A John Bolton story: Tribal Wars Inside the Bush Administration

[laststeamtrain]

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On a White House orchestrated conference call, a number of officials had been discussing a national security matter. One White House official in the phone conference apparently was supposed to go off the call before then Under Secretary of State for International Security and Arms Control John Bolton came on -- but the White House operator forgot to disconnect him (or her).

When the moderator of the meeting stated that the portion of the call with "X Person" had ended and the discussion with John Bolton would begin, Bolton allegedly said:

"I want to tell everyone on this call now, do not trust (that person)."

Well, the person was still listening, in utter shock. The person quickly hung up the call.

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Now Bolton is lobbying against Bush's Law of the Sea policy. He's been trying to undermine virtually every serious project at the Department of State -- from efforts to redirect Iran, the Six Party talks with North Korea, and the coming November Israel/Palestine Summit.

Bolton is the hardest working person in Washington now trying to undermine global stability, in much the same way he has been trying to undermine his former colleagues who serve the same President he served.

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002383.php

[pretzel4gore]

1. too bad the goof never told bolton 'we needa meet there, backstabber'

but NOOOOO! s/he hangsup and anxiously returns to engineering the burying alive of Iraq babies.
go john go!

[tanyev]

2. Holy crap.

I wish "X person" had turned on a tape recorder instead of hanging up.