Two bits for a shave and a haircut on a National Security account?
Good grief! The rest of us are considered terrorists if we dare bring a razor onboard the aircraft, and our toothpaste is being confiscated at the gate, if it's even acceptable to carry a change of clothes.
This bespectacled fellow is just a little bit too "appropriate," well read and erudite in his dotage as an elderly man with all those classified documents.
Matt Margolis
Last month, a federal judge unsealed a redacted version of the affidavit prosecutors used to justify the court-approved search. Though heavily censored, the document centers largely on allegations tied to the publication of Bolton’s 2019 memoir, The Room Where It Happened. The judge expressed serious concern that the book may have included highly classified material, information so sensitive it could potentially jeopardize national security.
Most of us are familiar with "memoirs" of former Navy SEALs and other special forces. The memoirs are a rather sordid noir genre of thriller literature, non-fiction or possibly fictional but too close to real life to be comfortable, as the case may be.
Not to disrespect our Special Forces Veterans: the missions that are truly successful are the ones we never hear about or read about in the popular press.
Special Forces are a little bit more demanding than regular military duty, obviously. The crude barracks humor is no longer found to be funny, and the companionship of a "rough crew" of loose men and/or street hookers is no longer to be desired. The drinking companions and the bar buddies and their assorted prostitutes have got to go.
I Corinthians 5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Teetotaling at the bar doesn't work. If you eat what your friends are eating, but you don't drink what they're drinking, then they don't trust you. A "customer" walks into a restaurant, "I trust the food here but I don't believe in the alcohol being served." Such partial trust is not to be relied on. Extraverted people who drink alcohol are not lacking in companionship or desirous of sober friendship, obviously, everywhere people are seen or observed drinking. Temperance and abstinence are not boisterous but instead are always introverted, quiet, private or on the sly. The few victors who don't drink must take extreme care to avoid insulting the many losers who do drink alcohol to such great excess. The never-ending party pranks, practical jokes, dirty tricks and gratuitous assumptions need to be avoided by Special Forces.
Guardian staff
John Bolton, a former national security adviser in Donald Trump’s first administration, has vowed to defend his “lawful conduct” after a federal grand jury indicted him on charges of mishandling and transmitting classified information.
A national security advisor can't handle classified documents at his personal residence or in his personal vehicles, and he can't seek refuge in a court-martial to evade or terminate the jurisdiction of a lawful grand jury indictment in federal court on proper felony charges, either.