As usual, there is a group of Senators trying every tactic in the book to delay or shoot down the confirmation of John Bolton to the UN. According to this article in The New York Sun, individuals like Senator Christopher Dodd and Joe Biden continue to insist on this ridiculous claim that Bolton obtained the identity of US officials whose names were blanked out of NSA intercepts for nefarious reason.
The only problem is that Senator Roberts ad Senator Rockefeller of the Senate Intelligence Committee have written two letters proving that these allegations are really non starters. In Senator Roberts letter, the Kansan politician pointed out that Bolton's actions were not wrong and added that, Michael Hayden, the director of the NSA stated that they ""were not only appropriate, but routine," due to the fact that Bolton's 10 requests was not unusual since the combined State Department has requested such actions 490 other times during the same time period. Even Senator Rockefeller noted that in an earlier letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee:
"Based on my personal review of these reports and the context in which U.S. persons are referenced in them, I found no evidence that there was anything improper about Mr. Bolton's 10 requests for the identities of U.S. persons."Unfortunately, there will continue to be attempts to throw a monkey wrench into Bolton's confirmation vote. I guess the politics of "personal destruction" will get the best of partisans who despise Bolton for being John Bolton. Hopefully, the Republican Senate can toe the line on the Bolton vote unlike they did with the judges.
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