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Dick Morris is spearheading a campaign to stop presumed Secretary of State John Kerry from tapping an “overt Castro sympathizer” to be in charge of U.S.-Cuban policy. Morris says one of Kerry’s closest confidants is Fulton Armstrong, who has served for years as his assistant for Cuban and Latin American relations on the Senate staff of the Foreign Policy Committee. … Morris said when John Bolton was up for Ambassador to Cuba, he said there was evidence Castro was amassing biological weapons for use against the U.S. and moved to declassify a report about it. “Fulton Armstrong opposed that and...

  Thursday, July 14, 2005 10:48 p.m. EDTJohn Kerry Outed Undercover CIA Agent Sen. John Kerry, who called for Karl Rove to be fired over allegations that he revealed the identity of CIA employee Valerie Plame, outed a genuine undercover CIA agent just this past April - even after the agency asked that his identity be kept secret. Kerry blew the cover of CIA secret operative Fulton Armstrong during confirmation hearings for U.N. ambassador nominee John Bolton. Questioning Bolton, Kerry asked: "Did Otto Reich share his belief that Fulton Armstrong should be removed for his position?" - according to...

How come everyone is so bent out of shape about Jim Kilts of Gillette absconding with $162 million he basically didn't earn, after a mere 18 months or so at the helm of another expiring Boston-based corporation? Granted, Kilts is a greed-crazed corporado, but it's not like he's the only guy living off big bucks that he had nothing to do with accumulating. How about the two United States senators from Massachusetts, passing yet another pleasant Cape summer with the Beautiful People? Here are the numbers on just their vacation residences: Sen. John F. Kerry's mansion at 5 Hulbert Ave....

Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) (R) watches Senator John Kerry (D-MA) as he gestures during a joint news conference on protecting the U.S. from terrorism, on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 12, 2005. Senate Democrats on Monday opened a debate on domestic security spending by blasting Republicans for leaving America vulnerable to London-style attacks with their focus on terrorism overseas. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

Sen. John Kerry, who called for Karl Rove to be fired over allegations that he revealed the identity of CIA employee Valerie Plame, outed a genuine undercover CIA agent just this past April - even after the Agency asked that his identity be kept secret. Kerry blew the cover of CIA secret operative Fulton Armstrong during confirmation hearings for U.N. ambassador nominee John Bolton. Questioning Bolton, Kerry asked: "Did Otto Reich share his belief that Fulton Armstrong should be removed for his position?" - according to a transcript excerpted by the New York Times. "The answer is yes," the top...

Senator John Kerry's gaffe in outing an undercover CIA analyst at this week's confirmation hearing for John Bolton has been widely noted. Mr. Kerry used Fulton Armstrong's name when questioning Mr. Bolton about whether he tried to have the Latin America analyst reassigned. But that's a foot fault compared with what the Democrat from Massachusetts had to say about Mr. Bolton and Kim Jong Il. It seems Mr. Bolton once uttered some pungent remarks about the totalitarian North Korean leader and the "hellish nightmare" in which his people live. And in Monday's hearing Mr. Kerry chided Mr. Bolton for speaking...

'Remember all the screaming from former diplomat Joe Wilson (search), when Robert Novak (search) exposed Wilson's wife as a CIA agent? Her name is Valerie Plame — you'll know her when you see her. She's the one who now wears big Italian dark glasses and a scarf over her head at all times. "Spooks can't be exposed!" screamed her husband. And he blamed Karl Rove, insisting Rove exposed his wife as payback for Wilson going public with a story that he personally investigated whether Saddam Hussein tried to get nuke bomb fuel and the answer was no. Wilson said President...

WASHINGTON, April 12 - Everybody in Washington knows that members of Congress cannot keep secrets. Now two of them are facing questions about whether they inadvertently blew a C.I.A. officer's cover. John R. Bolton, President Bush's nominee to be ambassador to the United Nations, delicately referred to the undercover officer as "Mr. Smith" at his confirmation hearing on Monday. Mr. Bolton, an under secretary of state, was trying to fend off accusations from Democrats that he had tried to get intelligence analysts reassigned because they disagreed with him. One of those about whom that charge was raised now holds an...

JOHN KERRY OUTS CIA AGENT Remember all of the outrage and liberal indignation awhile ago when former ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife Valerie Plame was outed as a CIA agent? Evidently it was an unnamed Bush administration official that supplied the name....and the results of that investigation have yet to be made public. Well, it's happened again. Guess who publicly outed a CIA agent this time? Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. That's right...The Poodle's faux pas came yesterday as he was slamming U.N. Ambassador-nominee John Bolton at his confirmation hearings. Here's how it went down. For the majority of the hearings, Bolton...

Mr. Smith came to Washington again Monday, as an alias for a Central Intelligence Agency officer who works covertly. Senators, however, may have blown his cover. During questioning on John R. Bolton's nomination to be President Bush's ambassador to the United Nations, Bolton and members of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee referred to "Mr. Smith" as one official among several who were involved in a dispute over what Democrats asserted was Bolton's inappropriate treatment of an intelligence analyst who disagreed with him. "We referred to this other analyst at the CIA, whom I'll try and call Mr. Smith here, I...

Reader Debbie writes in to say: “Can you check this out? This went on during the hearing today. “KERRY: ‘30sec. Mr. Chairman. This is reading from Mr. Flightses(sp) interview where he says did Otto Reich(sp) share his belief that Fulton Armstrong should be removed from this position, the answer is yes. Did John Bolton share that view? Mr. Flights said ‘Yes’” “When Bolton comes back he says Mr. SMITH right away.” “They have been using the name Smith all day to keep the agents identity secret. If so, is Mr. Armstrong the Mr. Smith they have been referring to, and...

Nomination HEARINGbefore the COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONSUNITED STATES SENATEONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESSFIRST SESSION Monday, April 11, 2005 Time: 9:30 AMPlace: 216 Hart Senate Office BuildingPresiding: Senator Lugar     Nominee: John R. Bolton    To Be US Representative to The United Nations with    Rank Of Ambassador and US Representative to the    United Nations Security Council and to be US    Representative to Sessions of the United Nations    General Assembly during His Tenure of Service as    US Rep to the United Nations

I don't know if anyone else is watching this, but the Senate hearing on John Bolton has repeatedly referred to a "Mr. Smith" whom Bolton said had behaved unprofessionally. Well, Sen. John Kerry just gave "Mr. Smith's" name in the open hearing. Once a jackass, always a jackass.

<p>WASHINGTON - It was both an auspicious and ominous way to begin the week: Auspicious because of President George Bush's resolute demand that Saddam Hussein and his sons leave Iraq. There were also ominous noises from his predecessor in the White House, Bill Clinton, who bared not only his antagonism to the president but his horror at envisioning a strong America.</p>