White House told Bolton to scrub classified info from book before publishing
The White House National Security Council told former National Security Adviser John R. Bolton that he couldn’t publish his book manuscript, now sought by Democrats to bolster their case in President Trump’s impeachment trial, unless he deleted top-secret material.
NSC senior director for records Ellen Knight told Mr. Bolton’s lawyer, Charles Cooper, in a letter obtained by The Washington Times that the book manuscript “appears to contain significant amounts of classified information.”
“It also appears that some of this classified information is at the TOP SECRET level,” she wrote on Jan. 23.
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[Revealing classified information to unauthorized people is a federal crime under the Espionage Act of 1917. Former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for leaking classified information to a New York Times reporter. --Editor]
NSC senior director for records Ellen Knight told Mr. Bolton’s lawyer, Charles Cooper, in a letter obtained by The Washington Times that the book manuscript “appears to contain significant amounts of classified information.”
“It also appears that some of this classified information is at the TOP SECRET level,” she wrote on Jan. 23.
More
[Revealing classified information to unauthorized people is a federal crime under the Espionage Act of 1917. Former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for leaking classified information to a New York Times reporter. --Editor]
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