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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 In a letter to Bolton's lawyer, a top official at the National Security Council wrote the unpublished manuscript of Bolton's book "appears to contain significant amounts of classified information" and couldn't be published as written.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"The manuscript may not be published or otherwise disclosed without the deletion of this classified information," the letter read.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: 2harddrive

Especially when it’s pure bulls####.


81 posted on 01/31/2020 4:55:19 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: Eleutheria5

There is no threat,.

There ordinary run of the mill national security enforcement.


82 posted on 01/31/2020 4:57:24 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: bert

They keep telling me, “don’t change the headline. It confuses people.” I should have at least marked it for barfing just based on the fake headline.


83 posted on 01/31/2020 4:58:56 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: jimjohn
No, it had to be sent to the WH for clearance. Simon-Shuster would insist since he signed an NDA.

Of course. We all know that.

NOW.... if HE knew that(we know he did), why would he send the manuscript to the WH full of classified and top secret info ?

84 posted on 02/01/2020 7:02:22 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Its NOT a threat..the book has classified info in it, it cannot be released

The question then poses itself... why would Bolton submit such a manuscript, fully knowing the WH would be forced to prohibit the manuscript from going to the publisher ?

Going further, why would the publisher give him an advance on a book they can never publish ? (given my assumption that the advance bribe has already been paid)

85 posted on 02/01/2020 7:09:09 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: euram

NATO budgets have been a honey pot for decades.


86 posted on 02/01/2020 7:28:51 AM PST by Clarence The One Eyed Lion
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To: Eleutheria5; Chode; Squantos; SkyDancer; Delta 21; tubebender; Lockbox; OldMissileer; ...

They should be wearing a Hangman’s Noose and standing on a new Gallows built in front of The Reflecting Pool in DC with a live TV Broadcast of the entire event.


87 posted on 02/08/2020 11:34:51 PM PST by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: Eleutheria5

The fact that the classified information has now been seen by uncleared persons because Bolton put it out there means Bolton should be prosecuted for disclosing classified information to unauthorized persons in unauthorized means.


88 posted on 02/09/2020 1:36:12 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: mabarker1

It might be entertaining to have them be gladiators, but they’d probably just sissy slap. Maybe lions. I could see the gleeful spectators after Hillary’s gone: “Boy, I’m glad ‘e ate her”. “Yeh. At this point, what difference does it make.” “Why, that’s just deplorable.” “I know, I know, dear. I’m irredeemable.”


89 posted on 02/09/2020 2:26:05 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: UCANSEE2

100%


90 posted on 02/09/2020 7:51:14 AM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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