From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Background on the Michael-John Bolton affair
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 16:01:04 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-09-05 15:32, AlleyCat wrote:
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> On Fri, 5 Sep 2025 13:35:30 -0700, Alan says...
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>> Bolton was writing a memoir, and he needed advice about what would be
>> considered classified and what would not:
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> He didn't NEED to put it in a manuscript to find out if it would be published or not.
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> To an "expert: "Hey, I'm considering putting this in a book. Can I?"
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>> Because how can you know without the advise of the experts?
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> "Hey, I'm considering putting this in a book. Can I?"
That's how the process works, yes.
The correct office in the federal government unwinds things that were
once classified from those that still are.
Among other things.
Now deal with all the rest that you snipped.
The administration that was clearly acting politically was Trump's in
trying to suppress Bolton's book:
'Over the course of five days and a total of 18 hours of meetings, a
rotating cast of Justice Department and White House attorneys tried to
persuade Ms. Knight to sign a declaration they wanted to file with their
lawsuit against Ambassador Bolton.'
'Ms. Knight asked the attorneys how it could be appropriate that a
designedly apolitical process had been commandeered by political
appointees for a seemingly political purpose. She asked them to explain
why they were so insistent on pursuing litigation rather than resolving
the potential national security issues through engagement with
Ambassador Bolton and her team.'