Biden says that Rice ignored Democrats' Bolton data requests

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Biden says that Rice ignored Democrats' Bolton data requests


Anne Gearan, Associated Press
May 8, 2005 BOLTON0508

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The top Democrat on the Senate committee considering the nomination of John Bolton as U.N. ambassador scolded Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Saturday, saying she ignored Democratic requests for additional information about the nominee.

In a curt letter to Rice, Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., reiterated his requests for State Department documents related to charges that Bolton tried to bend or ignore government intelligence findings that did not suit his conservative ideology.

Biden acknowledged that the State Department sent the GOP-led committee a large number of documents from Bolton's four-year tenure as the department's arms control chief. But the documents answered only requests from the committee's Republican chairman and ignored what Democrats wanted to see, Biden wrote.


Biden said that in her public remarks about the Bolton nomination fight last week, Rice implied "that you do not believe you have a duty to respond to requests from the minority."

[Spinzonner]

1. Well, in all fairness

the administration really only has two responses to apply to any situation.

Stonewall or Lie

[cornermouse]

2. Its official. We are now a one party country.

We are us vs. them. How far are we away from having another McCarthy starting hearings?

[teryang]

3. Interesting response to Congressional power to inquire

F.U. condi.