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...become the stuff of bitter controversy during the presidency of George W. Bush. Career State Department officials were hesitant to confront the North with the intelligence in the fall of 2002 that there was a program for highly enriched uranium (HEU), while Bush Administration officials, such as John Bolton - one of the so-called neocons, then serving as Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs - wanted to use it (and did) as "the hammer I had been looking for to shatter" the nuclear deal done by the Clinton Administration, as Bolton once put it. Once...
Clinton, Bill • two American journalists are freed from North Korean jail thanks to the diplomatic efforts of, which, of course, greatly upsets the ultimate undiplomat John Bolton and the nasty little troll Dick Morris...
...security case to the President. Cheney didn't lose every fight, but he was no longer winning them all either. And his backup vanished. Pentagon official Paul Wolfowitz moved to the World Bank in early 2005. Libby was indicted in October of that year and left the government. John Bolton resigned his post as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. the same month Rumsfeld left the Pentagon in 2006. Cheney's allies no longer manned the key points in the national-security flow chart. "Cheney," says an ally, "had to fight much harder...
...probably more powerful, influence in Beijing is the international department of the Chinese Communist Party, which tends to be pro-Pyongyang. Those two factions often struggle to influence the decisions of the senior leadership in Beijing, whose "red lines" seem to be a "constantly moving target," as John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., puts...
...Beijing is the international department of the Chinese Communist Party, which tends to be pro- Pyongyang. Those two factions often struggle to influence the decisions of the senior leadership in Beijing - whose "red lines" when it comes to Pyongyang seem to be a "constantly moving target," as John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. under Bush, puts...