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23 Oct 2019, 5:06 am by Scott R. Anderson
At the suggestion of then-National Security Advisor John Bolton, Taylor first sent a cable to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “describing the ‘folly’ I saw in withholding military aid to Ukraine” and stating that he “could not and would not defend such a policy” on August 29. [read post]
23 Oct 2019, 5:06 am by Scott R. Anderson
At the suggestion of then-National Security Adviser John Bolton, Taylor first sent a cable on Aug. 29 to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “describing the ‘folly’ I saw in withholding military aid to Ukraine” and stating that he “could not and would not defend such a policy. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 1:41 pm
The other day, I was blogging about tags, and somebody asked what are all the tags. [read post]
18 Dec 2019, 3:05 am by SHG
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has announced that it’s dead in the Senate, and has rejected Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s attempt to have John Bolton and Mick Mulvaney called as witnesses. [read post]
10 Apr 2019, 1:05 pm by Elena Chachko
Reports indicate that the move faced opposition from top Pentagon and CIA officials, who argued that it might trigger IRGC retaliation against U.S. personnel, but those objections were overruled by Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton. [read post]
14 May 2010, 8:13 am by Anna Christensen
David Savage offers a detailed recap of Kagan’s opposition to the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy in the Los Angeles Times. [read post]
7 Apr 2009, 12:44 pm
Second, there are views or histories that do disqualify someone from having an executive post, and not just the obvious ones like racism, sexism, violent temper (think “John Bolton”), criminal past, tax evasion (yes), or the like. [read post]
13 Aug 2020, 8:34 am by Jordan Schneider
As former National Security Adviser John Bolton writes in his book, “one of Trump's favorite comparisons was to point to the tip of one of his Sharpie [marker's] and say, 'this is Taiwan,' then point to [his desk in the Oval Office] and say, 'this is China.' So much for American commitments and obligations to another democratic ally. [read post]
4 Dec 2019, 9:00 am by Masha Simonova
Key individuals who refused to comply with the inquiry include Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, former National Security Adviser John Bolton, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought, and Rudy Giuliani. [read post]
4 Jan 2012, 1:22 pm by Blank Rome Government Relations
When President Bush recess appointed John Bolton as Ambassador to the United Nations, then-Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) said that a recess appointment was “the wrong thing to do,” and added that a recess appointee is “damaged goods… somebody who couldn't get through a nomination in the Senate. [read post]
20 May 2016, 9:08 am by John Elwood
John Elwood reviews Monday’s relisted cases. [read post]
12 Oct 2022, 5:31 am by Quinta Jurecic
” All this adds up to an unbroken habit on Trump’s part of trying to hamstring various inconvenient investigations—what another former national security adviser of his, John Bolton, memorably described as “obstruction of justice as a way of life. [read post]
10 Jul 2020, 11:16 am by J. Dana Stuster
Former National Security Adviser John Bolton has claimed that he briefed President Trump on intelligence about the program in March 2019, and officials have said that they are investigating whether a Taliban attack that killed three U.S. [read post]
4 Nov 2016, 4:39 am by Edith Roberts
Tom Cotton also “won’t endorse a strategy to indefinitely block any Supreme Court nominee from Hillary Clinton. [read post]
10 Jan 2020, 11:56 am by Jonathan Shaub
The third ground for the article, for example, lists nine officials who refused to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry at the direction of the president—Mulvaney, Blair, National Security Council (NSC) lawyers John Eisenberg and Michael Ellis, NSC official Preston Wells Griffith, Vought, Duffey, Energy Department aide Brian McCormack, and State Department official T. [read post]