Doug Jehl has a piece in the New York Times today reporting that Bolton didn’t just get the names of individuals redacted from NSA intercepts, but also the names of American companies. This is noteworthy, why? Remember the Democratic theory is that Bolton made these requests to pursue his alleged vendetta against certain individual intelligence analysts. That he was requesting the names of companies suggests that Bolton was, among other things, trying to find out what companies might be engaged in illegal trade with rogue states. This was Bolton’s job. So this new information is exculpatory. But it has already spawned out-there conspiracy theories on the left (of course, duly promoted by Joshua Micah Marshall).