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updated 10:20 AM UTC, Dec 13, 2023

“The Room Where It Happened – A White House Memoir” Can Be Published – U.S. Judge

Unic Press UK: A federal judge in the U.S. ruled Friday that a former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, John Bolton, has rights to publish his work “The Room Where It Happened – A White House Memoir”, despite the content appearing to raise national security concerns.

“For reasons that hardly need to be stated, the Court will not order a nationwide seizure and destruction of a political memoir. In taking it upon himself to publish his book without securing final approval from national intelligence authorities, Bolton may indeed have caused the country irreparable harm. But in the Internet age, even a handful of copies in circulation could irrevocably destroy confidentiality”, a D.C. district judge, Royce Lamberth, said.

In a reaction to the ruling, President Trump, whose team of lawyers had prayed the court to stop the publication/circulation of the book as it contained classified information and could damage the U.S. national security, said the judge’s decision is a “big court win against Bolton”.

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