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Tuesday, 19 April, 2005
 
the new Pravda, or facts don't enter into it

We are in to a late phase of the Bolton confirmation hearings for his appointment to be U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. But apparently there is still one act left to go Senators Want Officials' Take on Bolton. It will be a few weeks more before he gets a vote. John Bolton has a long history of inflammatory statements concerning the United Nations; the concept of united nations, of any institution attempting to fill that function, of the existence of international law. As opposed to the concept of an imperial unity and order. It's reasonably clear he was not be sent to make it work better but to keep it from working at all. His supporters are among the first to acknowledge that.

At the confirmation hearings testimony came to focus on his bullying behavior. Then came a Washington Post article on his withholding information from his superiors Bolton Often Blocked Information, Officials Say (washingtonpost.com). Whispers that where ever he was, he was first working for the Vice President. For the first set of complaints frankly it doesn't matter much. The President gets to have his man, that is the custom and the norm. The quality and maturity of these men; is the measure of the man.These latter are a different matter. Political watch-dogging may be commonplace in large institutions, but when it reaches the level where the proper legitimate workings of a bureaucracy are breached this is malfeasance at the least. When it comes to reform of the abysmally in-adequate national intelligence programs one thing ought to be clear it doesn't matter how you restructure and re-invent the intelligence agencies. As long as men like John Bolton are arrayed on top of them they cannot be fruitful.

After a strange day on the hill Is John Boston Going Down? many more former co-workers have lent their rumors of working under him. Many of these stories tell of his berating people with lectures on professionalism, when always the issue at hand is professional analysts trying to include notes to intelligence products he has developed to cater to his prejudices.This manner of management in national security alarms people - and rightfully so. He has a long career where he has shown himself to an ideologue with a notion of the truth that pre exists any materialistic framework. He has one message. It's his truth out there, don't interfere with it.


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