Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton has been charged with storing top secret records at home and sharing with relatives notes that contained classified information
John Bolton speaks at Harvard Kennedy School’s John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, Monday, Sept. 29, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
By ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN – Associated Press
Updated 14 minutes ago
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — John Bolton, who served as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser during his first term and later became a vocal critic, was charged Thursday with storing top secret records at home and sharing with relatives diary-like notes about his time in government that officials said contained classified information.
The 18-count indictment also suggests classified information was exposed when operatives believed linked to the Iranian regime hacked Bolton’s email account in 2021 and gained access to sensitive material he had shared. A Bolton representative told the FBI that his emails had been hacked, prosecutors say, but did not reveal that he had shared classified information through the account or that the hackers now had possession of government secrets.
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