October 19, 2025
No More (Bureaucrats Who Would Be) Kings
By Clarice Feldman
If you’re reading this today, you probably did not join the aged hippies marching around with signs saying “No more Kings,”a multistate demonstration whose sponsors are not yet fully disclosed. (I don’t think Meghan and Harry are among them, though there are some foreign donors involved.) But rest assured, you didn't miss much.
John Bolton: This Week in “No Man is Above the Law”The biggest domestic story of the week in my view was the indictment of former National Security Adviser John Bolton. If the 18-count indictment handed down by a federal grand jury in Maryland where he resides is proven, he demonstrated astonishing arrogance and disregard for national security.
In a Department of Justice release which accompanied the indictment, he is accused of eight counts of “transmission of national defense information (NDI) and10 counts of unlawful retention of NDI.
The indictment alleges that Bolton illegally transmitted NDI by using personal email and messaging application accounts to send sensitive documents classified as high as Top Secret. These documents revealed intelligence about future attacks, foreign adversaries, and foreign-policy relations.
The indictment also alleges that Bolton illegally retained NDI documents within his home. These documents included intelligence on an adversary’s leaders as well as information revealing sources and collections used to obtain statements on a foreign adversary.
If convicted, the defendant faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison for each count of unlawful retention of NDI and a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison for each count of transmission of NDI. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
This appears to be the result of an investigation conducted during the Biden administration that began in 2021 and was likely paused “when the Hur investigation began of Joe Biden keeping classified documents in his residence.”
more
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/10/no_more_bureaucrats_who_would_be_kings.html
