The U.S. government has launched legal action to block the publication of the book by John Bolton, Donald Trump's former national security adviser, which he claims contains classified information. The book is due for release on June 23, Bolton's attorney Charles Cooper said last week. Donald Trump warned Monday that John Bolton would break the law if the book were to be released.
The American president brutally dismissed on September 10 the one who was then one of his main advisers, against a backdrop of disagreements over the management of several sensitive files like North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan and Russia. In a recent column in the Wall Street Journal , Charles Cooper writes that his client has made multiple rewrites at the request of the White House to ensure that classified information is not revealed. Charles Cooper adds that Bolton thought he had the White House's approval in May but never received a letter confirming it.
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On June 8, he said, a senior representative of the National Security Council replied in a letter that Bolton's manuscript "contains classified information and that publishing the book would violate his nondisclosure agreements . " "This is a transparent attempt to use national security as a pretext to censor Mr. Bolton, in violation of his constitutional right to speak out on matters of the utmost public importance. This attempt will not succeed, and Mr. Bolton will publish the book on June 23, " concludes Cooper.