Hagel - Bolton - new revelations on Sunday?

[housewolf]

From Steve Clemons - The Washington Note


Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., signaled yesterday that his support for the nomination of John Bolton as U.N. ambassador was wavering after new reports that Bolton had ordered an intelligence analyst removed from his job.

The analyst, a State Department employee who now works on Hagel's Senate staff, is the third intelligence analyst who was reported to have been threatened or intimidated by Bolton, who has served since 2001 as undersecretary of state for arms control and international security.

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I am in a position to say that new information will hit the press -- most likely tomorrow -- that takes Bolton's intelligence obsessions and reckless behavior to yet another level of concern.

What I think and suspect is coming is a bombshell set of articles that profile Bolton's obsession with intelligence and how his zealotry and overwhelming desire to compete with Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and Secretary of State Colin Powell resulted in the frequent mismanagement of intelligence for both personal aggrandizement as well as foreign policy crusades that undermined the effectiveness of his boss, the Secretary of State.

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http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/000469.html

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Bring it on." - George W. Bush*

* Enfant Terible of the Texas Air National Guard, Plutocratic Prince of the Imperial Pig Farm Upon Crawford, and Eddie Haskel Supremo clown-clone of the White House.

[Pharlo]

2. The Eddie Haskel

analogy is questionable based upon the following factor: his stupid ideas were his own.

George W.: Plagarized stupidity personified. The man doesn't even have the intelligence to steal good - much less brilliant - ideas.

[G_j]

3. Plagarized stupidity ...lol ....n/t

[sellitman]

4. Nothing beats watching the Repukes eat their own.

:popcorn:

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. This is so sweeeet!

I can't wait to see the repukes turn on this guy. He should NEVER have been considered for U.N. ambassador and now they're going to have to admit it and WE get to watch them do it...woohoo! They were wrong, AS USUAL.

[saltpoint]

6. Armitage is too far to the right for me, but I like him as a --

-- human being & I believe he doesn't take a lot of crap from nazis like Bolton. Armitage has been a good gauge for us to decide how extreme Bolton really is.

Hagel seems unlikely to put up with somebody like Bolton either. Hagel is a sentient Republican, increasingly rare for the Senate. If Hagel has his doubts about Bolton, Bolton might be worse than I thought he was, and I thought he was essentially a nazi.

[housewolf]

7. I find Hagel to be quite personable

But I'd like him a lot better if he hadn't been an owner of an electronic voting machine company prior to his running for the senate, and if there hadn't been "something funny" about his electoral results.

[saltpoint]

8. Have to agree. Electronic voting machines are maybe like --

-- electronic lovers -- you just don't know what you're getting into.

There's no soul and no reality to either one.