John Bolton Quotes
Accountability begins with transparency.
John Bolton, Assistant Secretary of State (Republican), U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations, “Stand Your Ground, Mr. Secretary”, The Washington Post, January 14, 2007
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The intelligence agencies had in many cases not shared critical information with the oversight committees and the White House and in a number of cases actually lied to them.
See Louis D. Brandeis for an earlier phraseology.
He believes that the best way to achieve that is to achieve that is to increased of eliminate campaign contribution limits. Bopp however is at odds with many leading Republicans over transparency which he supports. Others want secret and anonymous contributions.
At the time there was no Secrecy & Classification System nor any laws enforcing secrecy or confidentiality. However there was no freedom of information laws of expectations even on the part of journalists. This was the first Freedom of Information policy of the American government. Some politicians were more open than others but there was no national, governmental before this. There were however leakers and whistleblowers though the terms were not in use. Note that Roosevelt herein created the first whistle blower protection—himself.
John Robert Bolton is an American attorney, diplomat, Republican consultant and political commentator who served as the 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006 and as the 27th United States National Security Advisor from 2018 to 2019.
