NOMINATION -- BOLTON MAY HAVE LIED UNDER OATH

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NOMINATION -- BOLTON MAY HAVE LIED UNDER OATH

During his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Bolton testified under oath that he "made no effort to have discipline imposed" on a CIA
analyst who had disagreed with his intelligence assessments. Yet a report
released yesterday by minority committee members reveals that Bolton
actually " pushed for months to have the analyst removed from his job or
otherwise disciplined
(http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-05-18-bolton_x.htm) ," the
Associated Press reports.


Bolton and State Department ally Otto Reich
went so far as to draft a letter to then-CIA Director George Tenet that
" urged the immediate replacement
(http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/19/politics/19bolton.html?hp&ex=1116475200&en=8e13f6ac34f8fc05&ei=5094&partner=homepage)
" of the analyst, Fulton Armstrong, and indicated that Bolton and Reich
"would take several measures on their own, including excluding Mr.
Armstrong from official meetings at the State Department and official
travel in the Western Hemisphere."