Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Bush calls for more transparency and accountability... Just so long as it's not his administration that has to provide it.
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"We want more accountability and transparency and less bureaucracy, and John Bolton will help to achieve that mission," Bush told reporters at an appearance with European Union leaders at the White House.
Democrats said they would continue to block Bolton's nomination until the White House produces records of communications intercepts he sought from the National Security Agency. The White House has refused, citing executive privilege.
Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, said the records could clear up allegations that Bolton used them to spy on "rivals in the bureaucracy, both inferior and superior to him."
Bush, asked Monday about a recess appointment for Bolton, did not answer the question. (A recess appointment allows the President to appoint someone without congressional approval.)
Asked about that prospect (of a recess appointment for Bolton) in an interview with "Fox News Sunday," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, "We'll see what happens this week."
So Bushies… Tell me again about that transparency and accountability?
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"We want more accountability and transparency and less bureaucracy, and John Bolton will help to achieve that mission," Bush told reporters at an appearance with European Union leaders at the White House.
Democrats said they would continue to block Bolton's nomination until the White House produces records of communications intercepts he sought from the National Security Agency. The White House has refused, citing executive privilege.
Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, said the records could clear up allegations that Bolton used them to spy on "rivals in the bureaucracy, both inferior and superior to him."
Bush, asked Monday about a recess appointment for Bolton, did not answer the question. (A recess appointment allows the President to appoint someone without congressional approval.)
Asked about that prospect (of a recess appointment for Bolton) in an interview with "Fox News Sunday," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, "We'll see what happens this week."
So Bushies… Tell me again about that transparency and accountability?
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# posted by The Punisher @ Tuesday, June 21, 2005 
