Posted on 07/28/2005 4:22:46 PM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON -- 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.
In paperwork filed with the Senate earlier this year in connection with his nomination, Bolton denied a role in any investigation over the past five years. Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., who opposes the nomination, questioned the veracity of that response, prompting the State Department reply.
"That answer is truthful then and it remains the case now," spokesman Sean McCormack said.
But after McCormack's statement, Biden, sent a new letter to the State Department asserting Bolton was interviewed by State Department internal investigators in July 2003 on a related matter. He did not say how he knew this and the State Department had no immediate response.
A federal grand jury is investigating who leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame to the news media. Biden's initial request followed a report that Bolton was among State Department undersecretaries who "gave testimony" about a classified memo that has become an important piece of evidence in the leak investigation.
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Well, there's only one person I can think of connected to W that hasn't been linked to Plame by the presstitutes: Judge Roberts. I guess they're waiting until the well-covered hearings to pop the question...
I can't wait for the indictments of the Wilsons!!
"Plugs" Biden is a sickening specimen.
This latest episode is a product of DU and MSNBC's imagination..
I always question the veracity of Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.!
How can Biden question this? Either Bolton spoke with prosecutors, or he didn't. The State Department says he didn't.
Biden is trying ANYTHING to keep Bolton out of UN...I am beginning to wonder if Biden has a personal stake in this...he is acting crazy about this appointment...
On Brit's show tonight they were speculating that IF Bolton had testified, but not told Biden's committee that, then Bush would be precluded from giving Bolton even a recess appointment...
He must not be allowed to remain silent on this issue.
HF
You're thinking what I'm thinking, huh?
Seemingly Dodd wants to cozy up to Castro and Bolton is not amenable to that process at all.
I suspect Biden is simply doing Dodd's bidding.
They are grabbing for straws
Also .. How does Biden know this?
I read on another thread that this has been DU's theory for several seeks...we know Olberman is a DUmmy and Im betting they got Plugs involved....if that's the case Plugs is a bigger idiot than I thought.
Gosh, then Dodd must be really upset---I have seen a few articles about Cuba lately...not good, power shortages and such...
I DID see Elian Gonzalez last weekend, with Castro kissing and hugging on him...he is a member of some group (like our Boy Scouts, except communist) that pledges to revere Castro and keep Castro's legacy for Cuba....sheesh.
Evidently Dodd has plans for some sort of business deal in Cuba. But I cannot remember the details.
his form is inaccurate for another reason (unrelated to Fitzgerald) - he is correcting it in a resubmission.
They just had a Fox News break and Bolton is going to have to revise his form since he is now recalling that he was indeed, interviewed by the State Dep't WRT to some uranium issue. This seems to be an honest mistake...and not at all related to the leak issue. I would like to know were Biden got a hold of this info.
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.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/28/AR2005072801605.html
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