Comments on: Bolton’s been indicted

By: Scioux

Scioux — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 22:20:36 +0000

Agree with most of the above, esp. Ty Rex. Bolton “served” the president while simultaneously recording high level info for a book he planned to publish about his experiences. Sleazy. He was another Trump first term personnel mistake.

By: Sennacherib

Sennacherib — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 13:21:49 +0000

Kate not Late!

By: Sennacherib

Sennacherib — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 13:21:13 +0000

Late,
I agree with you, your daughter is one of the little people, it must be galling!

By: R2L

R2L — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 03:22:31 +0000

MJR, your comment suggests we really need a sunset period on the classification of classified materials, even if it is 50 years. Or a mandatory review for continuing a prior classification after some period.

(Not saying it applies to you) but we could also have elderly people with dementia or other mental issues who inadvertently expose classified material late in life, with either no or significant impacts. They would logically no longer be held accountable for divulging such material, but if the information was that important it might still arrive in enemy hands.

Not sure how we protect against that? But people should not be facing legal jeopardy after an extended time span. At least for the vast amount of classified material.

By: R2L

R2L — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 03:08:56 +0000

Are we to understand this is something he did (or allowed) that is or was outside of the review process for allowing him to publish his book?
We have had prior conversations about the fuzzy lines around some classifying efforts as excessive and potentially merely CYA, etc. So are there grounds for clarifying those criteria, or the review process required prior to publishing a book that discusses tangentially classified information or actions and events dependent upon that information?

This evening the NBC analyst being interviewed about this suggested this type of case could take years to resolve. I do want to believe that the grand jury process resulting in this/these indictments was above board, even granting the one sided nature of such evaluations prior to going to open court.

By: M J R

M J R — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 02:44:06 +0000

Kate (7:47 pm), the same applies to me. I did top secret work more than four decades ago, and much of what I “know” from back then may well be *utterly* obsolete (but who knows?). No matter. I’d go to prison, probably for a significant term, exactly like Kate’s daughter. It’s *still* illegal to disclose or discuss in any way, and I know that quite well.

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:47:47 +0000

If my daughter, who has top secret clearances, were to email me about the content of her work, and her emails were discovered, she’d go to prison, probably for a significant term; not as long as if I were a foreign agent, but still, it’s illegal and she knows it. Bolton knew it too.

By: Steve (retired/recovering lawyer)

Steve (retired/recovering lawyer) — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:03:35 +0000

I hear he’s going to mount the Sandy Berger defense and hope for the same sentence: a fine, probation and loss of clearance.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:57:33 +0000

“He was in high positions, and duty bound to act professionally. He did not, willfully violating laws. He deserves a long prison sentence… ” SHIREHOME

“George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley estimated that Bolton could face a significant prison sentence of
five to twenty years in prison if convicted of possessing classified information.”

If all he gets is a slap on the wrist, trust in our justice system will take another hit and the left will have added another straw to the camel’s back…

By: Sennacherib

Sennacherib — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:37:40 +0000

Where are all the ” No one’s above the law” people?