Senator Boxer's letter to the Condi on Bolton

[usregimechange]

Dear Secretary Rice:
According to reports in today's WashingtonPost, you have told senior members
of your staffthat you do not want "any infonnation coming out of the department that
could adversely affect the nomination" of John Bolton to be U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations. I hope this report is untrue.

The purpose of this letter is to ask you to issue an instruction to your department
stating that they will cooperate with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's bipartisan
investigation of John Bolton.

I am sure you are aware that Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution states that the
President is to appoint Ambassadors "by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate."
As such, the Senate is fully vested with the authority to investigate executive nominations
to ensure that they are qualified in tenns of experience, temperament, and conduct. In
addition, paragraph 1 of Rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate authorizes
Committees "to require by subpoena or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and
the production of such correspondence, books, papers, and documents." The Supreme
Court has upheld this authority, calling it, "an essential and appropriate auxiliary to the
legislative function."

If you have, in fact, instructed your staff or any other employee of the federal
government not to cooperate with this important investigation, I urge you to act
immediately to reverse such course.

I look forward to your immediate favorable response.

http://www.therandirhodesshow.com/randirhodes/rice.letter.pdf

[paineinthearse]

1. See earlier discussion at

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1735671#1735811

[mikelewis]

2. How much you wanna bet Condi has a voodoo doll of Boxer

with pins stuck in it's eyes. I adore Sen. Boxer, especially when she's getting in Rice's face.

[WearyOne]

3. just love Barbara Boxer !