Excusing blatant cruelty to the American people
Mr. Bolton and his publisher deserve accolades for challenging hoary restrictions on information needed by the citizenry to hold government accountable.
All too often the only way to get this information is to become an insider, sign secrecy agreements, serve enough time to learn the procedures close at hand, prepare and release publicly available accounts for open access and critique.
These insider views, if honest, substantial, truthful and eventually verifiable, compensate for more limited accounts by journalists and scholars able to access only partial evidence which may be colored by attention-getting embellishments to appeal to purchasers.
No question that insider accounts are affected by requirements of public appeal for their work to be published. However, these insiders have the advantage of direct experience, eye-witnessing of what they write, speak and perform.
What to make of Mr. Bolton's leap into the public cage fighting for audience incitement? At least to expect dramatic body slamming, head butting, eye gouging, pain faking, referee punching, while filling the empty caverns of cardboard fans, strobe lights twirling, hard rock pounding, pretty much the same of his former boss is doing at pressers, at rallies, on Twitter, mock-confessed to Padre Woodward: excusing blatant cruelty to the American people.