AAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHH!!!! The fucking fix is in! Cheney screws Biden, Lugar, and the whole Senate Foreign Relations Committee:
The word is out.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will not get the much-wanted National Security Agency intercepts in which John Bolton expressed so much interest during his tenure as Under Secretary of State for International Security and Arms Control. Under Secretaries with questionable intentions can get the transcripts -- but Senators with Constitutional oversight responsibilities seemingly cannot.
Dick Cheney and John Bolton's protectors are ever more committed to an imperial presidency -- unchallenged by other institutions of the U.S. government.
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Senators Lugar, Murkowski, Alexander, Voinovich, and Hagel are believers in the Republic and in their role in it. They will be cautious about yielding to administration abuse on this front -- because Lugar put his own credibility on the line in requesting those NSA intercepts.
Despite Lugar's good behavior towards the White House, Cheney has just clobbered the Foreign Relations Committee Chairman.
It's brewing.
More soon
The fact that the White House is blocking the Bolton NSA Intercepts suggests to me that there is a real smoking gun somewhere in those transcripts. After all, this action has the potential to piss off Dick Lugar -- which could lead to him throwing up his hands and allowing Biden to put off any vote on the Bolton nomination.
The White House wouldn't do this unless there was something truly explosive in those NSA intercepts, something that would unquestionably sink the Bolton nomination.
If one of your Senators serves on the Foreign Relations Committee, let them know what you think.