Rockefeller says Bolton mishandled classified docs; Dodd says he'll block [View All]

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the nomination on the floor until the issue is resolved.
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"On at least one occasion," Mr. Rockefeller said in the letter, Mr. Bolton appeared to have shared with another State Department official information that he had received from the security agency about an intercepted communication. Mr. Rockefeller said that Mr. Bolton appeared to have done that even though the security agency had directed that "no further action be taken on this information without prior approval of the N.S.A."

A Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, immediately announced this afternoon that he would seek to block any vote on Mr. Bolton by the full Senate until the committee was provided with further information about his handling of the classified information. (The committee forwarded Mr. Bolton's contentious nomination to the full Senate without endorsement last week, only the third time in 22 years it has done so.)