State Dept.: Bolton Didn't Testify in Leak

AP ^ | 7/28/5 | MARK SHERMAN

[hipaatwo]

Check out post #20. Makes you go hmmmmm.

[Mo1]

we have another update on #20

[cwb]

Thanks for the link

[Mo1]

McCormack recited the questionnaire on whether a nominee "has been interviewed or asked to supply any information in connection with any administrative (including an inspector general), congressional or grand jury investigation, within the past five years, except routine congressional testimony."

Sounds the Dems are being nit picky

[hipaatwo]

Bolton Inaccurately Filled Out Senate Panel Questionnaire


WASHINGTON — While John Bolton (search) has enjoyed renewed scrutiny because of an alleged role in the investigation into who leaked a CIA officer's name to the press, the State Department acknowledged Thursday night that the President Bush's pick to be ambassador to the United Nations did inaccurately state his role in another probe.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,164013,00.html

[Mo1]

Who is Gary Mauro and why do we care what he says?

[Darkwolf377]

Dems will call for Bolton's withdrawal. I hope the President doesn't make the mistake of panicking as he did when calling for the "leak" investigation and goes right ahead with his reccess appointment of Bolton.

[Mo1]

Oh and being interviewed by the State Department's inspector general and the Special Prosecutor in the Wilson-Plame case are NOT the same thing

[hipaatwo]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/clockwerks/7173983/in/set-179210/


Pic of Mauro and Hildabeast

[Mo1]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA ... NOT a flattering picture

http://photos6.flickr.com/7159603_39e8cada0e.jpg?v=0

[shield]

Wonder if some way Biden was in on the oil-for-food scandal?

Let's turn the tables on Biden and start a rumor that he got kick backs on the oil-for-food scandal...he deserves it...

[nuffsenuff]

This is such a petty attempt to discredit Bolton.

As if anyone cares about what the next UN ambassador filled out on a stupid questionnaire.

[cyncooper]

But Bolton was interviewed by the State Department's inspector general as part of a joint investigation with the CIA following the administration's acknowledgement that its assertion Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger was wrong. The president cited the Iraq-Niger connection two years ago in his State of the Union address justifying an invasion.

In March, ranking Democrat Rep. Henry Waxman asked Rep. Christopher Shays, chairman of a House subcommittee on national security, to look at why Bolton's role in the creation of a State Department fact sheet about the bogus Iraq-Niger connection was concealed.

I don't think you should say the questionaire is not important. I don't think for a minute that Bolton was deliberately misleading but it is important to be accurate.

Which brings me to the article which characterizes the Niger/uranium reports as "bogus" which is inaccurate.

[cyncooper]

To clarify: I do agree the dems are stretching the point (as are these reporterettes). From the second paragraph I posted evidently Bolton was asked to help create a fact sheet and I would guess he didn't consider this an interview which the question clearly is asking.

But I don't think saying nobody cares about a questionaire is the right way to go.

I care about it being filled out correctly (it was) and I care when dems and media types aiding them make a mountain out of a molehill about them, too.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

John Bolton, the nominee for U.N. ambassador, has not testified to a grand jury or been interviewed by prosecutors about the leak of a CIA officer's identity, the State Department said Thursday in reply to a Democratic critic.

When will Hillary, John Kerry and Ted Kennedy be interviewed by prosecutors?

[Txsleuth]

The problem is, to have a rumor grow, it needs the media to spread it...and they are too busy spreading BS about Bush and his whole administration....

IF we here on FR started one, it might discredit what Jim Robinson has built up here, and I wouldn't want any part in it...but, IF we had some reliable SOURCES....maybe we could.

[shield]

IF we had some reliable SOURCES....maybe we could.

LOL...let's see NYT's, Washington Compost, LA Slimes....writes crapola all the time....people still believe it...when we know without a doubt...it's LIES LIES LIES...it's not even somethin' we can call a rumor...there just out and out lies...LOL

Your right...I wouldn't won't to discredit FR at all...However, I really wasn't even thinking of starting a rumor like that at FR...

[hipaatwo]

MY EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Txsleuth]

I know you weren't....and I also know it is tempting sometimes, because it is frustrating to see what garbage the MSM can spew and get away with it...

This whole Bolton/Plame/MSNBC/BIDEN thing is just a news network that is in the dumper, with a Bush-hater show host, that is floating anything to see if it will float...

Amazing, though, how little Rather has had to pay for what he did...just like Sandy Burglar.

[kcvl]

Bills to allow travel between the United States and Cuba are pending in the Senate (S.1919) and the House (H.R. 4471). The Senate bill, the “Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act of 2000,” is co-sponsored by Senator Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and Senator Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT)


In a sharp and aggressive exchange with Rice, Dodd suggested that hopes for political evolution in Cuba are likely to be stifled rather than buoyed by a hermetic suspension of contact between the island and the United States and highlighted the absurd travel policy between the two nations. When the nominee attempted to defend the administration's policy by arguing that Castro skimmed the proceeds of tourism in Cuba and used the funds to prop up his regime, Dodd quickly retorted that the North Korean and Iranian governments no doubt do the same.


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Carlsbad firm set to test cancer drugs from Cuba


SNIP

Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Connecticut, who wrote a letter of support for CancerVax, praised the Bush administration's decision to approve the cancer vaccine agreement.

"Saving lives shouldn't be a political issue, it should be a human issue," Dodd said in a written statement. "Obviously we don't know if this drug will be the magic bullet when it comes to fighting this dreaded disease, but this decision at least allows continued study of this vaccine."

Castro at ceremony

http://tinyurl.com/bjdov