"Staff members on the committee [vetting Bolton] believe that Bolton was spying on Powell, his senior advisers and other officials reporting to him on diplomatic initiatives that Bolton opposed." Blumenthal continues that "it is also possible that Bolton was sharing this top-secret information with his neoconservative allies within the Pentagon and the vice-president's office, with whom he was in daily contact and who were known to be working in league against Powell." read more ...The committee has demanded that the State Department release the intercepts to members of the committee. But Secretary Rice has refused the committee's requests.
On a related issue a letter co-signed by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar and Ranking Member Joseph Biden requesting that the 10 NSA intercept transcripts requested by John Bolton during his tenure as Under Secretary of State be made available to Senators and cleared senior Committee staff.
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