Former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton, who served under Donald Trump, has been charged with storing and sharing classified documents from his time in government. According to the 18-count indictment filed in Maryland, Bolton kept top-secret materials at his home and shared over 1,000 pages of sensitive notes with family members. Prosecutors also allege Iranian-linked hackers accessed classified information from his hacked email in 2021.
Bolton’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said the charges relate to “personal diaries” long known to the FBI, denying any wrongdoing.
The case comes amid recent indictments of James Comey and Letitia James, both of whom deny separate charges. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Bolton indictment shows “no one is above the law.”
Bolton, a longtime Republican foreign policy figure, previously faced controversy over his 2020 memoir “The Room Where It Happened,” which the Trump administration claimed contained classified material.
