Did anyone catch the segment on Fox News about the woman who is an Dodd aide who has been pulling tricks on the Bolton nomination and demanding that segments of Otto Reich's Q&A be removed?
I just caught the end of the report, and I'd sure like to know more.
Yes!!!
Janice O'Connell.
And so far I've found this:
Dodd's real problems with Bolton go beyond the U.N. While Democrats temporarily controlled the Senate in 2001, Dodd helped delay for two months Bolton's confirmation as under secretary for arms control. Bolton was finally confirmed, 57 to 43, with Dodd voting no.
A year later on May 6, 2002, Dodd exploded when Bolton's address to the Heritage Foundation reported "at least a limited offensive biological warfare research and development effort" in Cuba, sending technology "to other rogue states."
This revelation, Bolton has said, was long delayed by the presence at the Pentagon of a Castro spy, Ana Belen Montes, as senior Cuban intelligence analyst.
Bolton's disclosure threatened efforts by Dodd and his longtime Foreign Relations Committee staffer, Janice O'Connell, to normalize relations with Cuba. Dodd demanded a hearing with Bolton in
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/14/bolton/
Let's turn kcvl loose on her: Janice O'Connell
As the following editorial published in the Wall Street Journal on 13 December 2001 makes clear, the only reason Amb. Reich has not been on duty before now is because of an ideological vendetta waged against him by Senator Christopher Dodd, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Western Hemisphere Affairs Subcommittee. Even as ominous economic, political and/or strategic developments in Latin American nations like Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru have demanded expert and competent leadership from the U.S. government, Sen. Dodd has blocked the Reich nomination. Worse yet, he has maliciously sullied the name of the man President Bush knows can provide such leadership while denying Amb. Reich a hearing in which to rebut false charges. The Senator's motivation is transparent: He fears such a hearing would demonstrate to the world that it is Chris Dodd's deplorable record on hemispheric affairs -- not Otto Reich's estimable one -- that should be subjected to critical reviews.
Now that Sen. Dodd and his colleagues have finally left town, Mr. Bush should exercise his constitutional prerogative to make a recess appointment for Ambassador Reich to his State Department post. By so doing, he can simultaneously end a travesty of congressional abuse of power and give the Nation a man whose talents and abilities are more needed with every passing day.
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:n9z4FDKGgskJ:www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp%3Fsection%3Dpapers%26code%3D01-F_86+Janice+O%27Connell+Chris+dodd&hl=en
She demanded that his statement that it was HE who wanted the guy fired be removed from the record!
And he said it was Biden and Dodd's STAFF that is doing all the leaking and smearing!
Yes, I saw it and wish I'd taken notes.