If the Bolton intercepts requested by Senate Dems include Plame/Wilson, that would of course, explain the WH's absolute refusal to provide them.  However, according to CNN, at least, ALL requested info was provided to both Cmte. Chair Pat Roberts (another Roberts?) and Jay Rockefeller, the ranking member.  See, e.g., here: http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/16/senate.bolton/.  Had Plame/Wilson appeared on the list, Rockefeller presumably would have made some noise about it.  Instead, he's been quoted as saying, in effect, that there's no "there" there.  On the other hand, he may have missed the connection, or had some other reason not to raise a red flag, which raises the better question: why it's ok to provide the information to one Democratic Senator, but not all.  See here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8017664/site/newsweek/
And here: http://rockefeller.senate.gov/news/2005/pr061405a.html

In addition, it appears that being "out of town" and therefore not involved, is part of Bolton's signature m.o.  See here.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7577473/site/newsweek/
This Isikoff & Hosenball piece also reminds us that in his 10requests for NSA intercepts, Bolton asked specifically for the names of "U.S. officials," and that "Bolton has engaged in a pattern of bullying and attempting to victimize subordinates—particularly career intelligence officials—who have produced analyses that conflict or contradict Bolton's own hard-line conservative views on world events," which is, of course, exactly what happened to Plame.

Posted at July 23, 2005 8:48 AM in response to Problem for Bolton?