!function(n){if(!window.cnx){window.cnx={},window.cnx.cmd=[];var t=n.createElement( iframe );t.display= none ,t.onload=function(){var n=t.contentWindow.document,c=n.createElement( script );c.src= //cd.connatix.com/connatix.player.js ,c.setAttribute( async , 1 ),c.setAttribute( type , text/javascript ),n.body.appendChild(c)},n.head.appendChild(t)}}(document);(new Image()).src = https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b ;cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({ playerId : ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b , mediaId : 24799d16-9a7d-45f6-b621-428ddc12e76f }).render( 68f16448e4b0ab08d3197f17 );});John Bolton, a former national security adviser turned vocal critic of President Donald Trump, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland on eight counts of transmission of national defence information and 10 counts of unlawful retention of national defense information.According to the indictment, from April 2018 to September 2019, Bolton shared over 1,000 pages of “information about his day-to-day activities” as national security adviser in “diary-like entries” with two members of his reportedly, according to CNN, Bolton’s wife and daughter. Some of the entries allegedly included top-secret information. Commenting on the charges against his former national security adviser from the Oval Office on Thursday, President Donald Trump remarked, “I didn’t know that. I think he’s a bad person. I think he’s a bad guy, yeah. Bad guy. Too bad, but that’s the way it goes.”Bolton, prosecutors allege, sent the entries to their personal email accounts through his own personal AOL and Google email accounts. The Justice Department also alleges that Bolton had what is known as a “sensitive compartmented information facility,” or SCIF, at his Maryland home while he was serving in the Trump administration in 2018. SCIFs are meant to hold classified or sensitive information securely. But after his time with the administration ended in 2019, his home was “decertified” for storage of classified materials, the indictment notes.At “no point,” however, was Bolton allowed to store materials or send them using an AOL account, prosecutors wrote. The indictment alleges that “government personnel” retrieved records and other equipment stored on Bolton’s home SCIF in September 2019, and that Bolton failed to mention that he had shared any secret defense information once he was told the SCIF would be decommissioned. Prosecutors say Bolton was hacked by someone from the Islamic Republic of Iran who gained access to his email accounts, including the personal ones he allegedly used to share secrets with his family members. “A representative for Bolton notified the U.S. government of the hack in or about July 2021, but did not tell the U.S. government that the account contained national defense information, including classified information, that Bolton had placed in the account from his time as national security adviser,” the indictment states. “Nor did Bolton’s representative tell the U.S. government that Bolton had shared some of that national defense information, including classified information ... via personal email and a non-governmental messaging application.” The FBI raided Bolton’s home and office in Bethesda, Maryland, in a search for classified records in August. Agents, who had a warrant, took Bolton’s iPhones, a hard drive, several computers and a series of records Bolton had labeled “statements and reflections to allied strikes” and four boxes labeled “printed daily activities.”Bolton first came under investigation by the Justice Department during Trump’s first term in September 2020. He was investigated over the possible illegal use or disclosure of classified materials tied to his tell-all book, “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir.” The book, which cataloged Bolton’s 17 months as Trump’s national security adviser, openly critiqued Trump and what Bolton described as the president’s “singular” focus on power. Bolton, who did not speak against Trump during his first impeachment for abuse of power, wrote in the 2020 memoir that he was often left “astonished” by Trump. He regarded him as a “president for whom getting reelected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation.” (Trump fired Bolton over social media over a nixed plan to host Taliban leaders at Camp David during Trump’s first Bolton claimed he had resigned voluntarily.)The Justice Department during Trump’s first term had sued Bolton to stop the book’s release and failed. Ultimately, the probe into Bolton’s book was dropped under President Joe Biden’s administration in 2021 and resumed under the new Trump administration. Some investigators at the Justice Department, according to Reuters, reportedly felt uncertain about the speed of the probe against Bolton. The Justice Department indicted two of the president’s longtime opponents,former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, less than a month after Trump posted a screed on Truth Social naming Attorney General Pam Bondi and urging “Pam” to bring charges against them. Bolton is expected to surrender himself on Friday, according to CNN. Abbe Lowell, Bolton’s attorney, did not immediately return a request for comment to HuffPost on Thursday. In a statement, FBI director Kash Patel celebrated the indictment, saying the “case was based on meticulous work from dedicated career professionals at the FBI who followed the facts without fear or favor. Weaponization of justice will not be tolerated, and this FBI will stop at nothing to bring to justice anyone who threatens our national security.”This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Saturday 18 October 2025
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Trump s Former National Security Adviser John Bolton Indicted


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