Peter Navarro

And they send the manuscript through a publication review, for example, if you're a CIA officer.

And oftentimes, those reviewers will say, sorry, you can't say that.

It was classified.

We're keeping that out of the book.

Well, that information was classified.

It went over an unclassified email system.

Those people don't get prosecuted for doing that.

What's at issue here are not documents marked classified, which was the case in the Donald Trump indictment.

This was information that John Bolton gathered and wrote down in diaries and sent that the FBI and the CIA and other people have determined contain national defense information.

And when you look at the descriptions in the indictment, it's pretty clear that some of it probably did.

But the question here is, where is the line for people who are writing books

if they're john bolton did go through the publication review process here now uh now there's allegations that he ignored some of the suggestions from people about what to leave out of the book but uh there's a lawyer named mark zade who represents a lot of people who write books and what he was saying last night is that if you're going to prosecute john bolton you got to prosecute a lot of other people who wrote books and had potentially classified information uh on their email systems which was then left out of the books but which was actually sensitive

And the other thing is Abby Lowell, John Bolton's lawyer, is saying here that this was not classified.

These were this was information that he kept for diaries.

And he said that the FBI has known about this for a long time.

And that's true.

This arose in the Biden administration.

And what seems to be the case is that they did not know the extent of what was in at least one of his email accounts until they discovered that Iran, they discovered the material that Iran had hacked through a U.S.

intelligence penetration of Iran.

That's according to my reporting.