Posted on 08/26/2025 1:47:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I went to prison for defending the Constitutional separation of powers.
John Bolton (an occasional contributor to The Hill) may well wind up in prison, too if investigators uncover evidence and prosecutors decide to bring charges over his alleged classified disclosures.
When Bolton wrote his book, “The Room Where It Happened” — reportedly receiving a $2 million advance — he wasn’t just dishing gossip. He was sharing information about Oval Office conversations and national security that should have stayed secret — either by law or under executive privilege.
A federal judge already spelled this out in black and white. In June 2020, Judge Royce Lamberth warned that Bolton had “likely jeopardized national security by disclosing classified information in violation of his nondisclosure agreement obligations.” The judge only allowed the book to hit shelves because “the horse is already out of the barn,” given the publication of excerpts and the shipment of 200,000 copies of the book.
Lamberth went further in his ruling, stressing that Bolton had “gambled with the national security of the United States” and that the government was “likely to succeed on the merits” of proving he unlawfully disclosed classified material. Translation: Bolton didn’t just break trust — he may have also broken the law.
I served with Bolton, and he was far too frequently a loose cannon, bent on bombings and coups— Doctor Strangelove with a mustache. He agitated for airstrikes, pushed regime-change fantasies, and obsessed over military solutions when diplomacy was working. Then, instead of honoring executive privilege and confidential debate, Bolton acknowledged that in writing his memoir he relied on the “copious notes” he had conspicuously taken inside the White House.
That isn’t service. That isn’t patriotism. That’s profiteering off of America’s secrets.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Put Bolton behind bars wearing an orange jumpsuit. That’ll suit him real good.
Just one more “neoconservative” @sshole who had far too many reflexive defenders here on FR over the years.
I thought they said the Bolton raid wasn’t about classified documents and that we were going to be really surprised about what it was about. I was thinking kiddy porn.
That would be funny.
Especially if it led to pizza-gate and the Clinton Foundation.
Well, I thought Bolton really had some useful insights, contributions to make. Unfortunately, it appears that he has to go on my DisappointedWith list. Along with a lot of other politicians and public officials.
Our Founders worked assiduously to provide us with a federal government of very LIMITED enumerated powers, expressly reserving all other authority to the sovereign States and to the People.
Benjamnin Franklin famously replied when asked by Elizabeth (Eliza) Willing Powel (”socialite” and friend of George Washington) what sort of federal government our Founders had set up for us, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”
Well, we didn’t.
Trump has a well know dislike for men with mustaches. But he made an exception for John Bolton when he hired him.
You bet, and we have is exactly what the Founders warned us about. An enormous, bloated, all controlling, all taxing corrupt government.
Bingo!
I read that the penalty for issuing the book without approval, per the agreement he signed, calls for him surrendering 100% of the book proceeds and royalties to the government.
Our Founders worked assiduously to provide us with a federal government of very LIMITED enumerated powers, expressly reserving all other authority to the sovereign States and to the People
You bet, and we have is exactly what the Founders warned us about. An enormous, bloated, all controlling, all taxing corrupt government.
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The Constitution was written for an agrarian nation with fewer than 4 million people, before the Industrial Revolution kicked off. Even Jefferson recognized it was inadequate for preserving freedom in an exponentially growing country.
UGH! I used this guy. I interviewed him in a long ago radio show. Then Trump came and truly helped open my eyes to how evil the DEEP STATE is.
Don’t worry Bob, they took care of all that. It’s now one of the biggest, most bloated, wasteful and criminally corrupt employers on the planet.
some useful insights
Any president needs a variety of opinions, not only to craft the right choice, but to craft how to bypass the spin of the media. Maybe Bolton played that role.
But taking outside the White House things said in confidence in the White House is in a different category.
...after living lives of luxury off their corruption...their payoff for selling this country out to the highest bidders(mostly China, cartels, others).
May they all rot in hell.
I do too. I find myself reflexively wanting to punch people with just a mustache. I can’t explain it, it just looks so stupid to me that the thought of knocking them out crosses my mind. Some are really nice people too, but the thought keeps popping on my head. Strange on my part.
agreed
And they're coming to take him away, ha-ha
They're coming to take him away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-ha
To the graybar hotel
Where life just sucks all the time
And he'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean blue jeans
And they're coming to take him away, ha-ha
(Napoleon XIV – They're Coming to Take Me Away)
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