Posted on 01/29/2020 11:46:19 AM PST by Eleutheria5
Washington (CNN)The White House has issued a formal threat to former national security adviser John Bolton to keep him from publishing his book, "The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir," sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. In a letter to Bolton's lawyer, a top official at the National Security Council wrote the unpublished manuscript of Bolton's book "appears to contain significant amounts of classified information" and couldn't be published as written. The letter, which is dated January 23, said some of the information was classified at the "top secret" level, meaning it "reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave harm to the national security."
"The manuscript may not be published or otherwise disclosed without the deletion of this classified information," the letter read.
The White House had no comment. Neither Bolton nor a spokesman for the publisher, Simon & Schuster, responded to a request for comment.
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Does "otherwise disclosed" include the proposed Senate subpoena?
Arrest him
“So what can they do to Bolton if he goes ahead and publishes?”
If he released Top Secret information he could be jailed. The publisher could publish the book since receiving TS information is not illegal.
So they leaked it instead.
Nancy and Schumer getting a cut of the book deal?
I saw Hannity yesterday talking about how Bolton was asking Hannity to put in a good word to TRUMP about hiring him & look what he turned out!
Causing TRUMP problems & cashing in on a book deal!
WELL Trump gets the last laugh book can’t be released!!!
"Can you get me off the hook, for old times sake?"
If this is true (Bolton book containing classified material) then he should immediately be arrested for dissemination of same. Send him to Gitmo!
I want to be around when he gets the swift kick he so richly deserves.
Fry his butt.
Not a damn thing.
Hmmm... were Bolton’s editors and publishers cleared for Top Secret Information? If not, didn’t Bolton commit a crime? Where is Barr?
If he released Top Secret information he could be jailed. The publisher could publish the book since receiving TS information is not illegal.
There's a manuscript. if he submitted it to his publisher, then he's released TS information.
So where’s the formal threat, CNN?
He doesn’t want the book published. He submitted it to the WH so they could reject it. The DEMS will say the WH rejected it to hide evidence incriminating President Trump.
The book isn’t published, and no one is the wiser as to whether there really was anything incriminating in the book.
Bolton can’t be caught lying, because the book won’t be published and the DEMS will still believe it was in the book.
That is the DEM TRICKERY AFOOT.
Poor old Bolton. I isn’t easy being a disgruntled, washed up, shaggy old traitor.
How queer, when Obama was spying on journalist computers and locking up filmmakers nobody on the Left said nothin’
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