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...PSLM’s exploits aren’t the most interesting example of what unpopular tactics can do. Forty-four years and three days before the Puker, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote a letter that would become famous. He was not attacking Southern mobs or Northern politicians. The targets of King’s letter were the liberal ministers and rabbis who had previously been some of his most powerful supporters. When King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference had moved into Birmingham to stage a civil disobedience campaign, the liberal clergy objected to King’s tactics...
...issues. This sorry state of politics today, which must change for the good of our country, is preventing any form of compromise. Though Republicans claim benevolent intentions, their motives are transparent; in the words of Sen. Thomas R. Carper, D-Del. and Herb Kohl, D-Wis., who wrote a letter to the Republicans, they are “trying to erase the ‘checks and balances’ that exist in our representative democracy, turning the Senate into a rubber stamp for the president...
...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. Mr. Bolton proceeded to chase me through the halls of a Russian hotel...
Bolton faces less partisan accusers as well. Nearly 60 retired diplomats, many of whom served under Republican Presidents, signed a letter to the committee opposing Bolton's confirmation. Frederick Vreeland, a former ambassador to Morocco who worked under Bolton when both were senior State Department officials in the Administration of Bush's father, sent an e-mail obtained by TIME to top committee Democrat Joseph Biden, saying Bolton "dealt with visitors to his office as if they were servants with whom he could be dismissive, curt and negative...
Houghton said he had not seen Bloom’s letter to Kanki...