"We start with the news that the justice department has filed federal charges against John Bolton, the former national security adviser to Donald Trump who turned into one of his biggest critics, accusing him of transmitting and retaining highly classified information under the Espionage Act. The 18-count indictment was handed up by a grand jury in federal district court in Maryland on Thursday."
"While Bolton parted on sour terms from the White House, the criminal investigation gained momentum during the Biden administration over disclosures that troubled the US intelligence community. The justice department pursues Espionage Act cases in the event of so-called aggregating factors: willful mishandling of classified information, vast quantities of classified information to support an inference of misconduct, disloyalty to the US and obstruction."
The justice department filed an 18-count federal indictment against John Bolton, accusing him of transmitting and retaining highly classified information under the Espionage Act. A grand jury in Maryland handed up the charges, alleging Bolton sent diary entries and detailed notes about day-to-day activities as national security adviser to two unnamed individuals. Investigators say Bolton handwrote notes on yellow notepads, later rewrote them in a word-processing document, and used non-governmental personal email and messaging accounts to send them. The indictment is the third recent federal criminal charge involving a former Trump critic. Trump said he was unaware of the charges and called Bolton a bad guy.
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