From: NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump
Subject: Re: Background on the Michael-John Bolton affair
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 07:14:06 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:06:25 -0400, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>On 2025-08-27 07:27, NoBody wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:18:22 -0400, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2025-08-26 07:32, NoBody wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 25 Aug 2025 05:28:25 -0700, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2025-08-25 04:30, NoBody wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 09:18:03 -0700, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 2025-08-24 07:24, NoBody wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 11:33:45 -0700, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 2025-08-23 11:26, NoBody wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Interesting reading.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> " At the center of the Justice Departments reopened probe of John
>>>>>>>>>> Bolton is whether President Donald Trumps former national security
>>>>>>>>>> adviser, and more recently staunch critic, broke the law when he
>>>>>>>>>> shared what Trump administration officials believe was classified
>>>>>>>>>> information with people not authorized to have it.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> A 2020 criminal investigation into Bolton originated from
>>>>>>>>>> allegations that Bolton had shared portions of his book draft with
>>>>>>>>>> people not authorized to handle sensitive information before he
>>>>>>>>>> obtained final approval from the government that is required ahead
>>>>>>>>>> of publishing any book, according to a person briefed on the probe.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The FBI obtained emails that appeared to show Bolton was working on
>>>>>>>>>> his book manuscript while still at the White House, and that he was
>>>>>>>>>> sharing early portions with his representatives who were helping to
>>>>>>>>>> get it published, according to the person.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The early manuscript portions included material that was restricted
>>>>>>>>>> by federal law governing classified documents, the person said.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> CNN has reached out to Bolton and his attorney for comment on the
>>>>>>>>>> FBI emails. "
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/23/politics/john-bolton-2020-
>>>>>>>>>> investigation
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> And 4 year long investigation found...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ...what?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The Biden administration shut it down as it wasn't in their interest.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Duh.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Of course!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The deep state!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> LOL!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> CNN is the deepstate? That fact is contained later in the article I
>>>>>> cited
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dang dude...
>>>>>
>>>>> CNN reporting on it being shut down doesn't make them the ones who shut
>>>>> it, does it?
>>>>
>>>> Looks like you've lost your marbles for sure. No one said anything
>>>> about the deep state but you.
>>>
>>> And you're the one who said the "Biden administration shut it down" as
>>> if that wasn't because there was nothing to be found.
>>
>> In your dreams.
>>
>>
>> "After President Joe Biden took office in 2021, the Bolton probe was
>> shut down that June for political reasons, a senior US official told
>> The Post Friday."
>> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-john-bolton-s-controversial-2020-memoir-sparked-first-federal-probe-of-ex-trump-national-security-adviser/ar-AA1L2xOW
>
>An anonymous "senior US official" told the NY Post?
>
>Could you choose a more biased source?
Are you now denying that the probe was not dropped by the Biden
administration???
>
>And reporting this in 2025 and you don't think that that's at the behest
>of Trump?
Laughter!
Because the media is so friendly to Trump...
>
>Read what's in the very next paragraph, doofus:
>
>'A Justice Department effort to recoup profits from the book was also
>set aside after attorneys for Knight submitted a letter to the federal
>judge overseeing that case, claiming she had been pressured by the Trump
>White House to falsely declare The Room Where It Happened contained
>classified information.'
So?
>
>That's someone speaking without the cloak of anonymity.
>
>More:
>
>'In an 18-page letter submitted in the case on Tuesday, Knight claimed
>that after she and her team went through several rounds of reviewing the
>manuscript with the help of Bolton's attorneys, they were able to remove
>all of the classified information. But soon thereafter political
>appointees in the executive branch took "extraordinary actions" to
>pressure her into reversing that assessment.
So classified information was made available to the publishers???
That itself is a crime.
Game over.