Manuscript of his experience of the cia. They came back to him and said to him and his publish of their 339 passages we have to delete they are revealing a National Security information for they went to court, they fought over, the cia cut that from three to 39 down to 168 and at the end of the day 30. The publisher put out the book with white spaces for the 30, boldface for the 160 they did in the tally for the other so as an object lesson in how subjective so much of this Government Data that was the formal start of the review process inside the process. So they dicker through the review process he did submit it before publishing the book . The case of monopoly to the Supreme Court was about a guy named frank who did not submit his book. That is what the judge is referring to the bolton case when he said bolton is risking losing his royalties. In 1980 he upheld the seizures of his book advance, all of his Royalty Income because he did not give the book to the cia for review. Now the
Good afternoon, im bob costa, National Political reporter at the Washington Post. Today im joined by ambassador john bolton, President Trumps former National Security adviser, and he is the author of the room where it happened, a white house memoir, ambassador bolton, welcome. Thank you, thanks for having me. Lets begin with the opening of your book. It has a detailed recounting of how you joined the Trump Administration. Why did you join the administration in the first place given what you wrote in the book about the president s behavior who was largely known beforehand . I had the honor to serve in prior republican administrations in state department and Justice Department and i felt that it was a time of great challenge for the United States. I thought that the prior 8 years of the Obama Administration had seen a lot of misguided policies that had weakened our National Security posture and and i hoped i could make a contribution. I was obviously aware of many of the things that had
Delete because they are revealing National Security information. They went to court and cut that over and cia cut to 339 to 168 and at the end of the day 30 publicker put outed publisher put bold space and so much of this can be. That was process inside the intelligences community. He did go through review process. Right, the case that went to the Supreme Court was about a guy named frank who did not thats what its referring to in bolton case. Bolton is risking losing. In 1980 the Supreme Court upheld the seizure of all of royalties. He did not give the book for review. The government admitted it didnt have classified information but what they went after snip on he violated his contract and the Supreme Court without holding oral arguments without even fully briefing took away all of his royalties in the snip case and the irony is and book tv would love this is that years later when researchers got into the justices papers they found that Justice Powell drove that opinion because he was
I would think he would have criminal problems. I hope so. Good afternoon and the National Political reporter at the washington post. Today i am joined by ambassador john bolton President Trumps former National Security advisor and of the white house memoir ambassador bolton. Thank you for having me. Lets begin with the opening of your book that has a detailed account of the Trump Administration. Why did you join the administration in the first place given what you wrote in the book about the president s behavior before hand . I had the honor of serving in prior administrations with the Justice Department and the state department so i felt it was a time for the United States the prior eight years of the Obama Administration had seen a lot of misguided policies and i hope i could make a contribution. And those that have been said about donald trump. And those where i discussed my views and his views. And certainly nobody has ever accused about my views but and in the press and to be over
In the international organization, the american journal of political science, journal of politics and security studies, he is already launched on the second book project which is very ambitious which analyzes the role of Sensitive Information and secrecy in international organizations. He received his ph. D from ohio state in 2013 and as i previously mentioned, he was a Summer Research scholar under the title eight program here at the Cannon Institute in 2013. So with that ill turn the floor over to austin. Great. Thanks so much, will. Thanks also to all of you for coming out. It is great to be back here at the Wilson Center and i appreciate the support, the support of the Cold War International history project and shout out to victoria and cindy for all youve done to make it possible to come out here. So i want to start my talk about this book with a simple but i think profound question. Which is how have we as an International Community avoided world war iii. After suffering two cata