https://thehill.com/regulation/cour...moving-forward-with-book-despite-warning-from An attorney for former White House national security adviser John Bolton said the publication of Bolton’s memoir will proceed as scheduled despite warnings from the White House that it contains classified information. A White House lawyer on Wednesday said the manuscript for Bolton’s book, “The Room Where It Happened,” needs further revisions, saying in a letter that it will send Bolton a manuscript redacted to the White House’s satisfaction by June 19, The Washington Post reported. The book is set to hit shelves June 23, and Bolton is currently negotiating promotional appearances in the media. Charles Cooper, Bolton’s lawyer, said his client has followed all national security requirements and that the book, which has already been shipped to warehouses, will be released as scheduled. “Simon & Schuster is fully supportive of Ambassador Bolton’s First Amendment right to tell the story of his time in the Trump White House,” said Julia Prosser, vice president and director of publicity for the book’s publisher, said in a statement. “In the months leading up to the publication of ‘The Room Where It Happened,’ Bolton worked in cooperation with the National Security Council to incorporate changes to the text that addressed NSC concerns,” she added. “The final, published version of this book reflects those changes.” Cooper told the Post he received the letter calling for further revisions from White House deputy counsel John Eisenberg. In the letter, first reported by The New York Times, Eisenberg invoked the nondisclosure agreement Bolton signed when he went to work for the Trump administration, adding “the unauthorized disclosure of classified information could be exploited by a foreign power, thereby causing significant harm to the national security of the United States.” Cooper told the Post he sent a “lengthy response” and that the publication date would not be altered.
Bolton is a treasonous rat that would have 100K US men and women fighting in the ME if he had gotten his way. Good riddance.
It's just a book......why so scatred of him publishing it. If it has lies then it should be easy to refute but he was in on a lot of meetings so I assume he has some insight. He is a fucktard but no need to sue to stop the book like a bee ach.
You're not saying he's treasonous because of his desire to have troops fighting abroad, are you? That would implicate most of American history's leaders!
Justice Department Seeks To Block Publication Of John Bolton's White House Memoir https://www.npr.org/2020/06/16/8789...ublication-of-john-boltons-white-house-memoir Seven days before the scheduled June 23 release of a tell-all account of John Bolton's tenure as President Trump's national security adviser, the Justice Department late Tuesday mounted a last-ditch effort to block its publication. A 27-page civil lawsuit filed by the Justice Department against Bolton with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleges that publication of his 592-page book, The Room Where It Happened, would be a violation of nondisclosure agreements he signed and compromise national security. "[The National Security Council] has determined that the manuscript in its present form contains certain passages — some up to several paragraphs in length — that contain classified national security information," the filing states. "In fact, the NSC has determined that information in the manuscript is classified at the Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret levels." "Accordingly," it continues, "the publication and release of The Room Where it Happened would cause irreparable harm, because the disclosure of instances of classified information in the manuscript reasonably could be expected to cause serious damage, or exceptionally grave damage, to the national security of the United States." The lawsuit argues that Bolton, who lasted 16 months as Trump's third national security adviser before being fired in September 2019, had signed a document three days after leaving his White House post acknowledging "that he continued to be 'prohibited from disclosing any classified or confidential information,' and that he 'may not use or disclose nonpublic information' — defined as 'information gained by reason of [his] federal employment' and that 'has not been made available to the general public.' " Bolton is accused in the lawsuit with three counts of breach of contract and fiduciary duty — for allegedly violating prepublication review requirements, for violating his duty not to disseminate classified information, and for unjust enrichment from what the Justice Department says is a book deal "allegedly worth about $2 million." The court is asked to order Bolton to request that the book's publisher, Simon & Schuster, further delay a publication date that originally was to have been in April so that the NSC can complete its prepublication review. No time frame is given for how soon that review might be finished. According to a director with Bolton's Foundation for American Security and Freedom super PAC, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday evening had no comment to make about the lawsuit. In an email, his attorney, Charles Cooper, said, "We are reviewing the Government's complaint, and will respond in due course." It appears, though, that Bolton's book has already been printed and is being distributed. "In the months leading up to the publication of The Room Where It Happened, Bolton worked in cooperation with the National Security Council to incorporate changes to the text that addressed NSC concerns," Simon & Schuster said in a June 10 press release. "The final, published version of this book reflects those changes, and Simon & Schuster is fully supportive of Ambassador Bolton's First Amendment right to tell the story of his time in the Trump White House." A description by the publisher of what the mustachioed, hard-driving former top aide to Trump has written leaves little doubt why the president, with Attorney General Bill Barr at his side, said on Tuesday of Bolton "maybe he's not telling the truth. He's been known not to tell the truth a lot." In that prepublication blurb, Simon & Schuster quotes a damning indictment of Trump directly from Bolton's book. "'I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn't driven by reelection calculations,' he writes," according to the publisher. "In fact," Simon & Schuster says of Bolton, "he argues that the House committed impeachment malpractice by keeping their prosecution focused narrowly on Ukraine when Trump's Ukraine-like transgressions existed across the full range of his foreign policy — and Bolton documents exactly what those were, and attempts by him and others in the Administration to raise alarms about them." The book, the imprint adds, "shows a President addicted to chaos, who embraced our enemies and spurned our friends, and was deeply suspicious of his own government." Bolton's book sales, should the eleventh-hour effort to block them fail, could handsomely benefit from the considerable publicity generated by his spat with Trump. Should that happen, the lawsuit contends, the earnings would not go to Bolton. It claims that under the nondisclosure agreements he signed, Bolton agreed to "assign to the United States Government all rights, title, and interest, and all royalties, remunerations and emoluments that have resulted or will result or may result from any disclosure, publication or revelation not consistent with the terms" of those agreements.
'This is disturbing': Former White House ethics chief raises questions about Ivanka Trump's emails https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...gations-walter-shaub-disturbing-a9573716.html The former head of the US Office of Government Ethics has raised questions about controversial emails Ivanka Trump sent before joining her father’s White House administration, after they resurfaced due to John Bolton's upcoming book. Walter Shaub, who served as the chief ethics czar under former President Barack Obama, described the previously reported emails as “disturbing” after they were posted to Twitter by a government watchdog group, which received them after filing a Freedom of Information Act request in 2017. Ms Trump, who now serves as a senior White House adviser in President Donald Trump’s administration, was found to have conducted government business over a private server using personal email account “on hundreds of occasions”, according to the watchdog group, American Oversight. The emails revealed that the first daughter — who had no prior government or political experience prior to serving in her father’s White House — was emailing top cabinet officials like Education Secretary Betsy DeVos prior to officially joining the administration. Mr Shaub pointed to one email he found “even MORE disturbing” than others, which showed Ms Trump referring to a White House official as her “COS”, or chief of staff. The former ethics chief wrote in a tweet: “Wow! This is really crazy stuff.” Mr Trump made Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state a key part of his criticism against her in the last presidential election. While it was previously reported that Ms Trump and several others in the White House — including her husband, Jared Kushner — used personal emails to conduct government business in the initial months of the new administration, those revelations have since resurfaced amid explosive reports surrounding the new book by Mr Bolton, the former national security adviser. The upcoming book, titled The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, claims Mr Trump devised a major distraction to avoid press reports about his daughter’s use of a private email server and personal account after the emails were initially discovered by American Oversight. He then defended Saudi Arabia and supported Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the government faced mounting criticism over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the book alleges. Mr Trump has shot down his ex-National Security Adviser as a “liar” after reports of the book emerged, saying in an interview with The Journal: “Everybody in the White House hated John Bolton.” The Trump administration has also filed a lawsuit against Mr Bolton over the book, claiming it contained “classified information” — even though the president has frequently alleged the revelations in the book were false. In an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Mr Trump said he “used a washed-up guy” while referring to his appointment of Mr Bolton to the critical national security role, adding: “I gave him a chance.”