Monomaniac Who Would Be Ambassador

Few have more at stake in the expected Senate approval of John Bolton to be U.S. representative at the UN than the remnant of demoralized intelligence analysts trained and still willing to speak truth to power. What would be the point in continuing, they ask, when ­ like so many other policymakers ­ Bolton reserves the right to "state his own reading of the intelligence" (as he wrote to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee)?

Monomaniac Who Would Be Ambassador
Bolton Nomination Would Shatter Intelligence Analysts' Morale
By RAY McGOVERN
Former CIA Analyst
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