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BREAKING: Disgraced Former NSA John Bolton Indicted by Grand Jury For Mishandling Classified Documents

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UPDATE: 04:20 PM – Elizabeth MacDonald from FOX Business Network tweeted out that John Bolton was just indicted.

Reporter Josh Gerstein reported that an indictment or indictments were returned to the court.

INDICTED!

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The Justice Department presented evidence to a federal grand jury in Maryland against former National Security Adviser John Bolton for allegedly transmitting highly classified materials through his private AOL email account during his 2018–2019 tenure.

The investigation centers on documents labeled Secret and Confidential related to weapons of mass destruction, as well as personal notes resembling a diary that may contain additional classified details.

Prosecutors argued that Bolton willfully removed, retained, or transmitted national defense information in violation of sections of the Espionage Act of 1917.

Politico reporter announced on X, “As we await a possible indictment of former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton related to classified info handling, 4 men appearing to be prosecutors and/or FBI agents just arrived at fed court in Greenbelt, Maryland and entered grand jury room.”

He added, “And now separately the top national security prosecutor in Maryland, Thomas Sullivan, arrives and goes into same grand jury room….”

Prosecutors are reportedly moving forward with charges under the Espionage Act, according to MSNBC.

Bolton, who has spent attacking Trump on CNN and in his memoir The Room Where It Happened, is accused of keeping notes, classified memos, and digital files that the National Security Council explicitly warned him to return.

Investigators allege he lied during his debriefing, claiming he had no notes from his White House tenure, only for the NSC to later discover otherwise.

The Biden Administration halted the investigation into Bolton, but FBI Director Kash Patel revived it and ordered the raid on the former NatSec Advisor’s home.

On August 22, 2025, FBI agents executed court-authorized searches of Bolton’s Maryland home and his Washington, D.C. office as part of a federal investigation into possible improper retention, transmission, or loss of classified information.

According to unsealed court documents, agents seized multiple devices, computers, tablets, iPads, flash drives, and cellphones, along with boxes of documents labeled “Trump I-IV” and a binder titled “statements and reflections to Allied Strikes.”

New documents released revealed that John Bolton stored classified information about WMDs and the United Nations.

“Categories of potentially classified records that the FBI reported finding at Bolton’s office included: travel memo documents with a “secret” label; confidential documents from the U.S. mission to the U.N.; confidential documents related to strategic communications; and classified documents related to weapons of mass destruction,” Politico reported.

The search warrant affidavit (partially redacted) references potential violations of the Espionage Act and statutes governing unauthorized transmission or retention of national defense information.

Read the affidavit here or below:

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