A retired Army officer who worked as a civilian Air Force employee has pleaded guilty to conspiring to share classified information about Russia's war with Ukraine.

The Justice Department has announced criminal charges in connection with a scheme by North Korea to fund its weapons program through the salaries of remote information technology employed unwittingly by U.S. companies.

WASHINGTON The White House has told former national security adviser John Bolton that the manuscript of his forthcoming memoir still contains classified material and could present a national security threat. But Boltons lawyer said Wednesday that publication will go ahead as planned on June 23 and he accused the White House of unfairly trying to keep it on ice. What followed was perhaps the most extensive and intensive prepublication review in NSC history, Cooper wrote. Then Bolton received the letter on Monday that White House concerns about classified material in the book remain. The White House declined comment Wednesday.

(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)WASHINGTON, DC The Latest on President Donald Trump and the House impeachment inquiry (all times local):1:05 p.m.House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff says transcripts will be released Tuesday of two interviews central to the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. ___12:45 p.m.House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff says the four no-show impeachment witnesses are just more fodder for the list of President Donald Trump's obstruction of the impeachment inquiry. Four officials defied subpoenas Monday, including lead lawyer for the National Security Council John Eisenberg and White House aide Robert Blair. The House impeachment panels are starting to release transcripts from their investigation. Yovanovitch was the target of a smear campaign before being recalled from her post by President Donald Trump.

But the subsequent effort to lock down the rough transcript suggests some people in the White House viewed the president's conversation as problematic. Ellis, the other White House lawyer being asked to testify, was with Eisenberg when he made the suggestion to move the document into the more secure server. Ellis is no stranger to White House controversies. Eisenberg and Ellis, both part of the White House legal staff, declined to comment through an NSC spokesman. According to one of the individuals familiar with the White House classified computer systems, Eisenberg couldn't have actually moved it to N.I.C.E.