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...seven weeks since Bush named him, Bolton has been getting reacquainted with some of those people he offended during a 24-year career in the Federal Government. They are, among others, the two intelligence analysts who claim that as a senior State Department official during Bush's first term, Bolton tried to have them fired or reassigned when they disagreed with him; the foreign-aid worker who says Bolton, then a private attorney, chased her down a Moscow hotel hallway in 1994 in an effort to intimidate her; and the former U.S. ambassador to South Korea who complained that Bolton...
Such charges have raised new questions about Bolton's treatment of subordinates, his pressure on intelligence analysts to support his views and the candor of his testimony. They also broke what had been unanimous G.O.P. support in the Senate for Bolton's nomination. The 10 Republicans on the Senate committee seemed ready to pass his nomination on to the full chamber until one of their own unexpectedly balked. "My conscience got me," said Ohio Republican George Voinovich in a declaration, rare for its spontaneity in political Washington, that put Bolton's confirmation on hold last week...
...hardest blow may have come two days later from Colin Powell, when word leaked with conspicuous speed across the capital that the former Secretary of State had privately conveyed his doubts about Bolton to two other wavering G.O.P. Senators. Powell reportedly praised Bolton's intellect and his work in some areas but told the Senators he had been troubled by the way Bolton had treated subordinates who did not agree with him. "Powell still carries a lot of weight with some of these guys," said an aide to a top Senate Republican who supports Bolton's nomination. And with...
...often the steady drip-drip of accusations that ultimately undermines embattled Washington nominees. But what's surprising about Bolton's precarious situation is that he may be undone more by the charges that he's a bully toward colleagues and underlings than by his strongly held conservative views about U.S. foreign policy and international institutions like the U.N. "We can't argue that this guy is unfit just because he's said mean things about the U.N.," conceded a top Senate Democrat. "Don't forget, most Americans agree with him." Though troubling to some Republicans, even allegations that Bolton...
...tales of Bolton's ferocious management style seemed to strike a toxic note. One charge came from Melody Townsel, who dispatched an impassioned e-mail to the committee about her encounters with Bolton while working for a private subcontractor on a 1994 U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) mission in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan. Townsel says she wrote a letter to AID officials complaining about the lack of funds for the project from the contractor, a company that had hired Bolton as a lawyer. "Within hours after dispatching that letter," Townsel told the committee, "my hell began...