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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]John Bolton Skewed Intelligence, Say People Who Worked With Him
Former colleagues say the next national security adviser — whose job is to marshal information and present it to the president fairly — resists input that doesn’t fit his biases and retaliates against people he disagrees with.

But many foreign policy experts, including some who worked closely with him, argue that the more significant issue for Bolton’s new role may be his history as a consumer of intelligence that does not conform to his views, and the lengths to which he has sometimes gone to try to suppress analyses that he sees as wrong or misinformed.

An examination of Bolton’s record, based on interviews with some of his former colleagues and the Senate hearings on his nomination in 2005 to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, reveal a tendency to aggressively embrace intelligence that supported his positions, while discounting information that undercut those views. The confrontations that arose from that approach have often been ascribed to partisanship or sharp elbows, but even some conservative veterans of the Bush administration accused Bolton of exaggerating, minimizing or cherry-picking intelligence information to bolster his policy positions, and of retaliating to try to silence intelligence professionals with whom he disagreed.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.propublica.org/article/john-bolton-national-security-adviser-intelligence/amp

It’s amazing, the people some Democrats will suddenly embrace. The only prerequisite is they disagree with Trump. I daresay Hitler could be reincarnated and as long as he denounced Trump, he’d be welcomed into the fold.[/quote]
Something I'm sure you cared about when they were stirring up tensions with Iran.

This is one of the tactics a PP alluded to above that the Republicans would take. Rule #1: Discredit the Witness![/quote]

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