{UAH} Allan/Edmund/Gwokto/Gook/Pojim/WBK: U.S. judge declines to block release of book by former national security adviser John Bolton

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A U.S. judge declined to block the release for John R. Bolton's White House memoir. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

By 

Spencer S. Hsu 

June 20, 2020 at 10:40 a.m. EDT

A federal judge 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's actions raised "grave national security concerns."

U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth of Washington, D.C., denied the Trump administration's request for a restraining order on the book, due for publication Tuesday, citing its publisher's declaration that hundreds of thousands of copies have already shipped for sale.

But Lamberth noted that it appeared Bolton failed to complete a pre-publication 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.

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What you need to know about Trump's legal showdown with Bolton

The Justice Department filed a suit June 16 seeking to block the release of a book by former White House national security adviser John Bolton. (Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

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Lamberth said a private review of passages the government alleged contain classified information persuaded him that Bolton "likely jeopardized national security" through publication.

"The Room Where It Happened" recounts Bolton's 17 months as Trump's top national security official and offers a withering portrait of the president as an "erratic" and "stunningly uninformed" leader. Bolton called Trump incompetent and "unfit for office" in promotional interviews.

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