On January 23, three days before the NYT reported on stories said to appear in John Bolton’s book manuscript (and three days before Simon & Schuster’s metadata describing the book, showing the jacket and offering it for pre-order started appearing online), the National Security Council wrote to Bolton’s attorney that they had problems with the manuscript. Senior director for records, access and information security management Ellen Knight wrote to attorney Charles Cooper, as reported by Insider, “The manuscript appears to contain significant amounts of classified information. It also appears that some of this classified information is at the TOP SECRET […]