Ellen Knight, the former NSC official who oversaw the prepublication review of former national security advisor John Bolton’s book, filed an extensive and extraordinary letter with the court in the DOJ’s case against Bolton. Through her attorney Kenneth L. Wainstein, Knight describes a “designedly apolitical process [that] had been commandeered by political appointees for a seemingly political purpose.” She says that White House officials, starting with the National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien and acting through NSC attorney Michael Ellis, a “political appointee with no previous classification authority experience,” falsely and erroneously found that Bolton’s book contained classified information. Knight says […]