“A grand jury is convening today to consider charges against ex-national security chief John Bolton over sharing classified documents.
It comes two months after an FBI raid on the former Trump staffer's Maryland home in search of allegedly stolen 'highly sensitive national security' files.
DOJ expects an indictment to be filed against the 76-year-old on Wednesday or Thursday. The case is 'air tight,' sources told the New York Post.
Bolton is accused of using his private email account to remove secret information and record detailed minutes of his daily activities during his time in office.
Bolton served as an adviser to Trump from April 2018 until the president fired him September 2019. …”
Former Trump Advisor John Bolton Is In Deep Trouble
A federal grand jury in Maryland has reportedly indicted former national security adviser John Bolton.
Two sources told CNN that Bolton is being indicted for allegedly sharing classified information with his wife and daughter over email.
Sources previously told CNN that part of the Justice Department’s investigation centers around notes he was making to himself in an AOL email account — at times writing summaries of his activities like diary entries — when he was working for Trump.
FBI agents executed a search warrant on Bolton’s Maryland home and Washington, DC, office this summer. The agents seized multiple documents labeled “secret,” “confidential,” and “classified,” including some about weapons of mass destruction, according to court records.
Bolton’s alleged mishandling of documents dates back to his government roles prior to his work in the first Trump administration. The investigation focused partly on notes Bolton made to himself in a private AOL email account.
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October 16, 2025, 05:12 PM
tatortodd
It's always good to celebrate progress and have a hopeful look towards the future.
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Originally posted by 12131: Comey, ckeck James, check Bolton, check
Next: Brennan Clapper Pence Milley Fauci (and his former NIH boss Collins) Willis
^^^ THIS ^^^
I want to see a court challenge of the autopen pardon's without explicit Biden approval.
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Former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton Indicted
Bolton was the national security adviser in 2018 and 2019.
John Bolton, who served as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser during the president’s first term, was indicted on Oct. 16 for allegedly sharing classified materials on a private email server.
Bolton, 76, sent certain individuals notes from meetings with senior members of the U.S. government, according to charging papers. The indictment focused on two unnamed individuals with whom Bolton allegedly shared sensitive information. Both of those individuals were related to Bolton, according to the indictment filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.
During his time as national security adviser, Bolton allegedly sent them “diary-like entries” on a regular basis that “contained information classified up to a ‘TOP SECRET/SCI’ level.”
Bolton faces 18 counts related to retention and transmission of national defense information.
The documents involved contained intelligence, including foreign countries’ intelligence and information about covert action conducted by the U.S. government.
For example, the indictment offers the following description for one of the documents containing Top Secret information: “Reveals intelligence that a foreign adversary was planning a missile launch in the future; a covert action in a foreign country that is related to sensitive inter-governmental actions; sensitive sources and methods used to collect human intelligence.”
Another, which was allegedly retained by Bolton, was described in the following way: “Reveals sources and collection used to obtain statements of a foreign adversary; covert action conducted by the U.S. Government in a foreign country.”
As national security adviser, Bolton had a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) within his home that was approved for processing and storage of classified information. But “at no point,” the indictment reads, was he “authorized to store or transmit classified information on unclassified systems.”
Bolton allegedly used his personal non-governmental email accounts to email top secret information.
“At no point did Bolton have authorization to store or transmit the classified information that he sent to Individuals 1 and 2 via his personal electronic devices and accounts,” the indictment reads. “Nor did, at any time, Individuals 1 or 2 have authorization to know or store the classified information that Bolton gave to them.”
Bolton, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush, became Trump’s national security adviser in 2018. Trump fired Bolton in 2019, and they have criticized each other in the intervening years.
The charges come after authorities recovered documents and other items during a search of Bolton’s home in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside Washington. The search was to look for “evidence of a crime,” according to court documents. “The materials taken from Amb. Bolton’s home are the ordinary records of a 40-year career serving this country,” Abbe Lowell, an attorney representing Bolton, previously told news outlets in a statement. “Any thorough review will show nothing inappropriate was stored or kept by Amb. Bolton.”
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October 16, 2025, 05:31 PM
tatortodd
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As national security adviser, Bolton had a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) within his home that was approved for processing and storage of classified information. But “at no point,” the indictment reads, was he “authorized to store or transmit classified information on unclassified systems.”
Bolton allegedly used his personal non-governmental email accounts to email top secret information.
[Captain Obvious]Taking information from a SCIF to your personal computer does not happen by accident[/Captain Obvious]
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Why anyone granted a clearance under contract backed by federal regulation and law would break that trust, never made sense to me under any circumstances, even "harmless" circumstances when exposed to obviously "over-classified" material. But I've never been related with wealth or power, guess if you're challenged with those and happen to be gifted with crappy morals and ethics, all kinds of bad shit can happen. As it should.
Oops.
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October 16, 2025, 08:16 PM
bigwagon
I hope his legal defense bankrupts him. If the DOJ doesn't also go after his family who received the classified info, then he should consider that all the mercy he deserves (which should be none).
October 16, 2025, 08:45 PM
egregore
This, if true, is worse than what Trump was accused of. IIRC, Trump only took documents home with him, stashed them in a secure location and didn't blab the contents all over the place.
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October 16, 2025, 08:50 PM
bigwagon
What Trump did is not even a crime. As POTUS, the sole discretion to declassify any document or information rests solely on his authority. Any documents he held are automatically declassified if he says so. That's far different than what Biden was accused of too, because the VP has no such power.
October 16, 2025, 08:51 PM
12131
The deal with these maggots is, they were so sure that Trump was politically done for. So, they’re ran around yapping and writing and thumbing their collective nose at him. A total miscalculation on their part, and it’s payback time.This message has been edited. Last edited by: 12131,
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October 16, 2025, 08:54 PM
egregore
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What Trump did is not even a crime.
Agreed, but that didn't stop the FBI from searching the home in a glorified college fraternity panty raid, did it?
"The Almighty, He put some livin' things on this earth so a man can eat." - Festus Haggen, Gunsmoke
October 16, 2025, 08:57 PM
nhtagmember
I’d like to see a swat team arrest at 5am.
October 16, 2025, 09:06 PM
JoseyWales2
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Originally posted by 6guns:
As national security adviser, Bolton had a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) within his home that was approved for processing and storage of classified information. But “at no point,” the indictment reads, was he “authorized to store or transmit classified information on unclassified systems.”
If Bolton had an approved SCIF in his personal home, then what other officials have one of these? Sec. of State, Sec. of War, VP, President? Why wouldn't Trump have one at Mar-a-Lago? This raises even more questions about the FBI raid there and the alleged "reasons" for it.
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October 16, 2025, 09:13 PM
parabellum
But this is merely political retribution by Donald Trump, y'see.
