Here are some highlights from Carl Frod’s Senate testimony in June, 2002. Ford previously served as Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research at the State Department.

On John Bolton’s 2002 Heritage Foundation speech, which came after Ford’s March 19th testiomny:

“When it came time for Mr. Bolton to give his speech a month or two later, he then took the same language that had been approved earlier by the community and stuck it into his Heritage speech. Both those were our words, the intelligence community’s words, not his”

Ford, who claims Bolton “intimidated” officials, had this to say in his ’02 testimony:

“Secretary Bolton invited the intelligence community to provide him with some words he could use in a speech on BW (biological weapons). He was very careful I think not to suggest words to the community for clearance. He asked them, what do you think? What do you say? So that they came up with the lines in the speech and presented those to INR to take back to Secretary Bolton for his use.”