Cy Guy's Journal: Bolton Lackey Rigged Elections for Marcos in the Phillipines

The story or Matthew Freedman may finally be the shovel of dirt that buries the Bolton nomination. While others have noted the general sleaziness of having a lobbyist who admits he's not the most qualified candidate for the job working as a part-time $100k/year consultant for a federal agency, I'm most intrigued by one specific part of Freedman's resume:

"Republican election specialist Eddie Mahe was retained by the USG to analyze and defeat the Marcos election-rigging schemes.

"Meanwhile, Matt was among those helping the Marcos family to carry out such schemes.

Is anyone else intrigued by the fact that John Bolton, who was one of Bush's main tacticians in the FL recount battle, has been paying an underqualified consultant $100k/yr since then who had previous experience rigging elections for Marcos in the Phillipines?

Where

[Mantorp]

can I get a 6 figure part time job?

huh

[stoolpigeon]

Let me make a little disclaimer/qualifier real quick and then I have a question. I'm not real familiar with the current situation. I don't know a lot about Bolton or Freedman. I just hopped over to what you have linked and tracked that back a bit.

The question:
Is there anything to substantiate these claims about Freedman? All I can see is that he worked for the Marcos family. The USG played every side in that deal until they saw which way it would go-- didn't want to lose Subic or Clark.

So anyway-

Re:Interesting

[Cy Guy]

Bolton has been cited as the THE guy best suited to ferret out the corruption and cronism in the UN demonstrated in the Oil-for-Food scandal. Having an example of cronism for which you are the person directly in charge of the crony sort of puts the lie to that argument.