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: Sat, 30 Aug 2025 09:34:39 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 07:14:06 -0400, NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>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.
And Alan runs away.