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: Sun, 31 Aug 2025 09:59:33 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 12:46:46 -0400, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>On 2025-08-28 07:14, NoBody 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???
Silence (of course).
>>
>>>
>>> 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?
Silence (of course).
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>
>I'm sorry, but where does it say that any classified information got as
>far as the publishers.
Isn't that what the investigation is about???
>
>What it DOES say is that Knight and her team reviewed the manuscript
>BEFORE it was sent to the publishers.
The investigation will tell us.