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John Bolton Citizen Arrest

On Wednesday 28th May 2008, I will attempt a citizen's arrest of John Robert Bolton, former Under-Secretary of State, US State Department, for the crime of aggression, as established by customary international law and described by Nuremberg Principles VI and VII."

James Wolcott's Blog: For Whom the Bell Trolls

In or out of mating season, John Bolton in full swollen umbrage is never an edifying spectacle, which makes it all the more puzzling that producers insist on providing this diplomatic reject and rage-aholic with a peddler's license to lie, bluster, and fearmonger.

Bolton quits as U.N. ambassador - Politics

Unable to win Senate confirmation, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton will step down when his temporary appointment expires within weeks, the White House said Monday.

GOP Senators' Bid to Confirm Bolton Is Called Off

Republican efforts to formally confirm John R. Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations hit an unexpected snag yesterday when a Republican Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee (R.I.) in a tough reelection bid said he could not support the diplomat until the Bush administration answers his questions on Middle East policy. "It is no secret that I have serious questions about this Administration's policies in the Middle East," Chafee wrote.

Senate panel scrubs vote on Bolton as U.N. envoy

A U.S. Senate committee scrubbed its planned vote on Thursday on keeping John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations, as a key Republican remained undecided on the nomination by President George W. Bush. Rhode Island Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee, the only Republican who has not publicly committed to supporting Bolton, sought more time, members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said. Chafee, locked in a tough re-election bid, faces a Republican primary election on Tuesday.

Revoltin' Bolton

or years John Bolton has been causing trouble with his aggressive style and committed aversion to international law or compromise. Since he serves as the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. only through a duplicitous temporary presidential appointment, he has been compelled to again to submit to the indignity of questioning by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Clearly Ambassador Bolton is offended by this exercise, and evidently does little to conceal his contempt for the proceedings and its participants. Doesn t this arrogance just illustrate the problem with Bolton again?

Praise at Home for Envoy, but Scorn at U.N.

My initial feeling was, let s see if we can work with him, and I have done some things to push for consensus on issues that were not easy for my country, said an ambassador with close ties to the Bush administration. But all he gives us in return is, It doesn t matter, whatever you do is insufficient, he said. He s lost me as an ally now, and that s what many other ambassadors who consider themselves friends of the U.S. are saying.

Praise at Home for Bolton, but Scorn at U.N.

The Bush administration is not popular at the United Nations, where it is often perceived as disdainful of diplomacy, and its policies as heedless of the effects on others and single-minded in the willful assertion of American interests. By extension, then, many diplomats say they see Mr. Bolton as a stand-in for the arrogance of the administration itself.

UN Ambassador Bolton jeered at Oxford

Facing an increasingly hostile group of law students in an Oxford seminar that had somehow gone dreadfully wrong, beads of sweat began to pop out on John Bolton's furrowed brow. Amidst a rising chorus of taunts, jeers, hisses and outright denunciations, Bolton was swiftly surrounded by his entourage of three American security agents and whisked out the door of the seminar room at Oriel College on Friday, the 9th of June.

At the U.N., Bluster Backfires

John R. Bolton has been and still is an embarrassment. The United States needs an ambassador who can work with the United Nations.

UN comments trigger row with US

The UN's Mark Malloch Brown said Washington did not stand up for the UN against domestic critics and used the organisation as a diplomatic tool. John Bolton called the remarks "a very, very grave mistake" and called on Kofi Annan to repudiate his deputy's speech.

Bolton compares Iran threat to 9/11

Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that s the threat. I think that is the threat, UN Ambassador John Bolton said. I think it s just facing reality. It s not a happy reality, but it s reality and if you don t deal with it, it will become even more unpleasant.

Bolton loses British backing for UN tactics

"You're either with him or against him," said one British diplomat.