A federal judge in DC is allowing the Justice Department’s (DOJ) lawsuit against former National Security Adviser John Bolton for his new memoir to proceed.
“Because the agreements imposed both obligations and because the government plausibly pleads that Bolton breached those obligations, the Court will deny Bolton's pending motion to dismiss,” Judge Royce Lamberth said in his decision.
The judge pointed out that Bolton signed three non-disclosure agreements as a condition of his position. According to court documents, Bolton submitted his manuscript to Ellen Knight, the National Security Council’s director for records access and information security management. Knight and her staff performed a preliminary review and determined the manuscript contained “significant amounts of classified information.” Knight and Bolton worked through a series of changes.
Knight, believing the classified information to be excised, then passed the manuscript to Michael Ellis, the NSC’s senior director for intelligence programs, for a second review.Ellis had access to more “extremely sensitive intelligence reports” than Knight, and determined the manuscript still contained classified information and sent a letter to Bolton’s attorney explaining the book could not be published until the government confirmed its review was complete.
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