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(CNN)There's a fusillade of ugly revelations in John Bolton's long-awaited book, "The Room Where It Happened" -- which the Trump administration is still trying to block in court.
They're arguing that his first-person memoir is simultaneously all lies -- and at the same time in violation of governmental secrecy laws, which makes no sense. As CNN analyst Susan Hennessey explained, "there's no such thing as a classified lie."
But this is just another desperate attempt by the Trump administration to replay its core playbook: deny, project, deflect and divide.
(CNN)There's a fusillade of ugly revelations in John Bolton's long-awaited book, "The Room Where It Happened" -- which the Trump administration is still trying to block in court.
They're arguing that his first-person memoir is simultaneously all lies -- and at the same time in violation of governmental secrecy laws, which makes no sense. As CNN analyst Susan Hennessey explained, "there's no such thing as a classified lie."
But this is just another desperate attempt by the Trump administration to replay its core playbook: deny, project, deflect and divide.
