Bolton book, Ukraine aid freeze tied to Biden

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schuylaar

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PhatNuggz said:
your IMPARTIAL whistleblower has finally been outed

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and how does that make you feel? do you feel as if it were a breakthrough in your life? will you sleep better tonight knowing that someone from the GOP violated, yet again the Constitution- oh! that's right..we don't have one now..to satisfy an obese, foul-mouthed, rapist, thief President-Dictator?

i know it gives him wood- does it do the same for you?

i'm curious why it makes you so happy to put a patriot in danger, because that's what you've done by posting the link.

FTW I didn't click:finger:
 
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Trump is making Bolton millions overtime he cries about this book.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has sued former national security adviser John Bolton to delay the publication of a book that the White House says contains classified information and that is expected to paint an unfavorable portrait of the president’s foreign policy decision-making.

The civil lawsuit filed Tuesday in Washington’s federal court follows warnings from President Donald Trump that Bolton could face a “criminal problem” if he doesn’t halt plans to publish the book, which is scheduled for release next week.

The complaint is the latest salvo in a contentious relationship between Trump and the hawkish Bolton, who was abruptly forced from the White House last September after repeated disagreements on national security matters. It moves their rift into court, where a judge will be asked to decide whether Bolton short-circuited proper procedures to get his book on the market — something his lawyer and publisher have strongly denied.

His publisher, Simon & Schuster, called the lawsuit “nothing more than the latest in a long running series of efforts by the administration to quash publication of a book it deems unflattering to the president.” It said in a statement Tuesday evening that Bolton had worked with White House officials to address their concerns, and that it “fully supports his First Amendment right” to tell his story.

Chuck Cooper, Bolton’s attorney, said Wednesday his team was “reviewing the Government’s complaint and will respond in due course.”

Cooper has said Bolton worked for months with classification specialists to avoid releasing classified material. He has accused the White House of using national security information as a pretext to censor Bolton.

In its lawsuit, the Justice Department administration contends that the former adviser did not complete a pre-publication review to ensure that the manuscript did not contain classified material. It requests that a federal court order Bolton to “instruct or request” that his publisher further delay publication of the book to allow for a completion of the national security review process and to “retrieve and dispose” of existing copies in a manner acceptable to the government.

The Justice Department also is seeking to prevent Bolton from profiting off the book, particularly if he “refuses to complete the prepublication review process and obtain the required prior written authorization before proceeding with publishing the book.”

In its lawsuit, the Justice Department argues that Bolton’s job meant he “regularly came into possession of some of the most sensitive classified information that exists in the U.S. government.” Officials said Bolton’s manuscript was more than 500 pages and was “rife with classified information, which he proposed to release to the world.”

“The United States is not seeking to censor any legitimate aspect of Defendant’s manuscript; it merely seeks an order requiring Defendant to complete the prepublication review process and to take all steps necessary to ensure that only a manuscript that has been officially authorized through that process — and is thus free of classified information — is disseminated publicly,” the lawsuit says.

Bolton’s book, “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir,” was supposed to be released in March. Its release date was twice delayed and it is now set to be released next week by Simon & Schuster.

“Bolton covers an array of topics — chaos in the White House, sure, but also assessments of major players, the president’s inconsistent, scattershot decision-making process, and his dealings with allies and enemies alike, from China, Russia, Ukraine, North Korea, Iran, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany,” according to the publisher.

“I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn’t driven by reelection calculations,” Bolton writes in the book, according to a news release from the publisher.

The book has been highly anticipated for months, especially after news broke during Trump’s impeachment trial that the manuscript offered a vivid account of the president’s efforts to freeze military aid to Ukraine until the country assisted with investigations into Trump’s political rival Joe Biden. Those allegations formed the crux of the impeachment case, which ended in February with the president’s acquittal in the Senate.

Cooper did not immediately return an email seeking comment on the lawsuit Tuesday. He has previously said that he sent Bolton’s manuscript to White House classification specialist Ellen Knight in late December and that Knight and Bolton spent nearly four months going through the book multiple times, “often line by line.”

According to the lawsuit, Knight completed her review in late April and determined that the manuscript draft did not contain classified information.

But early the next month, Michael Ellis, the National Security Council’s senior director for intelligence, began an additional review of the manuscript and found classified information in it, the lawsuit says. The review was still ongoing earlier this month when media reports revealed that Bolton intended to move forward with his book.

In a statement Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union said the lawsuit is “doomed to fail.” Ben Wizner, the director of the organization’s speech, privacy and technology project, said the Supreme Court had rejected a half-century ago the Nixon administration’s efforts to block the publication of the Pentagon Papers, and said it is well-established that prior restraints on publication are unconstitutional.

“As usual, the government’s threats have nothing to do with safeguarding national security, and everything to do with avoiding scandal and embarrassment,” Wizner said.
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'paint an unfavorable portrait of the president’s foreign policy decision-making.'

that ship has already sailed and Trumpers* don't read = no spoiler alert; just the minutia of the act.
 
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hanimmal said:
Trump is making Bolton millions overtime he cries about this book.

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If ya look back on it, Bill Barr has really been all in with Trump since the Ukraine, I think he never thought he'd actually break the law, but he was easily corrupted since he was already anyway. Bullshitting on the Mueller report and other things weren't illegal per se, but as he continued to cover for Trump he quickly got sucked into criminal acts. The ukraine scandal makes Billy boy part of a very serious criminal conspiracy that alone could put him away for the rest of his miserable life. This does not include the violation of 1st amendment rights at La Fayette park or the use of unidentified federal personal to assault citizens.

Bill Barr is as desperate as Donald these days, another guy who is facing a dismal legal future, this guy will probably end up doing himself, a future suicide. Bill must be nervous these days, there are thousands of former DOJ officials and prosecutors who are eager to chop off his head, many will be in Joe's administration. Desperate people do desperate things though, he's an asshole, but he works for an even bigger asshole and moron. Image what would happen to him if he resigned or was fired, Donald would turn on him in a heartbeat and under the bus he goes!
 
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hanimmal

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DIY-HP-LED said:
If ya look back on it, Bill Barr has really been all in with Trump since the Ukraine, I think he never thought he's actually break the law, but he was easily corrupted since he was already anyway. Bullshitting on the Mueller report and other things weren't illegal per se, but as he continued to cover for Trump he quickly got sucked into criminal acts. The ukraine scandal makes Billy boy part of a very serious criminal conspiracy that alone could put him away for the rest of his miserable life. This does not include the violation of 1st amendment rights at La Fayette park or the use of unidentified federal personal to assault citizens.

Bill Barr is as desperate as Donald these days, another guy who is facing a dismal legal future, this guy will probably end up doing himself, a future suicide. Bill must be nervous these days, there are thousands of former DOJ officials and prosecutors who are eager to chop off his head, many will be in Joe's administration. Desperate people do desperate things though, he's an asshole, but he works for an even bigger asshole and moron. Image what would happen to him if he resigned or was fired, Donald would turn on him in a heartbeat and under the bus he goes!
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It comes down to the IG not being able to investigate attorneys of any level in the executive branch. Barr knows as long as he is AG he can't be investigated, think he knew he would be breaking the law a lot.

 
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DIY-HP-LED

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hanimmal said:
It comes down to the IG not being able to investigate attorneys of any level in the government. Barr knows as long as he is AG he can't be investigated, think he knew he would be breaking the law a lot.
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He was betting on a Trump second term, anybody who bets on Donald loses. The polls must be driving him nuts, I've seen some of the people on TV who want his ass and some will hold high positions in the DOJ, for some the place was like a temple and Barr shit on the altar right before the congregation. It's win or die for Bill, he ain't as crazy as Donald, but every bit as desperate.
 
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DIY-HP-LED said:
If ya look back on it, Bill Barr has really been all in with Trump since the Ukraine, I think he never thought he's actually break the law, but he was easily corrupted since he was already anyway. Bullshitting on the Mueller report and other things weren't illegal per se, but as he continued to cover for Trump he quickly got sucked into criminal acts. The ukraine scandal makes Billy boy part of a very serious criminal conspiracy that alone could put him away for the rest of his miserable life. This does not include the violation of 1st amendment rights at La Fayette park or the use of unidentified federal personal to assault citizens.

Bill Barr is as desperate as Donald these days, another guy who is facing a dismal legal future, this guy will probably end up doing himself, a future suicide. Bill must be nervous these days, there are thousands of former DOJ officials and prosecutors who are eager to chop off his head, many will be in Joe's administration. Desperate people do desperate things though, he's an asshole, but he works for an even bigger asshole and moron. Image what would happen to him if he resigned or was fired, Donald would turn on him in a heartbeat and under the bus he goes!
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which is why we will have one more shoe that will drop before November.

it may be known as THE TRUMP TRIFECTA or TRUMP HAT TRICK..referencing sports/casino in some way, the 3 things that brought him down..MANGO MAGGOT'S MULLIGAN when he walks.

  1. pandemic
  2. protest
  3. pee-pee tape?
 
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He was betting on a Trump second term, anybody who bets on Donald loses. The polls must be driving him nuts, I've seen some of the people on TV who want his ass and some will hold high positions in the DOJ, for some the place was like a temple and Barr shit on the altar right before the congregation. It's win or die for Bill, but he ain't as crazy as Donald, but every bit as desperate.
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bingo.
 
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