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US Justice Department's top leaders are pressing for quick charges against John Bolton over possible Espionage Act violations, reports Reuters.
FBI searches found old classified materials in Bolton's offices, but Bolton denies wrongdoing, calling them routine records from his long government career.
FBI agents executing a court-authorized search of former national security adviser John Bolton’s Washington, D.C., office last month discovered documents marked as classified. According to descriptions in court filings the inventory suggested the seized records included references to weapons of mass destruction, U.S. diplomatic work at the United Nations, and the government’s strategic communications efforts, wrote Newsweek earlier in the week.
The discovery of classified documents in John Bolton’s office matters because it touches on the core question of whether senior national security officials are held to the same legal standards as others who handle sensitive material. The case highlights concerns about protecting national defense information, the consistency of Justice Department enforcement in a series of high-profile document probes, and the political fallout of scrutinizing a prominent Trump-era official who later became one of the president’s sharpest critics.
Bolton would be one of many apparent indictments the Trump administration is pursuing of corrupt government officials during his first administration, and under Obama, Biden.
