Senator Hagel Employs One of John Bolton's Victims

April 15, 2005
Senator Hagel Employs One of John Bolton's Victims
Steve Clemons
How did John Bolton think he was going to get away with the emphatic testimony he gave that he did not try to get any one removed or fired from their positions and never, in any way, tried to meddle with the intelligence findings with which he was being provided by State Department intel officers?

He lied to Congress. He's done it before -- but there is certainly something odd about sending someone to deal with transparency, corruption, and management problems at the United Nations when he himself seems to operate with so many of the same behaviors as the institution he is criticizing.

Now, it turns out that Senator Hagel's foreign policy advisor, a detailee from the State Department, is one of the unnamed victims of John Bolton....