The New York Times hits Bolton on Syria today. This passage is typical. Bolton is guilty of proposing going beyond the intelligence, although he ultimately didn’t:

“One newly declassified message, dated April 30, 2002, and sent by a senior State Department intelligence official, dismissed as `a stretch’ language about a possible Syrian nuclear program that had been spelled out in a draft speech circulated by Mr. Bolton’s aides for approval. In the speech itself, delivered five days later, Mr. Bolton made no reference to a Syrian nuclear program.”