Dean: Bush Must Not Use Recess Appointment for Bolton

[madfloridian]

http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/07/bolton_stonewal.php

Bolton Stonewalling Raises Even More Questions Dean: Bush Must Not Use Recess Appointment for Bolton

Washington, DC - "A State Department spokesman yesterday confirmed that President Bush's nominee to be United Nations ambassador, former Undersecretary of State John Bolton, failed to disclose in his Senate questionnaire that he has been questioned by investigators examining faulty prewar intelligence.

The State Department inspector general is conducting an internal probe with the CIA as to how false intelligence about Iraq's alleged attempt to secure uranium from Africa was used in the decision to invade Iraq more than two years ago.

In addition, Bolton has refused to reveal whether he testified before a grad jury swirling questions about his handling of a State Department memo that is believed by federal prosecutors to be a key source of information for individuals who improperly, and possibly illegally, disclosed the identity of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Bolton should not be appointed to the United Nations post until questions surrounding his involvement in these investigations have been answered:

"Failing to reveal his involvement in an ongoing State Department-CIA investigation in his Senate questionnaire, raises very serious questions about John Bolton's credibility. John Bolton and the Bush Administration must stop stonewalling and come clean about Bolton's role in these two investigations that have cast a dark cloud of corruption over the White House. To preserve any remaining confidence in the integrity of Bush's foreign policy team, Bush must not use a recess appointment to install Bolton at the United Nations."

[AntiCoup2K4]

1. It's not that I want Bolton in there, but on the other hand....

If the Chimp DOES put the bastard in, and then he gets busted for perjury, and then is linked to Rove. And (dreaming big here, I'll admit) from there it goes back to Monkey Boy himself....

It might almost be worth it. :evilgrin:

[On the Road]

3. My Thought Exactly

It will also be obvious to the world how much domestic opposition Bush faces if he couldn't get his own ambassador confirmed. Then when Fitzgerald causes the inevitable chaos, Bolton will be just one more piece of the puzzle.

[longship]

9. Relax, it won't matter if he appoints.

MonkeyBoy is already linked. There is *no* way that this investigation has gone on for the better part of two years that CuckooBananas is not involved. At this point, with the WH currently in total stonewall mode, there is a very apparent, very deep, and very organized cover-up.

Fitzgerald knows this. We don't need any further events to put Chimpy's shorts in a bunch. He's gonna go down for this and he knows it. To come clean now would expose two years of perjury, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to suborn perjury, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Just like in Watergate, that's why they have to continue the cover-up. They are caught in the same exact trap as Nixon was, a trap of their own making.

Does anybody think they would be in trouble with Rove/Plame now if the WH had come clean about it in the summer of 2002? I wonder how much the situation would have changed if they had done that. Would we have still gone to Iraq? Boggles the mind.

[gratuitous]

2. A recess appointment will have no credibility

And, if the investigation into Bolton's record turns up something, I dunno, let's say criminal in his background, then the office goes vacant again.

You can't say that you haven't been warned, Bush. Media, are you taking note? Or when Bolton blows up -- and you know he will -- will you simply repeat whatever administration claptrap is issued?

John Bolton resigned today to "spend more time with his family." No word from Bolton's family on whether they wanted to spend more time with him.

[dave29]

4. agreed

and agreed

[flordehinojos]

5. TO TELL BUSH NOT TO DO SOMETHING IS LIKE WAVING A RED FLAG IN FRONT OF HIM

a red flag that he will want to go ahead and charge more so than ever before! the mad cowboy rides again!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. I've got to wonder...

...when Dean types the words "the Bush Administration must stop stonewalling and come clean," what's going through his mind at the time.

Does he believe that Bush will ever do that?

Is he saying it just to keep the spotlight on Bush's atrocities, knowing full well that he'll never "come clean?"

I read that kind of stuff, and I applaud Dean for taking him to task, I'd just like five minutes of "face time" with him to ask the questions I've posted here.

I can't even imagine Bush having a "Lee Atwater Death Bed Repentance." He's gotten away with everything for his entire life. Short of impeachment, what the hell is going to make this little frat boy cheerleader Oedipal substance abusing war monger "come clean?"

[Disturbed]

8. Nothinig will force the Silverspoon Sociopath to come clean.

Shrub and the RW are true believers in "The ends justify the means." Everything they do is rationalized in their own hype as doing the best for Amerika. They don't give a rat's ass about Amerika. The notion of Amerika is a myth. The New World Order is Multi-Natl. This territory is no longer important to the Global Capitalists. Mult-Corps. hold no alliegance to Amerika or it's people and the RW Govt. is complicit in that concept.

[madfloridian]

7. Amazing.

And if Dean did not make a statement, others would be all over his back.