John Bolton has pleaded “not guilty” on 18 counts of illegally hoarding or sending sensitive national-security information, charges that could bring decades in prison — and if the feds have the evidence they claim, the case seems open-and-shut.
John Bolton has pleaded “not guilty” on 18 counts of illegally hoarding or sending sensitive national-security information, charges that could bring decades in prison — and if the feds have the evidence they claim, the case seems open-and-shut.
Figuring out where justice lies is a bit tougher.
These charges, note, come from career Justice Department officials; if politics entered into this case, it was the Biden-era decision to stop pursuing it.
Let us note that Bolton, a former UN ambassador and national security adviser, has long been a friend of these pages. Yet if he truly used his AOL account to email classified info to his wife and daughter, they seemingly have him dead to rights.
Thing is, the public doesn’t get to know what’s beneath “classified” and “top secret” labels — and over-classification is a notorious problem in Washington, as Jim Bovard noted in these pages when it was President Donald Trump in Team Biden’s crosshairs.
