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 In a letter to Bolton's lawyer, a top official at the National Security Council wrote the unpublished manuscript of Bolton's book "appears to contain significant amounts of classified information" and couldn't be published as written.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"The manuscript may not be published or otherwise disclosed without the deletion of this classified information," the letter read.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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Note the author. Jake Tapper. A lying weenie if ever there was one.
“So what can they do to Bolton if he goes ahead and publishes?”
Leavenworth.
“He may yet be proven to have acted honorably,”
Some years back, Bolton was a good guy here on FR. I’m still not sure how he morphed into an Ian Fleming villain.
Delay the publication until it is old news — Bolton won’t make a penny on it.
“weenie”?
you’re WAY too kind ...
Crazy times make people look for shortcuts, shiboleths and snap judgments.
Don’t I know it. I’m still looking through dictionaries for anything apt for this POS. It’s all too kind.
Neither should he. He does cheapen himself by writing a tell-all.
Talk about a lying headline. The security people sent his man a statement of fact. No threat included.
Well,at least he’ll have a nice comfy gig at MSLSD waiting for him.
IOWs the typical made up #FakeNews from CNN.
“a formal threat” is more biased pretend journalism. Certainly there’s a real legal term applicable, instead of a prejudiced one-syllable evil-sounding word.
sources familiar with the matter tell CNN
Levin shared this video of Bolton talking about president Trump’s”cordial” phone converations with Zelinshy (sp):
https://twitter.com/i/status/1222561157254385665
Gillian Turner who served in both GW Bush and Obama's administrations read the letter on-air (FOX News) today and said it was boiler-plate stuff.
She'd know. CNN can go eat a bag of dicks.
He’d say what helped him and harmed Trump... don’t ya know that’s allowed in their circles? And the GOP has not learned how to be as vicious as the enemy.
File under “Don’t Care”.
Where’s the threat? I see an advisement.
3 observations....
No formal threat. No place to comment. Relying on adult leaky diaper commercials for revenue.
SENATORS: If the Impeachment doesn’t fit....you must ACQUIT!
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