Federal prosecutors are mulling criminal charges against John Bolton

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Federal prosecutors are weighing whether to criminally charge John Bolton with disclosing classified information in his upcoming White House memoir, and the Justice Department is expected in coming days to ramp up its legal campaign to block publication of a book that is being billed as a scathing rebuke of President Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Justice Department is expected to seek a temporary restraining order from a federal judge as soon as Wednesday that would block Bolton and his publisher, Simon & Schuster, from releasing the memoir as planned on June 23, the people said. It is not clear how successful such a legal fight would be. On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal published a lengthy excerpt of the book. It is also in the hands of journalists who have begun to chronicle its findings in stories.

Nevertheless, such a legal maneuver would amp up the fight begun Tuesday when the Justice Department filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to order Bolton to halt the release of "The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir," pending the conclusion of a prepublication scrub of the manuscript for classified information.

The suit alleges that Bolton is in breach of nondisclosure agreements that required such a review and clearance by the National Security Council before he can publish a book.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/federal-prosecutors-are-mulling-criminal-charges-against-john-bolton/ar-BB15CY94?li=BBnb7Kz

[katmondoo]

1. A little late isn't it?

[Nevilledog]

2. How do they get around this?

They say it's lies. Lies aren't classified.
They say it's classified. They aren't lies.

Book is already out there, ain't going away.

So which argument are they gonna hang there hat on?


Only logical way to handle this is to say it's all lies and dismiss it.

[NCjack]

3. lock'im up!