https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/heres-how-john-boltons-lawyer-just-threw-him-under-the-bus/ar-BB15qsp2
Lawyers who represent intelligence personnel drill this into clients at the very beginning. I regularly have my clients—especially the whistleblowers—write everything they want to tell me and send it to the prepublication review office before they tell me a single word of it. It’s a major hassle, and sometimes it alerts the agency that a lawyer is involved, but it keeps them from losing their clearances or their freedom. Some agencies—like the Central Intelligence Agency—will outright refuse to even discuss a prepublication review matter with anyone but the author, let alone allow the lawyer to submit the document.
The reason for this is simple. To an intelligence professional, there is little distinction between giving classified information to the general public and giving it to your priest. Once classified information is known by someone the government cannot control, it is in the wild and the assumption must be that it will be further disseminated. A security breach is a security breach. A television audience and a private lawyer are equally unauthorized to receive the information. It is why former CIA Director David Petraeus pleaded guilty to mishandling classified information simply because he gave it to his biographer.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/trump-former-adviser-bolton-faces-charges-if-book-released/
Knight said she thought the letter might be ready soon, but more than six weeks later, Bolton still hasn’t received it. On June 8, Bolton got a letter from John Eisenberg, the president’s deputy counsel for national security, who claimed that Bolton’s manuscript still contained classified information and that publishing the book would violate his nondisclosure agreements.
re: Grand Jury issues criminal subpoenas for Bolton, lawyer, publisher / South Korea still mightily pissed off headlines.
This may come as 'news' to some anons and newfags used to being spoon fed, but there are a multitude of other msm sources besides gateway Pundit.