Comments on: What Bolton is alleged to have done https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/21/what-bolton-is-alleged-to-have-done/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:15:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/21/what-bolton-is-alleged-to-have-done/#comment-2827059 Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:15:13 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144819#comment-2827059 Art Deco, if he’d created a hard copy diary at home, rather than sending it electronically, it wouldn’t have been hacked with the subsequent disclosure of the information to hostile foreign forces.
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Just to clarify, I don’t categorically object to quondam officials writing memoirs, though I think it’s something they generally should not do. I don’t categorically object to them keeping a diary at home, though I can see dangers in that and you could argue doing that is not according to spec. I don’t categorically object to them talking to their wives, but that’s not according to spec either. (Someone once said of the late Betsy North, “In the tradition of military wives, she seldom asked”). Now, if it were my doctor yapping about my medical issues, I might object. I’ll wager physicians and surgeons are storytellers, but I’d also wager they seldom if ever put a name on those stories. (Yes, I think the daughters of Donald Trump’s podiatrist were lying).
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If he had a home diary or spilled some beans to his wife, I think it would be reasonable for a federal prosecutor to put his case at the bottom of the priority pile, i.e. nulle prossed. If he’s transmitting documents electronically to his wife and daughter on day one, that’s something else. I’m rolling my eyes because I wager the guy is a maroon.
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As for Hellary and her minions, the spoilation of evidence merited prosecution if nothing else did.

]]> By: J.J. https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/21/what-bolton-is-alleged-to-have-done/#comment-2827024 Wed, 22 Oct 2025 03:59:35 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144819#comment-2827024 I will say this for Bolton. Much information is over classified, and errors of storage, saving, and disposing of such information is violated or done in error quite a lot. That said, that’s not a defense, especially if classified info has been hacked by an adversary.

Storing info to use in a future book is probably done more than we know. Again, that doesn’t make it right. Hopefully, the trial will tell the whole tale.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/21/what-bolton-is-alleged-to-have-done/#comment-2827002 Wed, 22 Oct 2025 02:14:37 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144819#comment-2827002 Democrats no longer even attempt to act in good faith.

They just throw out any available arguments or accusations and pretend they have shown the utter perfidy of Republicans.

So of course any legal efforts of the DOJ against Democrats will be proof that it is Trump’s vindictive lawfare against his opponents. There is no way to argue with them about it.

As I see it, Republicans have no choice but to pursue these cases with all due force and let the wheels of justice grind however imperfectly.

I doubt Democrats will realize that they were wrong, but they may remember the pain.

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/21/what-bolton-is-alleged-to-have-done/#comment-2826975 Tue, 21 Oct 2025 23:22:35 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144819#comment-2826975 Hillary Clinton did far worse, deliberately, and Trump 45 decided not to prosecute. This was a mistake, and they’re not going to make that kind of mistake this time around. As you say, Neo, if there are no consequences for illegal behavior, it will be repeated.

Art Deco, if he’d created a hard copy diary at home, rather than sending it electronically, it wouldn’t have been hacked with the subsequent disclosure of the information to hostile foreign forces.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/21/what-bolton-is-alleged-to-have-done/#comment-2826969 Tue, 21 Oct 2025 22:49:47 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144819#comment-2826969 If this is true as stated, it’s due an eyeroll. Nothing prevented him from keeping a hard copy diary at home. And if he wants to talk to his wife about his work, he can do so over dinner.

]]> By: Harry Mallory https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/21/what-bolton-is-alleged-to-have-done/#comment-2826968 Tue, 21 Oct 2025 22:48:37 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144819#comment-2826968 Unsecure, not insecure.

]]> By: Geoffrey Britain https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/21/what-bolton-is-alleged-to-have-done/#comment-2826963 Tue, 21 Oct 2025 22:19:01 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144819#comment-2826963 Bolton, Comey and now Brennan…

Hopefully they’re just getting started.

]]> By: John+Guilfoyle https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/21/what-bolton-is-alleged-to-have-done/#comment-2826959 Tue, 21 Oct 2025 21:49:01 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144819#comment-2826959 How often, in the BadOrangeMan camp, do we soon discover that an accusation is really a confession?

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