John Bolton, Trump's former national security adviser wrote the scandal book "The Room Where It Happened ", the memory of his delicate position when he sat next to President Trump in the "control room" from April to September of the year 2019. It will be published next Tuesday. President Trump has called for the intervention of the Justice because the contents of the book would reveal "secret" intelligence activities capable of compromising national security.
The tycooon's thesis is also supported by the director of the largest American spy agency that, in a note, supports John Bolton's book capable of seriously compromising some of the secrets of intelligence.
The White House sued Bolton for failing to subject the text to the necessary pre-publication checks by government officials. President Trump's legal team also claims that, if published, the book would harm critical areas of US national security.
On Wednesday, the White House position on the book was also confirmed by the director of the National Security Agency, General Paul M. Nakasone. In an affidavit signed at the United States District Court in Washington, General Nakasone, who was appointed legal counsel to the National Security Council, stated the need to review "a portion" of Bolton's book, because it would reveal "classified information" by high level, "top secret".
According to the affidavit of Gen. Nakasone, "la Compromise of this information could result in the permanent loss of a valuable SIGINT source and cause irreparable damage to the entire US SIGINT architecture".
SIGINT refers to the activity of collecting intelligence information through the interception of communication signals exchanged orally between people or mediated through the use of capture by electronic means.
General Nakasone goes on to say that unauthorized disclosure of the information contained in Bolton's book could "reasonably cause exceptionally serious damage"To the national security of the United States.
"US and allied relations" would break. The director of the NSA does not specify in detail the precise damage that Bolton's revelations could cause to US national security, saying only that the information would compromise an "ability" to gather information that "involves significant investments of personnel and money".
Alongside General Nakasone's affidavit, the Justice Department filed an emergency complaint Wednesday, seeking to block the publication of Bolton's book for national security reasons.