Just another day in Bizarroworld.

John Bolton, the notoriously Type-A ideologue Bush nominated to be UN ambassador, apparently lied to the senate during his confirmation hearings. But if he'd come clean, it would've provided further evidence of his incompetence.

WASHINGTON - John Bolton, President Bush's nominee for U.N. ambassador, neglected to tell Congress he had been interviewed in a government investigation into faulty prewar intelligence that Iraq was seeking nuclear materials in Africa, the State Department said.

Democratic senators said the admission should forestall Bush from using his authority to give Bolton a temporary appointment to the U.N. post, without Senate confirmation, when the Senate goes on vacation in August.

Bolton was interviewed by the State Department inspector general in 2003 as part of a joint investigation with the CIA into prewar Iraqi attempts to buy nuclear materials from Niger, State Department spokesman Noel Clay said Thursday.

His statement came hours after another State Department official said Bolton had correctly answered a Senate questionnaire when he wrote that he had not testified to a grand jury or been interviewed by investigators in any inquiry over the past five years.

For that, Bush is now expected to take his usual course of action when a close associate turns out to be a perjuring numbskull-- promotion!