

kick for the newest mustachioed bully!

[Straight Shooter]

3. I wish all this crap had come out about Bolton before Election 2000.

Maybe he could have been dismissed when he ran in and yelled, "I'm with the Dickless/Dick Team*, and I'm here to stop the count!"

*sometimes referred to as bush/cheney

[gumby]

4. Ms Townsel has already become the target

of a right-wing smear campaign. She is already being ruthlessly trashed. She is likely to end up with zero credibility.

[xchrom]

5. repukes don't listen to self described liberals.

she could have it video taped and it wouldn't matter.

[Matilda]

6. The guy sounds like an absolute raving nutter.

Can the Republicans continue to support and retain a shred of
credibility?

[Wilms]

7. Isn't it great.

They always have a great line-up!

[w4rma]

8. Yet another, more obvious, Republican psychopath. (nt)

[rfkrfk]

9. when does Townsel testify to the SFRC?

will be on C-Span?