"Federal prosecutors are expected to ask a grand jury on Thursday afternoon to indict John Bolton, the former national security adviser in Donald Trump's first term, according to Bloomberg and Reuters. Details of what prosecutors in the US attorney's office in Maryland will seek remains unknown, but previous case activity, including the search warrant for Bolton's home, has pointed at charges related to mishandling classified information."
"The potential indictment against Bolton comes at a particularly fraught moment for the justice department, which has been rocked by extraordinary pressure from Trump to expand a vendetta campaign to pursue criminal cases against his political enemies. In recent weeks, Lindsey Halligan, Trump's handpicked US attorney in Virginia, obtained indictments against the former FBI director James Comey and the New York state attorney general, Letitia James, over the objections of career prosecutors."
"Part of the criminal investigation into Bolton has focused on what resembled diary entries and private notes he made for himself on an AOL email account and whether they contained classified information, according to people familiar with the matter. Lowell said that documents with classified markings retrieved from Bolton's phone by the FBI were decades old. Bolton, a longtime federal government official with a top secret clearance who was UN ambassador before serving as Trump's national security adviser from 2018 to 2019,"
Federal prosecutors plan to ask a grand jury to indict John Bolton on charges likely related to mishandling classified information, though specific allegations remain undisclosed. Bolton's lawyer asserts he did nothing inappropriate with classified records. The Justice Department is under intense pressure from former President Trump to pursue criminal cases against political opponents, and recent indictments by Trump-aligned prosecutors proceeded over career prosecutors' objections. Investigators examined diary-like entries and private notes on an AOL email account and documents recovered from Bolton's phone, some bearing classified markings described as decades old. Bolton served as UN ambassador and Trump's national security adviser from 2018 to 2019 and is known for diligent note-taking.
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