Bolton Calls For Congressional Witch-Hunt Into Anti-Bush ‘People In The Intelligence Community’

[babylonsister]

So if the NIE goes against the neocon 'might makes right' world view, it must be wrong. Got it. :eyes:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bolton-nie-iran/

Bolton Calls For Congressional Witch-Hunt Into Anti-Bush ‘People In The Intelligence Community’

Yesterday’s National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) concluded that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003, pouring cold water on neoconservative calls for bombing Iran. Like his ideological kin Norman Podhoretz, former U.N. ambassador and Iran war hawk John Bolton has been attempting to slander the U.S. intelligence community’s collective judgments.

Iran has been pursuing nuclear weapons “for 20 years,” he defiantly declared today. To give weight to a single intelligence estimate “would be a mistake.” On Fox News today, Bolton went even further and called for a congressional investigation into U.S. intelligence agencies, stating that the report was politicized by intelligence officials who have their “own agenda”:

I really think the House and Senate Intelligence Committees have to look at how this NIE was put together because there are a lot unexplained points in here. <…>

I think there is a risk here, and I raise this as a question, whether people in the intelligence community who had their own agenda on Iran for some time now have politicized this intelligence and politicized these judgments in a way contrary to where the administration was going. I think somebody needs to look at that.

Watch it at link~

More...

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/bolton-nie-iran/

[goforit]

1. Send out the Pit Bull at all costs.

[annabanana]

2. He is Bat Shit Barking Mad.

Howling at the moon, feces gulping bonkers...

[Drum]

3. It ain't anti-Bush...it's pro-Truth. nt

[bdamomma]

19. pro truth, something that these thugs will never learn about.

[LakeSamish706]

4. I'm really glad that you posted this, because a question that I have of this is....

Why is any news organization (loosely defined) allowing this POS any air time at all? He was never sanctioned by Congress, but appointed during a recess appointment.... As far as I am concerned, he should be persona/non grata. Oh, and off the record, I seriously wonder what his brother Michael Bolton must think about him and his distructive ways!

[JohnnyLib2]

5. That was fast.

backlash, gonna be ugly. When is the next Repub. debate? That should be fun.

[bobthedrummer]

6. John Bolton is another domestic enemy of The United States of America eom

[Howardx]

16. amen

treason trial asap

[Reno.Muse]

7. The US intelligence community laughs at this administration and so do I

This took balls to come out with this report at this time. A big thank you to them.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

11. Agreed. Collectively they stood up to the cabal.

:applause: :patriot:

[Liberal In Texas]

15. Thank goodness there are still some patriots in or intelligence community.

The Emperor, indeed, has no clothes.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

8. Bolton needs to

STFU. He is an irrelevant, small-minded, mean-spirited a-hole with no agenda other than to instigate war.

[AuntPatsy]

9. Something very strange is going on, a squabble amongst the rabble themselves?

And if such is going on up on Capital hill how bad will the fallout be for the little people?

[Jacobin]

10. This man belongs in a straight jacket in a looney bin

[Faygo Kid]

12. These maniacs are capable of anything. They will attack Iran, no matter what.

They are raving lunatics with a warped worldview that allows no nuance whatsoever. They can't possibly wrap their arms around the fact that somehow, some way, an intelligence report reached the public that wasn't what they had expected it to be. Same with global warming, same with tax cuts increasing revenues. This next year will be one of the most dangerous in this nation's history, as this tiny cabal - with big power and influence - circles the wagons and prepares for Armageddon. The attack on Iran will be just one part of the insanity they have planned for us.

[Beetwasher]

13. LOL! Yeah, Congress'll Get Right On It, As Soon As All Their WH Subpoena's Are Satisfactorily

Answered. :rofl:

[Quixote1818]

14. God forbid the President not be able to lie to the American people

and continue to commit treason. :puke:

If it hadn't been for those meddling CIA agents! :argh:

[Adsos Letter]

17. Interesting...shades of the late 1930's Germany and Russia...

...I wonder if those being "scrutinized" will have their belts removed at trial...to further humiliate them by forcing them to hold their pants up before the court (obscure historical reference here)...

ON EDIT:...spelling... :dunce:

[Hotler]

18. Why does this man still have enough teeth to speak with??

Some where some how some of these neocons have to run into John Q. Public sometime. Yet none of them are seen with a broken nose or a fat lip.

[Adsos Letter]

20. Imagine their plight if they were in Jacksonian America...

...when your average citizen could still knock on the white house door and ask to see the president...

Last time I was there you couldn't get within hailing distance of the place...

[bobthedrummer]

21. John R. Bolton profiles

from Source Watch
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Bolton

from Right Web
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/972

Another Baltimore born leader, like the Krongard brothers and Nancy Pelosi

[Tom Joad]

22. i just started a thread about Bolton, and how he wanted to escalate

tension in Iran. Revealing off the record conversation with aipac groupie friends.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2413734&mesg_id=2413734

[Oilwellian]

23. Saw Bolton seething over this

Olbermann covered him, and Tweety did as well. Bolton was livid and accused state department employees of being behind it. LOLOL...personally, I think it was Poppy who knee-capped Junior & Cheney through Gates. Half of the 16 intelligence agencies are connected to the Pentagon. :D

[bobthedrummer]

24. kick

[marmar]

25. These Neocons are certifiably insane....

And silly moustache man is the most certifiably insane of them all. ...... He so desperately wants war with Iran, I wouldn't be surprised if started his own personal bombing campaign.