This was predictable. Bolton wasn’t going to take his ego and go away quietly.
He’s got the Hillary syndrome... he can’t admit no one needs to hear him. I think it’s why he got booted out anyway
Mr Bolton had a Top Secret with Special Compartmentalized Information (TS/SCI) access while he headed the NSC. He IS REQUIRED by law to submit any manuscript or article he writes that covers his period as head of NSC to it to be reviewed for the existence of any classified information that might be in it. Thus he had no choice in NOT submitting it to the NSC.
I know this because I had a similar caveat on what I might write that covered the years I was in the Army as an active duty soldier and afterward as a Dept Army civilian with TS/SCI access. I could write and publish whatever I wanted, without sending it to the Dept of Army for classification review, only if it was pre-Vietnam War history/fiction.
This is another case of needing to find the NSC Staff member who leaked the information and prosecuting that person. Until that happens or his book is published, I will consider Mr. Bolton of any allegations by the NY Slimes.