Bolton's Pressure on C.I.A. Analyst Angered Colleagues

The New York Times > Washington > Bolton's Pressure on C.I.A. Analyst Angered Colleagues: "One former intelligence official said Mr. McLaughlin had 'laid his body down' to block the request from Mr. Bolton.
John C. Gannon, who preceded Mr. Cohen as chairman of the National Intelligence Council, said in an interview on Friday that he believed that Mr. Bolton's behavior had been 'inexcusable.'
'If you don't like the results of analysis, then you don't accept it,' said Mr. Gannon, who left government recently after serving as the Republican-appointed staff director of the Senate Homeland Security Committee. 'But you don't try to remove the people whose view you disagree with.'"