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White House has issued formal threat to Bolton to keep him from publishing book
CNN ^ | 29/1/20 | Jake Tapper

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 In a letter to Bolton's lawyer, a top official at the National Security Council wrote the unpublished manuscript of Bolton's book "appears to contain significant amounts of classified information" and couldn't be published as written.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"The manuscript may not be published or otherwise disclosed without the deletion of this classified information," the letter read.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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: bolton; book; buhbye; fakenews; hasbeen; spy; threat; traitor; whitehouse
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To: Eleutheria5
"The manuscript may not be published or otherwise disclosed without the deletion of this classified information," the letter read.

Does "otherwise disclosed" include the proposed Senate subpoena?

21 posted on 01/29/2020 12:06:11 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Fedora
Does "otherwise disclosed" include the proposed Senate subpoena?

Presumably yes, since all 100 of the egomaniacs don't sit on the Intel Committee. At the very least this will head to the courts.


22 posted on 01/29/2020 12:08:28 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: DoodleDawg

Arrest him


23 posted on 01/29/2020 12:09:48 PM PST by DownInFlames (Galsd)
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To: DoodleDawg

“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.


24 posted on 01/29/2020 12:09:58 PM PST by billyboy15
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To: Eleutheria5
The manuscript may not be published or otherwise disclosed without the deletion of this classified information," the letter read.

So they leaked it instead.

25 posted on 01/29/2020 12:10:04 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: proust

Nancy and Schumer getting a cut of the book deal?


26 posted on 01/29/2020 12:11:14 PM PST by RatRipper
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Bolton is such a disappointment!!!

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!

27 posted on 01/29/2020 12:12:31 PM PST by KavMan
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To: KavMan

WELL Trump gets the last laugh book can’t be released!!!


28 posted on 01/29/2020 12:13:41 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: KavMan
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!

"Can you get me off the hook, for old times sake?"

29 posted on 01/29/2020 12:13:51 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Eleutheria5

If this is true (Bolton book containing classified material) then he should immediately be arrested for dissemination of same. Send him to Gitmo!


30 posted on 01/29/2020 12:15:29 PM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: Eleutheria5
sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.


This wouldn't be a big story, even if true.
31 posted on 01/29/2020 12:16:39 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Please, oh pretty please let Crazy Uncle Joe Biden be the nominee.)
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To: DoodleDawg

I want to be around when he gets the swift kick he so richly deserves.

Fry his butt.


32 posted on 01/29/2020 12:23:43 PM PST by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: DoodleDawg
So what can they do to Bolton if he goes ahead and publishes?

Not a damn thing.

33 posted on 01/29/2020 12:23:48 PM PST by M. Thatcher
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To: Eleutheria5

34 posted on 01/29/2020 12:31:52 PM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Eleutheria5

Hmmm... were Bolton’s editors and publishers cleared for Top Secret Information? If not, didn’t Bolton commit a crime? Where is Barr?


35 posted on 01/29/2020 12:32:00 PM PST by BushCountry (thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg"r)
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To: billyboy15; DoodleDawg
“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.

There's a manuscript. if he submitted it to his publisher, then he's released TS information.

36 posted on 01/29/2020 12:33:06 PM PST by Spirochete (GOP: Gutless Old Party)
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To: Eleutheria5

So where’s the formal threat, CNN?


37 posted on 01/29/2020 12:35:28 PM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: M. Thatcher

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.


38 posted on 01/29/2020 12:40:55 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Poor old Bolton. I isn’t easy being a disgruntled, washed up, shaggy old traitor.


39 posted on 01/29/2020 12:45:43 PM PST by miserare ( Trump, forever and ever. Amen.)
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To: Eleutheria5

How queer, when Obama was spying on journalist computers and locking up filmmakers nobody on the Left said nothin’


40 posted on 01/29/2020 12:45:50 PM PST by a fool in paradise (We need a tax to stamp out Communism- If you espouse Marxism weÂ’ll redistribute all of your money.)
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