WASHINGTON

John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s third National Security Adviser, has pleaded not guilty to 18 Department of Justice charges that he illegally transmitted and retained classified national defense information. He should be presumed innocent unless and until he is proved guilty.

That said, I’m not buying Bolton’s pose as a national security graybeard who just wanted to help America and but now is the target of Trump’s quest for “retribution.”

That may be true of the case against former FBI Director James Comey . Former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy wrote in National Review, that the case against Comey was “so ill-conceived that the longer one analyzes it, the worse it gets.”

But the Bolton indictment details how he allegedly flouted national security protocols in furth

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