It turns out Bolton's home was raided because during Biden's presidency intelligence officials stole information from a foreign adversary's spy agency which contained emails sent by John Bolton containing classified information. They were sent over unclassified email, and he was leaking the information to write his book.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/politics/bolton-trump-emails-fbi-investigation.htmlJohn Bolton Inquiry Eyes Emails Obtained by Foreign GovernmentIt is not clear what country intercepted Mr. Bolton’s private emails, but the investigation into President Trump’s former national security adviser picked up momentum under the Biden administration.The investigation into President Trump’s former national security adviser, John R. Bolton, began to pick up momentum during the Biden administration, when U.S. intelligence officials collected information that appeared to show that he had mishandled classified information, according to people familiar with the inquiry.The United States gathered data from an adversarial country’s spy service, including emails with sensitive information that Mr. Bolton, while still working in the first Trump administration, appeared to have sent to people close to him on an unclassified system, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive case that remains open.The investigation of Mr. Bolton, who has become an ardent critic of the president, burst back into public view last week when federal agents searched his Maryland home and Washington office.
While those searches have raised fresh questions about the extent to which Mr. Trump may be using the Justice Department and F.B.I. to try to punish those he dislikes, the new details of the case present a more complex chain of events. The disclosures suggest that a long-running investigation into Mr. Bolton’s activities changed over time, with some of the issues echoing past inquiries into the handling of national security secrets.The emails in question, according to the people, were sent by Mr. Bolton and included information that appeared to derive from classified documents he had seen while he was national security adviser. Mr. Bolton apparently sent the messages to people close to him who were helping him gather material that he would ultimately use in his 2020 memoir, “The Room Where It Happened.”In a sign of the stakes for Mr. Bolton, he is in talks to retain the high-profile criminal defense lawyer Abbe Lowell. Mr. Lowell, who has represented Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Mr. Biden’s son Hunter, is defending two other prominent perceived enemies of Mr. Trump who are now under scrutiny: the New York state attorney general, Letitia James, and Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve Board
No charges have been filed against Mr. Bolton. One major reason for conducting the searches was to see if Mr. Bolton possessed material that matched or corroborated the intelligence agency material, which, if found, would indicate that the emails found in the possession of the foreign spy service were genuine, the people said.A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment. Through a representative, Mr. Bolton declined to comment.Two federal judges authorized the warrants for the F.B.I. to conduct the searches. To obtain the search warrants, prosecutors would have had to show that they had reason to believe that Mr. Bolton possessed evidence that showed he could have mishandled classified information.Shortly before Mr. Bolton’s book was published, the Trump administration went to court seeking to delay its release. The Justice Department around that time also opened a criminal investigation into whether Mr. Bolton had mishandled classified information by disclosing certain details in the book. A judge later concluded he may well have published classified information, but the criminal investigation seemed to languish until the intelligence about his emails was gathered years later.
It is not clear what country intercepted Mr. Bolton’s private emails, but Iran, Russia and China all would have had intense interest in his communications while he was the national security adviser. Because of his role in helping Mr. Trump kill a top Iranian general, Mr. Bolton had a security detail to protect him from potential Iranian retaliation, but Mr. Trump abruptly ended it the day after he was sworn in for his second term.During Mr. Trump’s second term, John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director, briefed Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, on the information that had been collected about Mr. Bolton’s emails. The officials believed that the material Mr. Bolton had transcribed into the unclassified and unsecured email contained classified information. Each intelligence agency makes its own determinations about what information is classified, so it is often up to the “originating” agency to decide whether particular pieces of information are classified, and how sensitive they are.
So when will Hegseth be indicted for handing military secrets to the world?
>>1430216Idk Bolton committed his crime first and hasn't been indicted yet.
>>1430221seems unlikely, how many shnauzers have been indicted for crimes, historically
>>1430222>shnauzersAre you referencing Bolton's mustache?
>>1430200TL:DR could you shorten and paraphrase it for me?
>>1430216which is worseinviting journalists to the signal group chatorcloning signal from github and turn it into an insecure app hosted on a hacked server?i can't make up my mind
Bumpworthy thread.
>>1430625It looks like this anon is eating crow right now: >>1428658
>>1430626>No charges have been filed against Mr. Bolton.
>>1430656>All they wanted to do is have their own little counterpart to Trump getting raided, except the problem is no one else was retarded enough to steal government documents and not give them back when pressed.This started under biden when they stole emails from foreign spy agencies containing classified secrets Bolton leaked so he could write his book
>>1430561>which is worseHaving your thread removed
>>1430216>handing military secrets to the worldGetting captured soldiers/officers etc drunk was known to be quite the tongue-loosener in interrogations>HegsethAbsolut-ely
