Libya the Subject of One Bolton NSA Intercept Request (Wash. Note)

[Roland99]

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/000700.html

John Bolton so irritated British negotiators who were working on a resolution to Libya's WMD programs that they asked the American team on Libya to remove John Bolton from the case. Bolton was dropped.

TWN has now learned from a highly placed intelligence source, "with direct knowledge," that one of the 10 intercept requests made by John Bolton was about Libya. The identity of the U.S. official requested by Bolton was William Burns, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs.

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First, Bolton was NOT on a need-to-know basis in the Libya case. He had been removed from that portfolio.

Second, this shows that Bolton was in fact spying on his colleagues and their work. In this case, Bill Burns was his target.

[realFedUp]

1. Someone should tell Joe Biden

Bolton seemed to have his fingers in
a lot of matters....

[mom cat]

2. Go for it!

[ewagner]

3. This, alone, is reason to deny

his appointment

John Bolton so irritated British negotiators who were working on a resolution to Libya's WMD programs that they asked the American team on Libya to remove John Bolton from the case. Bolton was dropped

This is what we want in a diplomat?????? I hardly think so.

[Roland99]

4. He's obviously a man of high integrity and principle

:sarcasm:

[James T. Kirk]

5. Bolton would be another Adlai Stevenson!

"Don't wait for the translation!"
"I'm prepared to wait until hell freezes over!"

Imagine another UN ambassador yelling at and hectoring other ambassadors. Is that the kind of person we want dealing with tyrants, corrupt officials and human rights abusers? I think not!

[struggle4progress]

6. kick