Where in the World is John Bolton

We have been suggesting that perhaps it was not a coincidence that just as the Plame affair blew up in the administrations face John Bolton disappeared from the face of the earth. We have also suggested that Judith Miller is sitting in prison not because she is protecting a source but protecting herself because she was involved in Plame's outing herself. Now from Steve Clemons at The Washington Note we have this:

TWN has just learned from a highly placed source -- and in the right place to know -- that John Bolton was a regular source for Judith Miller's New York Times WMD and national security reports.

The source did not have any knowledge on whether Bolton was one of Miller's sources on the Valerie Plame story she was preparing, but argues that he was a regular source otherwise.

The first clue was the documents the White House refused to give the Senate. Could there have been something there about Plame? Then as the Plame issue heated up Bolton disappeared, after the White House made a complete ass of Bill Frist of course. Judith Miller has been nothing but the Bush administration's propaganda machine representative at the New York Times leading many of us to believe she was a participant in the attempts to discredit Joe Wilson. Now it appears that John Bolton was one of Miller's primary contacts/sources for her propaganda pieces in the Times. As I suggested here Karl Rove may not be the really big fish here.