How big a deal was Tuesdays announcement by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee?
But what is being alleged here is not management style, so much as whether or not he pressured intelligence officers to change their intelligence, whether he lied to the committee when he said he only casually stopped by the CIA to check on one of the intelligence officers rather than repeatedly going to the agency as a matter of appointment and schedule. And whether he lied when he talked about other aspects of his past history. So, these are all questions that were troubling enough that one of the Republican members, Sen. George Voinovich from Ohio, said that in good conscience he simply couldn’t vote for Bolton. With Voinovich bolting from the Republican ranks, that meant that Chairman Richard Lugar could not win a majority vote for Bolton in committee to report it out to the floor. Under committee rules, all committee rules in the Senate, a tie vote would force the committee to hold onto this nomination, rather than reporting it out. With that as the prospect, he decided it was bet
