Top Romney Adviser Bolton Calls Bachmann’s Anti-Muslim Witch Hunt ‘Legitimate’

[Purveyor]

Appearing on a radio show on Tuesday, John Bolton, presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s top foreign policy adviser, defended Rep. Michelle Bachmann’s (R-MN) call for an anti-Muslim witch hunt investigation to determine whether U.S. officials have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

“What I think these members of Congress have done is simply raise the question to a variety of inspectors general in key agencies,” Bolton told former Bachmann campaign adviser Frank Gaffney, the man most frequently credited with inspiring Bachmann’s latest anti-Muslim conspiracy. “Are your departments following their own security clearance guidelines, are they adhering to the standards that presumably everybody who seeks a security clearance should have to go through, are they making special exemptions? What is wrong with raising the question? Why is even asking whether we are living up to our standards a legitimate area of congressional oversight, why has that generated this criticism? I’m just mystified by it.”

The former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations defended Bachmann’s call for an anti-Muslim witch hunt after conspiracy talk show host Glenn Beck, Republican talk show host Rush Limbaugh and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) took Bachmann’s side, even though other top Republicans like Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Reps. John Boehner (R-OH) and Mike Rogers (R-MI) have publicly come out against her comments.

And while Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD), who both sit with Bachmann on the House Intelligence Committee, joined the chorus of criticism on Wednesday, they might not matter as much as they’d hope thanks to the Romney campaign’s top foreign policy adviser calling an anti-Muslim witch hunt a “legitimate area of congressional oversight.”

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[Scuba]

1. That alone should be sufficient evidence to discredit Bachmann's claims.

[hifiguy]

2. "Yosemite Sam" Bolton has never known his ass from

a hole in the ground. This is yet more proof.

[siligut]

3. Xenophobia can be used as a strong unifier

I would say this is much more of a political ploy than a real foreign security concern.

[rustydog]

4. John Bolton, the John Bolton? PNAC John Bolton

another tough-talking empty suit pseudo intellectual who was one of the "smart people"who handled Bush...Way to go Romney. Keep confirming to us how unqualified you are in good decision-making skills!

What'snext, a Mission Accomplished banner upon return from Anglo-Saxon Europe?

[Spazito]

5. Well, that's not surprising...

one delusional, despicable POS defending another one. One a republican House member, the other a top foreign policy advisor to Romney. Speaks volumes, imo.

[Marrah_G]

6. Wow - they don't even both to hide it anymore

[MattBaggins]

7. The fact thatRomeny would ressurect that idiot from the dustbin

of has-beens ought to disqualify him from being president.

[ProSense]

9. He should be asked directly about Bolton. n/t

[pinboy3niner]

8. Pretty generous of Bolton, actually

Bachmann could be his top rival for the Secretary of State nomination in an Rmoney administration.

[MIDNITERIDER1438]

10. Who ever let this necon neanderthal near our government ?

just another attention getter to get on the book tour or lecture circuit. So unabashedly philistine, though !

[Ikonoklast]

11. He's certifiable.

The Universe that encompasses John Bolton's Reality is populated by a grand total of one person.