Ex-employee alleges mistreatment by Bolton/infant formula

[cal04]

In a new allegation against President Bush's nominee for United Nations ambassador, a woman who worked under John Bolton in the early 1980s has complained that he tried to fire her after they clashed over US policy on infant formula in developing nations. Lynne D. Finney, now a therapist in Utah, wrote to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Friday, saying Bolton mistreated her when they worked in the General Counsel's Office at the US Agency for International Development. Her accusation is the latest salvo in a pitched battle over Bolton's nomination.


Yesterday, Senator Barbara Boxer of California, a Democrat on the committee, distributed Finney's letter to reporters. An aide to Boxer said Democrats will push to include Finney's allegations in the list of claims to be probed.

In the letter, Finney said she was an attorney-adviser in the General Counsel's Office working on policies involving the UN Development Program when Bolton called her into his office in late 1982 or early 1983. She wrote that Bolton asked her to persuade delegates from other countries to vote with the United States to weaken World Health Organization restrictions on marketing of infant formula in the developing world.

Finney said she refused because improper use of the formula can be deadly. For example, mothers in the developing world sometimes mix it with contaminated water or dilute it to make it last longer, humanitarian groups say. Finney said that Bolton ''shouted that Nestle was an important company and that he was giving me a direct order from President Reagan." The Swiss company is among the top makers of formula. ''He yelled that if I didn't obey him, he would fire me," she wrote. ''I said I could not live with myself if even one baby died because of something I did. . . . He screamed that I was fired."

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/04/24/ex_employee_alleges_mistreatment_by_bolton/

[hedda_foil]

1. Well, well, well.

That the Reagan administration was carrying Nestle's water with their infanticidal baby formula policies for the third world, has been known from the beginning. Now we know exactly how it was carried out and by whom.

[Pachamama]

23. Unbelievable! What dirty work has this Bolton Fella not had his hands in?

Seriously! What next? What nefarious activity of our government has this guy not had his hands in?

Amazing...he even had his hands in the whole Nestle Baby Formula debacle...Wow!

Well, well, well indeed....

Keep em' coming folks! I think we have only scratched the surface of this creep....

[xultar]

2. Culture of Life! n/t

[Pirate Smile]

3. These are really some sick bastards!

[HockeyMom]

4. Remember that story

Must be getting old. There was a big furor over our pushing infant formula to third world countries; profits, profits, profits for the pharmaceutical companies. I was nursing my daughter at the time and belonged to LeLeche League. They were fighting the push for infant formula, stating not only that breast milk was healthier (and CHEAPER), but there was the danger as cited above that the powdered formula could be contaminated in third world countries. Yes, I remember all this from back then.

Bolton was involved in all this?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. I remember it well...we boycotted Nestle back then

[Daphne08]

41. I remember it, too!

[bobbieinok]

47. I remember it also....and Bolton was part of this???????????

[tsuki]

50. I still boycott Nestle.

[BrklynLiberal]

8. I was in that same position...and remember it too. Great person to be a

UN Amabassador..He was in effect, part of an attempted genocide.

[Rainscents]

5. I'm wondering why so many childerns are having health problems nowadays

here is one of the problem... This baster is one sick puppy! Good thing, I breast feed both of my childern in late 70's and early 80's.

[Bunny]

38. Well, unless you lived in a third world country at the time, your

children would not have been endangered by infant formula. I believe this issue involves the marketing of formula in undeveloped nations.

[HockeyMom]

39. Powdered formula to be mixed with water to be precise

Because the already premixed cans were too expensive for those third world countries. They pushed the powdered formula which had to be mixed with water, i.e., contaminated water.

[Bunny]

40. Yes, it was the powdered kind, that required clean water, in

order to be safe for infants.

[HockeyMom]

51. Even the sterile premixed cans would be a bad idea too

since the bottles the formula is put in have to be sterile too. So, if the bottle is contaminated, the sterile formula will become contaminated.

All around it's a bad idea for third world countries. But once again, PROFITS are put ahead of safety and people lives. We are seeing this attitude right now in our own country with the Bush administration.

[peacetalksforall]

6. More proof - we own the country, but they think the corporations do .

They also think they work for the corporations, not us. Some Dems are very good workers for corporations. THIS country is SICK

[dxstone]

9. Watch! He'll STILL be approved...

AND he'll end up getting his own reality show...
The Sorcerer's Apprentice?
Bolton: "You're fired!... and deported!... take her away to be rendered!"
Amarosa: "NOOOO!!!"

How do these MONSTERS stay in 'public service' for so MANY years?
They should investigate the shit out of him. They should start with his mustache; they'd prob'ly find bits of Jimmy Hoffa stuck in there...

BOL-TON WILL FIX UNITED NATIONS GOOD!



ALL HAIL BOL-TON THE DESTROYER!

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[wakeme2008]

10. This could be his down fall

A lot of women on both sides of the aisle care about baby health issues. And for Bolton to put a companies profits before them will not sit well.


DUers in Ohio and Rhode Island need to email this to every woman's group they know..... Something about a couple senators that need to be called.

:)

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. Bush sure know how to pick 'em

The worse you are has a human, the better your chances are for a promotion.

[applegrove]

12. Just more proof of Bush total disconnect with reality. He does not

see the evil within the cabal that surrounds him.

The neocons said in 1960s that they needed a patrician (good body language), protestant (repressed), prissy (sadistic rule-maker), naive (black & white thinker) person to be their president.

George Bush is a PATSY

He is their man. They have built the fool up so that he believes in his "all white light & good" persona.

He is a dangerous fool.

He can no longer tell right from wrong.

and he & his people squeal like a bunch of stuck pigs when reality (history) catches up to them and their Utopian (and cold, cold hearted) ideals are laid bare.

He is incompetent as a human being.

This calls for a law that says that psychological exams are needed for all world leaders & their close advisers.

George Bush remakes the world in the image of a bunch of sociopaths and thinks it is a good thing.

***hole.

George Bush must take responsibility for the appointment of Bolton.

[rodeodance]

13. I recall the infant formula and Nestle issue--now to find out Bolton was

one of the US promoters!!

[rodeodance]

15. an example of Bolton working against an international agency.

....She wrote that Bolton asked her to persuade delegates from other countries to vote with the United States to weaken World Health Organization restrictions on marketing of infant formula in the developing world.......

[marew]

14. You hit the nail on the head...precisely!

[rodeodance]

16. Lots of people will remember the Nestle boycott--this is big even if

happened a few decades ago. Bolton risks infants health then--has he changed??

[msanthrope]

17. Keep Repeating "This is the Cultrue of Life?" n/t

[rodeodance]

31. -no--this is the 'cult of life"

[freethought]

18. The Bolton nomination need more than to be derailed

This guy needs a straightjacket and a rubber room. I can understand someone generally being a jerk and possibly needing a good lay but Bolton is WAAAAYYYYY beyond that. He's almost sociopathic. In some ways you almost feel sorry for him.

[bleever]

19. This could be the clincher.

And I like the fact that he reveals the order was from Reagan.

Smooth, John.

[KlatooBNikto]

20. Has anyone considered the possibility that Bolton might be mentally

deranged?

[Demeter]

21. Even More Frightening and Worthy Of Concern

Ever think that they ALL are deranged, and what that means for US?

[freethought]

22. Maybe that's why they nominated him! n/t

[Extend a Hand]

48. I think this administration likes to nominate

people that have a shady or criminal past so that they can be controlled and blackmailed.

[Wizard777]

34. Uh

Would that be more so or less so than anyone else associated with Bush?

[applegrove]

35. It is called a 'cabal'. And it is about the evil ones and the patsy fools

who buy their crap.

[MADem]

37. Possibility? I say it is a damn certainty!!! n/t

[paineinthearse]

42. Maybe it's the psychological profile needed to rise in the *

administration.

[Bleacher Creature]

24. In the words of Mike Malloy

Have I told you lately how much I hate these people?

[brentspeak]

25. Bolton: Yale College Republican president, Vietnam draft-dodger

This guy is the epitome of the Chickenhawk/arrogant prick/supervisor-butt-kissing/employee-berating/will-do-anything-for-a-buck
Republican.

[IndianaGreen]

26. That "infant formula" killed thousands of babies in the Third World

John Bolton is nothing but a Nazi with a white mustache!

[leftofcool]

27. What is this fucker doing living on MY planet???? eom

[Bleacher Creature]

28. Hate to use the old "If this was Clinton" line . . .

but I'm going to anyway. If this all were happening when Clinton was President, would Bolton's nomination even be "clinging to life" or would it just be plain old dead?

[daleo]

29. Naturally Bolton is against mother's milk.

This is the very essence of a neo-conservative.

[Mountainman]

30. It was OK to feed the babies poison as long as they weren't aborted.

That is what gets me about the right. They say they are for life when the the baby is unborn but perfectly willing to kill them after they are born.

[Rainscents]

33. I get it now... Thugs needs babies so they can experiment on them.

This is so F@#ken SICK!

[aquart]

32. Nestle isn't even an AMERICAN corporation.

So Bolton is basically a foreign agent?

[spooky3]

36. But Mr. Cheney said none of these accusations had merit!

So I don't believe this one or the other hundred out there that people are too afraid to make public.

:sarcasm:

[Daphne08]

43. I hope the news picks up on this one because

even Republicans old enough ought to remember this incident with Nestle! Profit above all else!

[medeak]

44. when Drudge is reporting he's in trouble

I think he's dead in water

[MasonJar]

45. Remember that babies do not need formula until they are born,

and the fundies only care if a baby is born, not if they kill it later.

[DulceDecorum]

46. I said it before a few years ago and I will say it again:

Bush wants us ALL dead.

[dxstone]

49. I agree with ya, dude...

These people are evil incarnate... in the truly classical, mythological sense, with all its accompanying tragedy, death and destruction...
I found your page a good round-up of a lot of really important info; nice job...
You should try my site; with a cheery attitude like yours, I'm guessing you might like it...
D
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