Lemme Just Say

...fuck John Bolton.

And fuck whoever lets him continue playing his stoopid little power games - never calling him on the bullshit he floats every time he opens his mouth.

Jeff Toobin gets most of it right, even though he bogs down a little, doing the lawyer thing where he concentrates on the law itself instead of the effects of the actions of the people who always think they have the right to fuck around with the law in order to get what they want at the expense of the greater good.

If there's no greater good being served by the law, then the law becomes a selective boutique serving only the interests of plutocrats.

And yes, you can argue that we have to test the law so we can tweak it, trying to make it work better. But that process itself gets hijacked on a regular basis, and we end up fighting about the wrong thing - we fight about whether or not someone has sufficient power to bend the law to his will, instead of addressing the fact that he broke the fucking law and he has to be held to account for it.

New Yorker:

During the impeachment investigation, John Bolton, President Trump’s onetime national-security adviser, played a cagey game with Congress. He dropped hints suggesting that he knew a great deal about the President’s dealings with Ukraine—information that would have been highly relevant to the investigation. He also had a big deal with Simon & Schuster for a tell-all about his time in the Trump Administration, and the book had a tantalizing title: “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir.” Bolton dodged testifying before either the House or the Senate, thus preserving his news-making disclosures for the book-buying public.

But Bolton may have outfoxed himself. Like anyone with access to classified information, he signed a prepublication-review agreement. Each government agency that allowed Bolton access to its information—and, in the case of a national-security adviser, that would have been virtually all of them—has the right to review his manuscript and to excise purportedly improper disclosures. Bolton left the government on bad terms with Trump, and it looks like the Administration may be taking revenge through the review process. Charles Cooper, Bolton’s lawyer, has already complained about how the Administration is delaying and revising Bolton’s book, and his publication date has already slipped from March to May. But there’s no guarantee that the review process will even be finished by May, either. (Cooper and a spokeswoman for Simon & Schuster declined to comment.)