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- A Nuclear Blunder? John Bolton didn't prepare for nonproliferation conference, Newsweek
- Flynt Questions State Department: Bolton's Wife Forced into Group Sex?,, larryflynt.com
RHINO HERE:
Wasn't planning to blog today but two 11th hour accusations on John Bolton
changed my mind. They come from sources that 1 person or another could consider
disreputable (Newsweek & Larry Flint) but the Rhino thinks them both worthy of
your brief attention.
Here's hoping the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee comes to their senses & dumps
him.
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A Nuclear Blunder?
Critics say U.N. Ambassador-designate John Bolton didn't properly prepare for
a key nonproliferation conference, which could be a serious setback in U.S. efforts
to isolate Iran.
May 11 - George W. Bush has said it often enough. The No. 1 security challenge
for America post-9/11 is to prevent nuclear weapons from falling into the hands
of terrorists or rogue regimes. In a landmark speech at the National Defense
University in February 2004, the president called for a toughened Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty and other new initiatives. "There is a consensus among nations that
proliferation cannot be tolerated,' Bush said. 'Yet this consensus means little
unless it is translated into action." By action Bush meant the hard work of
diplomacy, John Bolton, the president's point man on nuclear arms control,
told Congress a month later. For one thing, America needed to lead an effort
at "closing
a loophole' in the 35-year-old NPT, Bolton testified back then. The treaty's
provisions had to be updated to prevent countries like Iran from enriching
uranium under cover of a peaceful civilian program — which is technically
permitted under the NPT — when what Tehran really sought was a bomb, according
to the administration.
But if the NPT needed so much fixing under U.S. leadership, why was the United
States so shockingly unprepared when the treaty came up for its five-year review
at a major conference in New York this month, in the view of many delegates?
And why has the United States been losing control of the conference's agenda
this week to Iran and other countries — a potentially serious setback
to U.S. efforts to isolate Tehran? Part of the answer, several sources close
to the negotiations tell NEWSWEEK, lies with Bolton, the undersecretary of
State for arms control. Since last fall Bolton, Bush's embattled nominee to
be America's
ambassador to the United Nations, has aggressively lobbied for a senior job
in the second Bush administration. During that time, Bolton did almost no diplomatic
groundwork for the NPT conference, these officials say. "John was absent without
leave" when it came to implementing the agenda that the president laid out
in his February 2004 speech, a former senior Bush official declares flatly...
MORE: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7817986/site/newsweek
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John R. Bolton Court Divorce Records Show His First
Wife Fled Home When He Was Traveling Abroad
Publisher Larry Flynt's Questions Posed to State Department Regarding Corroborated Allegations that First Wife was Forced into Group Sex go Unanswered
LOS ANGELES-Court records concerning the divorce of John R. Bolton, the Bush administration's nominee to become the next ambassador to the United Nations, show his first wife fled the couple's marital home when he was traveling abroad in mid-August 1982. The records further show that she took most of the couple's furniture. Corroborated allegations that Mr. Bolton's first wife, Christina Bolton, was forced to engage in group sex have not been refuted by the State Department despite inquires posed by Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt concerning the allegations. Mr. Flynt has obtained information from numerous sources that Mr. Bolton participated in paid visits to Plato's Retreat, the popular swingers club that operated in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
"The first Mrs. Bolton's conduct raises the presumption that she fled out
of fear for her safety or, at a minimum, it demonstrates that Mr. Bolton's
established inability to communicate or work respectfully with others extended
to his intimate family relations," said Mr. Flynt. "The court records alone
provide sufficient basis for further investigation of nominee Bolton by the
Senate." (Click
here for court records). Mr. Flynt continued, "The U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations must be free of any potential source of disrepute or blackmail." Mr.
Flynt has contacted the State Department asking that they confirm or deny the
allegations of Mr. Bolton's prior conduct concerning his wife and the alleged
paid visits to Plato's Retreat. He has also called upon the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee to conduct an inquiry into the very serious evidence concerning his
first wife's fear of him. Neither the State Department nor the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee has yet responded to Mr. Flynt's inquiries...
MORE AT: http://www.larryflynt.com/bolton
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