Today's Nexus

John Bolton exhibits a good number of bad qualities - lying by commission isn't generally among them, nor is any kind of willingness to break the law concerning the disclosure of appropriately secret information.

WaPo:

A federal judge on Saturday rejected the Justice Department’s emergency request to block publication of John Bolton’s White House memoir but said the former Trump national security adviser “likely jeopardized national security” and exposed himself to criminal prosecution.

U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the District of Columbia denied the Trump administration’s request for a restraining order on the book, set for publication Tuesday, citing his publisher’s declaration that more than 200,000 copies have already shipped for sale.

But Lamberth noted that it appeared Bolton failed to complete a pre-publication government review and get written authority that his manuscript contained no classified information before publishing.

“While Bolton’s unilateral conduct raises grave national security concerns, the government has not established that an injunction is an appropriate remedy,” Lamberth wrote. “For reasons that hardly need to be stated, the Court will not order nationwide seizure and destruction of a political memoir.”

So what we've got is the the typical Daddy State bullshit coming from the White House.

ie: Bolton's book is nothing but a pack of lies and we have to keep it secret because of all the true stuff in it.

Let's be really clear about this though - John Bolton is no hero.

He should be allowed to speak out, and he should speak out.

But Bolton failed us when it really counted.

So John Bolton can have his say, and then he can go fuck himself with a pinecone.