DOJ is seeking temp restraining order/motion for preliminary injunction against Bolton's book publication and NSA Director Nakasone said in an affidavit publication some classified info in the manuscript “could result in the permanent loss of a valuable SIGINT source and..." 
...cause irreparable damage to the U.S. SIGINT system." Nakasone adds, "exposure of this information could also cause considerable difficulties in U.S. and allied relations with specific nations...I have determined that the unauthorized disclosure of the classified info..."
...in the draft manuscript reasonably could be expected to result in exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States."
Nakasone says part of the manuscript has Top Secret/SCI information.
Nakasone says part of the manuscript has Top Secret/SCI information.
DNI John Ratcliffe: “The type of classified information in these passages is the type of information that foreign adversaries of the United States sen to obtain, at great cost, through covert intelligence collection. Unauthorized disclosure of these types of classified..."
"...information could reveal, in some instances, the limits and, in some instances, the capabilities of U.S. intelligence collection and would cause irreparable damage to national security.”
NSC Sr Director for Intel Programs Michael Ellis says in an unclassified affidavit, "certain passages" of the manuscript he saw "contain classified national security information” and “reasonably could be expected to cause damage, serious damage, or exceptionally grave damage..."
Trump's counterintel chief Bill Evanina says in unclass affidavit: “it is my judgment that the [info] contained in the passages I have reviewed is precisely what foreign adversaries’ [intel] services seek" to target.
The @CyberScoopNews story on this, with more context: cyberscoop.com/nsa-director-b…
