Bolton: NIE was Politics Disguised as Intelligence

Every time he opens his mouth, I am more impressed with John Bolton. Vice Presidential material? Who knows, but if I were in the Oval Office, I certainly would not mind having Bolton on hand in a crisis.

I have been saying all along that this NIE house of cards was little more than yet another case of the CIA and State Departments trying to sabotage its President, and Bolton does litttle to discredit this argument (emphasis mine):

U.S. intelligence services attempted to influence political policy by releasing their assessment that concludes Iran halted its nuclear arms program in 2003, said John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Der Spiegel magazine quoted Bolton on Saturday as alleging that the aim of the National Intelligence Estimate, which contradicts his and President Bush's position, was not to provide the latest intelligence on Iran. "This is politics disguised as intelligence," Bolton was quoted as saying in an article appearing in this week's edition.

Bolton described the report, released Monday, as a "quasi-putsch" by the intelligence agencies, Der Spiegel said.