[deport]

Who knows what all this from Hagel stems from:

Hagel aide once target of Bolton
By the Lincoln Journal Star

Sen. Chuck Hagel said Friday he is "troubled" by an incident in which President Bush's nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations purged a young State Department official who now serves on the senator's staff.

Hagel said he still is "very likely to be supportive" of John Bolton's nomination, but he "need(s) to be assured there are not additional serious areas of concern."

The latest reported incident involving Rexon Ryu is the third example of Bolton's alleged efforts to remove officials who disagreed with him or with whom he was dissatisfied.

[Txsleuth]

I read about that the other day, but in the article I read this aide to Hagel didn't even mention it to Hagel---Hagel found out through some other source...

Therefore, if Bolton treated this guy SO bad, why didn't he bring it up to Hagel before now?

[PhilDragoo]

Consider another story in the April 15 paper about an alleged incident in which Rexon Ryu, a State Department "expert on nonproliferation issues in the Middle East," was transferred to another bureau "after he failed to produce a document requested by Bolton's chief of staff."

The story by Dafna Linzer reported that John Wolf, Ryu's former boss, "said that Ryu was a brilliant and dedicated civil servant, and that the allegations were found to be baseless." But near the end of the article, it said that the nonproliferation bureau at State "determined that Ryu's actions were unintentional," that "the omission was inadvertent and that there was no basis to the allegation." It seems that in this case we have a failure to communicate. Either he withheld the document, as charged, or he didn't. If the allegation is baseless, then how was it "inadvertent" or an "omission" not to provide it to Bolton's chief of staff?

Silly Attacks on John Bolton By Cliff Kincaid | April 15, 2005

[USNBandit]

The latest reported incident involving Rexon Ryu is the third example of Bolton's alleged efforts to remove officials who disagreed with him or with whom he was dissatisfied.

Golly, Bolton tries to get rid of people he thinks are incompetent. Doesn't he realize he is employed by the Government. Those people need to be promoted. :)