BonosSaint
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The man to fix the United Nations or another American finger to the rest of the world?
madroseka said:
I don't think Jesus Christ could make it work...
BonoVoxSupastar said:what a jackass!!!
Judah said:Bolton may be in trouble for making false statements at his nomination hearings (as with a lot of GOP fuck-ups these days, it's Plamegate/Rovegate/Traitorgate related)...make it right, Condi:
State Dept admits Bolton gave inaccurate answers
Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:52 PM ET
By Vicki Allen and Saul Hudson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department reversed itself on Thursday night and acknowledged that President Bush's U.N. ambassador nominee gave Congress inaccurate information about an investigation he was involved in.
The acknowledgment came after the State Department had earlier insisted nominee John Bolton's "answer was truthful" when he said he had not been questioned or provided information to jury or government investigations in the past five years.
"When Mr. Bolton completed his form during the Senate confirmation process he did not recall being interviewed by the State Department inspector general. Therefore his form as submitted was inaccurate in this regard and he will correct the form," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
Earlier, Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware said he had information Bolton was interviewed as part of a State Department-CIA joint investigation on intelligence lapses that led to the Bush administration's pre-Iraq war claim that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger.
Biden, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, said that should have been noted on the questionnaire, for which nominees swear out affidavits stating the information is true and accurate.
"It now appears that Mr. Bolton's answers may not meet that standard," Biden wrote in a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
McCormack also said Bolton was not interviewed in special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation into who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Earlier in the day, reporters questioned McCormack on whether Bolton testified before the federal grand jury investigating the case, as MSNBC reported last week.
'TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE'
In a letter to Bush, California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer said Bolton's admission was "too little, too late" and urged Bush to withdraw the nomination.
"A recess appointment of a man who did not tell the truth to the (Senate Foreign Relations) committee and only admitted the truth when he was caught would send a horrible message," Boxer wrote.
"It seems unusual that Mr. Bolton would not remember his involvement in such a serious matter. In my mind, this raises more questions that need to be answered. I hope President Bush will not make the mistake of recess appointing Mr. Bolton," Biden said in response to the admission that Bolton's information was inaccurate.
melon said:Look who had a recess appointment today? I think Bush wants to run a dictatorship. Why even have Congress vote to approve nominees of anything, when Bush just wants them to be a rubber stamp?
Melon
nbcrusader said:The dictatorship are those individuals who prevent votes in the first place.
Oh havent been able to chat realtime in a whileU2democrat said:
A_Wanderer said:Oh havent been able to chat realtime in a while
Oh and for relevence ~ Bolton, UN, Unilateralism, Multilateralism, Useless Organisation