Bolton:Trump ok'd China's camps, didn't know UK had nukes, thought Finland was Russia

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(06-19-2020, 03:56 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: Classified material should remain classified. Revealing Trump asked if Finland was a part of Russia isn’t classified.

No, but that's where the snake bites its tail a bit. For it also is not an information the public needs to know. And it sets a precedent you might not really want to be set.

It opens the door for basically everyone to publish a book about conversations with the US president, who will lose the possibility to share his thoughts in confidence. Which is a bad development. You don't want to put your president in a situation where he constantly has to wonder if his counterpart will share the conversation with the public.

Which is why I can really understand what bfine is saying here. Presidential advisors should be bound to discretion. Except when actual laws are broken, in which case they should not choose a book deal to tell about it.