Criminal Probe Opened Into John Bolton’s Book

“The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into whether President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton unlawfully disclosed classified information when he published a memoir this summer, a case that the department opened after it failed to stop the book’s publication this summer,” the New York Times reports.

“The department has convened a grand jury and subpoenaed for communications records from Simon & Schuster, which published Mr. Bolton’s memoir, The Room Where It Happened, a highly unflattering account of his 17 months working in the Trump administration.”

Wall Street Journal: “The development underscores the unusual nature of the Trump administration’s battles with both its own former senior officials and the publishing industry, and is one of the biggest such escalations to date.”