The White House has issued a formal threat to Trump's former national security adviser to keep him from publishing his book, sources tell CNN
Washington The White House has issued a formal threat to former national security adviser John Bolton to keep him from publishing his book,"The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir," sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.
In a letter to Bolton's lawyer, a top official at the National Security Council wrote the unpublished manuscript of Bolton's book"appears to contain significant amounts of classified information" and couldn't be published as written.The letter, which is dated January 23, said some of the information was classified at the"top secret" level, meaning it"reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave harm to the national security.
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