He really should be made an honorary member of the Democratic staff of the Senate foreign relations committee. In the New York Times this morning, he again relies on Democratic leaks to provide a stilted portrayal of the allegations against Bolton. He leaves out that Alan Foley, the former head of the CIA’s weapons proliferation center, was asked if Bolton–in one of the key allegations against him–had attempted to bypass intelligence officer Fulton Armstrong when getting approval of his Cuba BW speech at the Heritage Foundation. Foley said Bolton didn’t try to by-pass anyone–and Foley never would have argued to such a request. Foley was asked if Bolton had a problem with any of his analysts. He said, on the contrary, Bolton was complimentary of his intelligence analysts, worked well with them, and was interested in what they had to say. He went on to say that the back and forth between Bolton’s office and his office was “normal.” But you can’t rely on Doug Jehl to report on these kind of things–it’s only all the news that fits to hurt the nomination of John Bolton.