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Bolton Accuser a Serial Plagiarizer Yesterday we noted a post at Daily Kos from John Bolton accuser Melody Townsel, in which she admitted committing plagiarism while working at the Abilene Christian University student newspaper, the Optimist. The ACU Optimist has a report on this today, with the revelation that Townsel was also involved in another plagiarism incident at the University of Texas at Arlington: Former student acknowledges past plagiarism. Townsel left ACU soon after being removed from the Optimist to continue her undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she worked for the student newspaper, the...

The woman whose testimony now threatens to derail John Bolton's nomination as U.N. ambassador claims he was "genuinely behaving like a madman" during a 1994 trip to Moscow. But she's a self-described "liberal Democrat" who helped organize the Dallas chapter of "Mothers Opposing Bush" during last year's presidential campaign. Story Continues Below Melody Townsel first offered her bizarre allegation to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 8, in a letter claiming that during a trip ten years ago to Kyrgyzstan, Bolton chased her through the halls of a her hotel throwing objects and screaming threats. In her unlikely account...

01/25/05  A Day in the Life in North Oak CliffI awake to find several urgent e-mails from neighbors alerting me to three separate, serious criminal incidents that occurred in the last couple of days here in North Oak Cliff.  I read and quickly dispatch them to neighbors who share my concerns about our rising crime rate, then hop into the car to take my 5 year old to school.  I back out of my driveway onto our street, Winnetka Avenue, the street where Oscar Sanchez was kidnapped last week. I dodge three major potholes on the way to I-35, wait...

tuesday, april 26, 2005 Bolton Accuser Admits Plagiarism at Daily Kos The movement to smear and discredit John Bolton is melting down. Bolton accuser Melody Townsel, former leader of Mothers Opposing Bush, is about to get outed as a plagiarizer, and she's whining about it to the people who understand her best-the lunatics at Daily Kos: Important Melody Townsel revelation - PLEASE DISSEMINATE. (Hat tip: DANEgerus.) Hello, Daily Kos-ers: Tonight, my deepest fears regarding my pending testimony in the John Bolton nomination process have come true: Republicans have dredged up un unfortunate chapter of my life and, clearly, are about...

Public relations executive Melody Townsel became the focus of media attention last week by accusing U.N. ambassador nominee John Bolton of once chasing her down a hotel hallway in Moscow while screaming and throwing things. But that's not the first time Townsel has been in the news. In fact, the former leader of Mothers Opposing Bush has quite a knack for attracting press coverage, even when it comes to the most mundane details of her personal life. Like the New York City apartment she rented a few years after returning from the Russia trip. Somehow Townsel got the Village Voice...

"The Constitution Is What The Judges Say It Is." - Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes. "Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge." - New York Senator Charles Schumer Both Tom Delay and John Bolton are "up against it," as the libs break out their Big Guns like Charles Schumer and the White Anita Hill - Melody Townsel - to smear these men of renown. The same Dems who fled Texas to avoid doing their job in 2003 are playing the part of the spoiled rich girl (Barbara Boxer...

I have a little more info on Melody Townsel. When asked to explain why she did not bring allegations against Bolton during any of his previous confirmation hearings, Townsel claims she was “too busy” raising her children and had stepped out of politics. However, during the time Townsel claims she devoted to raising her children, she was in fact working for the very large public relations firm Ogilvy. She was so committed to her work that she became a senior VP and collected more than $1.5 billion in revenues for the company. In addition, Townsel worked on “whistleblower” issues for...

As I reported earlier, International Business and Technical Consultants President Jayant Kalotra wrote a letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee defending Bolton’s actions in Moscow concerning “Mothers Opposing Bush” volunteer Melody Townsel. Now, before anyone tries to imply Kalotra is just another conservative Bolton supporter, consider these facts: In the past five years, Kalotra has donated over $16,000 to political candidates, all Democrats, according to FEC records. That includes more than $3,000 to New Jersey Democratic congressman Frank Pallone, $3,000 to Dick Gephardt, $500 to Al Gore, $5,000 to the DNC, $1,000 to Maryland congressman Albert Wynn and $1,000...

Another Bolton letter to the committee. this one is from a man named Bharat Bhargava, who worked for IBCTI in Moscow. Here are the delectable tidbits for fellow Bolton nomination-battle obsessives (and my apologies to those readers who aren’t): 2. IBTCI Moscow office was in a huge room on the first floor of the Aerostar hotel with a large number desks for American and Russian staff members working on multiple projects. Aerostar, a very large hotel with well lit large corridors and hallways, was a hub of many activities involving other Americans and foreigners as well. So, I personally see...