>>Which is why I actually like the author of the article. Knowing that the editor will slap an imprecise qualification in the subcaption ("John Bolton, the former American ambassador to the United Nations" - which is not exactly true), he strategically inserted a preemptive correction somewhere deep inside the text: "Mr Bush's ambassador to the UN".
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>John Bolton was not the U.S. ambassador to the UN? You must mean something different than I think.

He wasn't vetted by Congress, he was actually filibustered against. He was Bush's finger-in-everyone's-eye own envoy, by means of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recess_appointment.