The indictment includes 18 counts—eight for unlawful transmission and ten for unlawful retention of national defense information, some classified at the top secret level.
A federal grand jury indicted former Trump national security adviser John Bolton Thursday on 18 counts of illegally hoarding or sending sensitive information — leaving the longtime pillar of the Republican foreign policy establishment facing decades in prison.
The indictment in Greenbelt, Md., federal court alleges that Bolton transmitted classified national security documents through a personal AOL email account and knowingly sent secret materials to outside contacts while serving in the first Trump administration.
Prosecutors allege that Bolton, 76, used email and various messaging apps to send documents classified as high as “top secret” that revealed intelligence about future US attacks, foreign adversaries and international relations.
The former US ambassador to the United Nations also kept diary-like notes of his daily activities and assessments, more than 1,000 pages of which he shared with two relatives — believed to be his wife and daughter — who did not have security clearances and were not authorized to see the information Bolton shared.
In July 2021, the indictment claims, the information Bolton sent to his family was exposed when the AOL account was hacked by operatives linked to the Iranian government, which has targeted the former adviser for assassination since the death of high-ranking Gen. Qassem Soleimani in a US drone strike in January 2020.
An unidentified Bolton representative told the FBI his emails had been hacked, prosecutors say, but did not reveal that he had shared classified information through the AOL account or that the hackers now had possession of this information.
Bolton served as President Trump’s national security adviser from April 2018 until his firing in September 2019. Upon leaving office, he pledged that he did not have any classified documents or notes in his possession.
Bolton faces up to 10 years in prison on each count of the indictment.
BTW: While serving as President Trump’s National Security Adviser, crapweasel John Bolton was handed a classified memo detailing how former CIA Director John Brennan fabricated intelligence about Trump-Putin collusion. Despite receiving this information, Bolton did not brief President Trump on the memo’s contents. Instead, he stored the document in a National Security Council safe, because he believed the bullshit fabricated by Brennan.
Bolton, like the rest of the Deep State shitbags, belongs in prison.
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