John Bolton is a warmonger. But he deserves a fair shake

I should have zero sympathy for former United Nations ambassador and National Security Adviser John Bolton, who was just indicted for a whopping 18 counts of mishandling classified information — more than three times the number of counts in similar Espionage Act prosecutions over the past 15 years. When I did advocacy work for Chelsea Manning, Bolton suggested that if found guilty, she should be punished by death. In 2013, Bolton famously said of another client: “My view is that [Edward] Snowden committed treason, he ought to be convicted of that, and then he ought to swing from a tall oak tree.”

My cup of schadenfreude should be running over right about now. It is not, however, because President Donald Trump’s trademark rambling and ill-advised statements could very well tank the crimina