FBI agents executed a search of John Bolton's Maryland home as part of a reported national security investigation, and media observed agents removing boxes of documents. Critics linked the raid to Bolton's public criticism of former President Trump and his foreign policy positions, including Ukraine negotiations. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe criticized FBI Director Kash Patel for posting on X about the raid, calling the post unprecedented and potentially grandstanding. McCabe warned that highlighting this operation, rather than routine agent missions, could draw attention to sensitive law enforcement activity and heighten risks for agents.
with respect to the director's social media posting, I mean, it's yet another example of, in my opinion, Kash Patel failing to live up to the example of his predecessors, McCabe said in reaction. This is not the kind of thing that any FBI director has ever done. FBI directors don't gratuitously point towards search warrants and the people who are the targets of those warrants in any sort of way that could possibly be interpreted as grandstanding and nonsensical, as this one certainly suggests.
He further argued Patel's focus on this case over others has clear implications. I'd also point out that Kash Patel's agents are out on mission every day, all over this country, all over the world, in fact, doing the FBI's work. You don't see him posting quite as often about that. So I think the implication here is pretty clear. He wanted to draw attention to this sensitive law enforcement activity at
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