Mark Zaid on Bolton’s Home Raid: He Should Be Concerned, His Book, Reviewed by the W.H. Was Full of Classified Information

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ZAID: "Sure. Always good to be with you, Aaron. So. And this could be. Still political. As you. Said, if this. Search had happened five years. Ago, I would totally understand. It‘s when it‘s happening that is the issue. But here‘s the specific concerns that he needs to have. I‘ve represented many former government officials up to the secretaries of defense, including in the Trump Administration, to have their books reviewed. When bolton submitted. His book. For review to the White House. It was initially determined. 500 pages. To be full. Of. Voluminous amounts of classified information. How did that. Book first get to the White House? It was reviewed by bolton‘s lawyer. By bolton‘s literary agent. By bolton‘s publishers. Those are all unauthorized disclosures of classified information. Historically. For the last. Five decades, as. Long as the government was able to process the book. And there was an agreement that there was nothing classified in it when it was. Published. The government would overlook those. Prior violations. But that was a practice. And a policy. It‘s not the law. And it looks like the Trump Administration is changing that practice."