John Bolton, R.I.P.: If Bolton intentionally misled the Senate in his questionnaire, he's toast ... source that Miller is protecting?

RAGGED THOTS: John Bolton, R.I.P.: "Saturday, July 23, 2005 |

John Bolton will never be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Whether he should be or not is no longer the question. Whether the 'temperament' charges against him were fair or if he was just a victim of Chris Dodd's pro-Cuba fetish doesn't matter.
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Then, as Josh Marshall points out, as part of her confirmation hearings for a State Department public relations position, Karen Hughes was, by law, obligated to answer a questionnaire, that among other things, asked whether there were any legal proceedings to which she might be a be part of: She admitted that she had testified before Fitzgerald's grand jury. Marshall points out, Bolton answered "no" on the questionnaire -- though, it turns out he also testified before the grand jury on the contents of the Plame memo.

If Bolton intentionally misled the Senate in his questionnaire, he's toast. End of story. But, that's relevant to the big picture.

The key is revealed in Clemons' latest post: He asserts that Bolton was a major source for NYT's Judith Miller, currently incarcerated for refusing to surrender a source's name to the Fitzgerald grand jury. Now, one has to toss in a couple of caveats here: Steve, of course, has to depend on an anonymous source that somehow "knows" that Bolton was an anonymous source for many of Miller's stories.
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