The Justice Department is suing to stop the new book by disgruntled former Trump appointee who was ceremoniously dumped. When he went to work for Trump he signed a confidentiality agreement and the book is not allowed under the agreement. now hem wants to ignore that agreement.But the reason Justice is suing is also because he included confidential information in the book.
“In the Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir,” was scheduled to be released on June 23.
The prosecutors charged:
“(Bolton) struck a bargain with the United States as a condition of his employment in one of the most sensitive and important national security positions in the United States Government and now wants to renege on that bargain by unilaterally deciding that the prepublication review process is complete and deciding for himself whether classified information should be made public.”
He also reneged on the condition of employment that he qave to allow the book to be vetted by the FBI and DOJ before releasing the book.
In anticipation of the lawsuit, Bolton tweeted a statement from the American Civil Liberties Union condemning any attempt to shut down his book.
“50 years ago, [the Supreme Court] rejected the Nixon administration’s attempt to block the publication of the Pentagon Papers, establishing that government censorship is unconstitutional,” read the ACLU statement.
“Any Trump administration efforts to stop John Bolton’s book from being published are doomed to fail,” the statement added.
Bolton has taken a decidedly aggressive stance against the Trump administration after leaving it, and in the back cover of the book, he sent a message to the president over his attempts to stop the book from being published.
“My reaction,” Bolton wrote, “my response? Game on.”
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