In a statement seen by the New York Times newspaper, Mr Bolton told the panel a policy maker should maintain the right to "state his own reading of the intelligence", even when it differed from that of intelligence agencies.
BBC: Accusations that Bolton is a poor manager have been denied
As one of the few financial victors in online news media, she is also a de facto policy maker and a new kind of power broker.
Senator CHRISTOPHER DODD (Democrat, Connecticut): It is very uncommon for a policy-maker to seek raw data.
The cost of reversing the policy "wouldn't be insignificant, " said Leonard Farber, a former senior policy maker in Canada's finance department and now an adviser at global law firm Norton Rose.
Eagleburger stated that as a future policy-maker, he would not approve the transfer of high-speed communications equipment to the Soviet Union.
He's been a key health policy maker throughout the Bush administration.
"She was one of the greatest citizens of our country of the past half-century, " said Robert McNamara, defense secretary under Kennedy and Johnson who was a major Vietnam policy maker during the period chronicled by the Pentagon Papers.
Particularly noteworthy in light of the present controversy surrounding the quality, reliability and need for reform of U.S. intelligence is the fact that Constantine was one of a relatively few individuals who served with great competence in both senior ranks of the intelligence community and as a top policy-maker.
Such a predisposition is not, however, one to be sought in a senior Defense Department policy-maker.
Known more as a shrewd political manager rather than as an innovative policy-maker, Ms Gillard is herself a product of this polls-centric polity.
"Adopting a new platform is like an insurance policy and success isn't guaranteed, " said one executive at a handset maker.
Every Fed policy maker, including regional bank presidents, gets a voice at the table during FOMC meetings.
Winston Churchill, Britain's leader during Word War II, looking back to his days as an imperial policy-maker, used to say he created Jordan with a stroke of the pen one Sunday afternoon.
"Anyone who takes a leadership position is open to criticism, " he said, regarding his unusual move from policy maker to executive.
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