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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