John Bolton: Shameless Hypocrite, or Unintended Ironic?
As people across the country vote for a candidate to finally replace the scheming, intelligence-fixing architects of the Iraq quagmire, Bolton writes in the WSJ today, Our Politicized Intelligence Services:
Mr. McConnell should commit the intelligence community to stick to its knitting — intelligence — and return its policy enthusiasts to agencies where policy is made.
Bolton wants to “fix” the “politicization” of the intelligence committee — in other words, it’s failure to continue to march lock-step in support of Bush administration statements which directly conflict with intelligence assessments — by strictly enforcing the secrecy of National Intelligence Estimates against members of the intelligence community.
Funny stuff, coming from a key member of an administration which leaked partial and incomplete data to the New York Times, then quoted resulting stories as authority for the false propositions it planted.
Of course, if the Bush administration wants to leak select and misleading portions, they can be said to be merely “declassifying” material by executive fiat.
The utter disingenuousness of these people underscores why everyone needs to go out and vote for a President who won’t stock his cabinet and ambassadorships with liars, grifters, and mealy-mouthed ideologues.
UPDATE: Here’s a shocker — Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell on the veracity of John Bolton’s Op-Ed:
“the article you refer to is a gross misrepresentation of the professionalism of this community.”
But gross misrepresentation, after all, was the stock-in-trade of the administration in which Bolton served.
