Associated Press reports that after weeks of denials, the State Department acknowledged tonight that contrary to assurances provided a Senate committee, the Bush administration’s nominee for the position of US ambassador to the UN lied on a form asking whether he had been interviewd for or testified to a grand jury in any investigation during the past five years.

John Bolton, President Bush’s nominee for U.N. ambassador, mistakenly told Congress he had not been interviewed or testified in any investigation over the past five years, the State Department said Thursday.

Bolton was interviewed by the State Department inspector general in 2003 as part of a joint investigation with the Central Intelligence Agency into prewar Iraqi attempts to buy nuclear materials from Niger, State Department spokesman Noel Clay said.

Obviously the Undersecretary of State for Keeping Track of Which Officials Have Been Interviewed for Investigations is in dire need of a Bolton-style ass-kicking for failing to remind the nominee of the investigation into that obscure Iraq-Niger-Uranium affair.

There isn’t really any defense for the “oversight,” but fortunately for Bolton, Bush nominees aren’t required to defend their actions. With his nomination dead in the Senate waters anyway, nothing short of a videotaped morals crime can derail the recess appointment that seems more and more likely. And even then, the tape would be challenged and Bolton would remain in office as the case wended its way through federal court.

There really is no bottom floor.

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