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May 21, 2005
The Washington Note's Update on the Bolton Nomination
Steve Clemons at The Washington Note reported May 20, 2005, that: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar and Ranking Member Joseph Biden both sought from the administration the names, contextual information, and, if possible, the unedited actual intercept material that John Bolton [President George W. Bush's choice for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations] reviewed during his tenure as Under Secretary of State for International Security and Arms Control.
"In addition," Mr. Clemons wrote, "it turns out that there is significant confusion about whether Deputy Director of National Intelligence Michael Hayden did in fact show the intercept material to Senators Roberts and Rockefeller -- as previously reported." Here's more.
Lugar's request was rebuffed by the White House, but thus far he seems not to have made any public comment about the fact that his evidence requests regarding John Bolton were not complied with.
Posted by Munir Umrani at May 21, 2005 03:31 PM
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