Ex-national security adviser expected to plead guilty in classified files case ⁠33%

By Katie Mettler⁠0%

6/26/2026, 9:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 5 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Negativity Bias, and False Dilemma, with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 82.8% saturation with 53 hits. Analysis detected 265 faulty-reasoning hits from 64 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 41.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠33% (14,763 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 67.40% of the article peer group.

John Bolton, who served as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser before becoming a vocal critic, is expected to plead guilty in federal court Friday to one count of retaining sensitive government information — a deal that could come with far less potential prison time than if he’d gone to trial and lost. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 82.8%Katie Mettler: 9.3%The Washington Post: 3.8%Confirmation Bias82.8%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.3%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 4.9%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 82.8%Katie Mettler: 30.2%The Washington Post: 21.5%Framing Effect82.8%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.8%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.9%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 3.6%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 3.6%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 82.8%Katie Mettler: 9.3%The Washington Post: 18.5%Negativity Bias82.8%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 2.2%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.8%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 2.1%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.4%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 2.4%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.0%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.9%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 2.1%The Washington Post: 5.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 82.8%Katie Mettler: 18.5%The Washington Post: 1.5%False Dilemma82.8%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 5.9%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.5%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 6.3%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.0%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 4.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.6%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.9%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 2.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 2.1%The Washington Post: 4.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 2.5%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 82.8%Katie Mettler: 9.3%The Washington Post: 15.2%Biased Writer Voice82.8%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 2.0%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 3.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Katie Mettler: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

64 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker83%attributed speech11writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageJohn Bolton • 53 words • 100.0% coverage
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John Bolton

100%flagged-word coverage
53 attributed words100% of attributed speech0% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%John Bolton: 100.0%100.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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