Agents arrived at John Bolton's Bethesda home at approximately 7:00 a.m. for a search tied to a national security probe concerning classified documents. Such investigations can require significant legal resources, including hiring attorneys, extensive preparation, review of records, practice for testimony, and answering investigators' questions. Washington, D.C. attorneys are expensive, producing high financial costs and many billable hours. The process is mentally and emotionally taxing and generates considerable anxiety and personal upheaval even when the individual is not the target of a criminal investigation. Political probes can draw in associates and create reputational strain.
Oh, it can cost quite a lot. I mean, to get attorneys and to sit through the process of preparing, and going through all your records, and answering their questions, and then practicing, and then going in and doing it. I mean you rack up hours ,and Washington, D.C. attorneys ain't cheap, you know, as they say. So from that perspective, it is, it can be very taxing.
It's mentally taxing, there's a lot of anxiety that goes along with it. In my case, I wasn't being investigated for anything criminal and wasn't the target of any criminal investigation. I was merely talking to congressional committees. But it's still an emotionally taxing situation, particularly when you know, as I knew in my case, I had done nothing wrong, but I was certainly being dragged in as part of a political investigation. They hated my boss, Karl Rove, and they wanted to get to anybody who was connected to Karl Rove.
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