04/11/05

John Bolton, George W. Bush's astonishingly brazen choice to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, came off badly at his confirmation hearings today -- bloodless, evasive, and mendacious -- in ways that should give senators cause to reject him, regardless of whether they agree with the president's policies or even with the substance of Bolton's views. The hearings will continue for another day or two—to hear from officials who have had run-ins with Bolton and, possibly, to give him a chance for rebuttal—but, after today's session, his nomination should be put down for three reasons, quite apart from the many reasons that his critics (and I count myself among them) have laid out in recent weeks.::

http://www.slate.com/id/2116567/

from Slate, by Fred Kaplan


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp