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On 2025-09-04 21:18, AlleyCat wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 21:47:16 -0700,  Alan says...
> 
>>> OK... so you admit he was TRYING to get classified information
>>> published.
> 
>> No.
> 
> Uh... yes. You KNOW he was, but you have to argue to save face...
> for the 1,000th time. Can't bullshit semantics your way out of this
> one. It's a matter of record, faggot.

No, Loser.

As usual, you have "no idea".

Bolton was writing a memoir, and he needed advice about what would be 
considered classified and what would not:

'A prepublication review, by contrast, involves reviewing the written 
work of a private U. S. citizen.  Its purpose is two-fold -- to ensure 
the protection of government information whose disclosure would damage 
national security while at the same time supporting that citizen’s right 
to publish all First Amendment-protected information. It is therefore 
designed not to limit the transmission of information, but rather to 
facilitate the private citizen’s ability to transmit his thoughts in a 
way that does not disclose government secrets. It is the expectation of 
an official conducting a prepublication review that the result will be 
the public release of a document free of any information that could 
damage national security.'

This next paragraph is the key one:

'The prepublication review process is, therefore, much more complex and 
time-consuming than a classification review. It entails reading the 
draft text to identify information that may be sensitive and then 
carefully researching the press and public record for any government
releases, statements, reports, testimony or presidential tweets that may 
have officially disclosed that information, thereby meaning that it is 
no longer sensitive or classified in the context of prepublication 
review. It often happens that a prepublication reviewer flags what was 
at one time highly-protected sensitive information, only to learn that 
that information has been otherwise released through official channels 
and is now a matter of public knowledge. Once that research is completed 
and any remaining sensitive information is identified, the reviewer then 
works closely with the author to remove, sanitize, or otherwise obscure 
enough details or specifics that the author can discuss that information 
in a way that will not damage national security.'

Did you get it...

...or do I have to spell it out for you?



> 
> The BIDEN administration was investigating this and decided to drop
> it for political reasons, since they were investigating FOR 
> political reasons.

That's a claim without any evidence to back it up.

> 
> The Biden administration dropped the civil lawsuit and a separate
> grand jury investigation into John Bolton over his book, "The Room
> Where It Happened," in June 2021. The investigation, which was
> started by the prior administration's Department of Justice, was
> initially based on allegations that Bolton's book contained
> classified information.

And the person charged with clearing it for publication told them it did 
not:

'Ms. Knight and the First Reviewer came to the end of their review 
process on April 27 when they received Ambassador Bolton’s response to 
their last set of necessary changes, most of which at this point in the 
revision simply entailed providing citations. At that point, Ms. Knight 
determined that all classification concerns had been addressed and that 
publication of the manuscript, as heavily revised, would disclose no 
information that would cause harm to our national security – which 
conclusion was confirmed by the final read-through of the manuscript by 
the Acting Director for Access Management.'

Did you get THAT?

> 
> According to statements from Bolton's lawyers and former Justice
> Department officials, the Biden administration's decision WAS SEEN 
> AS A TACIT ACKNOWLEDGMENT that the PREVIOUS EFFORTS TO BLOCK THE
> BOOK'S PUBLICATION WERE POLITICALLY MOTIVATED. Bolton's legal team 
> argued that the original lawsuit and criminal inquiry were
> illegitimate attempts to suppress a book CRITICAL OF THE PREVIOUS 
> ADMINISTRATION'S (Biden's) foreign policy. The Biden
> administration's Justice Department did not provide a public reason
> for dropping the case, but THE MOVE WAS INTERPRETED BY MANY AS AN
> ATTEMPT TO DISTANCE ITSELF FROM WHAT WAS VIEWED AS POLITICAL 
> RETRIBUTION.

And Knight's letter bears out Bolton's claims:

'Ms. Knight contacted NSC Legal on April 28, 2020 to convey her findings 
and coordinate the finalizing of the prepublication review process, 
which, as discussed above, was an unusual step for NSC prepublication 
reviews, which normally do not involve other NSC officials in the 
approval process. Given their level of interest in this particular 
review, Ms. Knight felt it necessary to advise NSC Legal that she was 
prepared to clear the manuscript.'

> 
> More bullshit DEMOCRAT lawfare.
> 
>> I admit that what is classified is complex...
> 
> Classified is classified.

See above regarding things that WERE classified, but had subsequently 
been released.

> 
> I didn't see you defending Trump and the "levels" of classification
> of the documents HE had, faggocrite.
> 
>> ...and that he followed the correct procedure for making sure that
>> classified information wasn't published.
> 
> THAT'S not the issue, Shift Queen.
> 
> LOL... so... he was just testing the waters?
> 
> Your ego and narcissism is making you look like a fucking stupid
> idiot.
> 
>> You admit he submitted the manuscript for vetting before it went
>> to the publisher, right?
> 
> So, you admit he DID want it published with classified material.

Nope. He wanted to write a memoir and he used the standard process to 
ensure it did NOT get published with classified information.

> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Why put something in a manuscript, if you KNOW it will be "deleted"?

Because how can you know without the advise of the experts?