Biden Admin Advanced Bolton Probe Over Foreign-Intercepted Emails: Report [View all]

Source: Newsweek

Published Aug 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM EDT Updated Aug 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM EDT


The federal investigation into John Bolton, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, gained new momentum during the Biden administration after U.S. intelligence collected evidence suggesting he mishandled classified material, according to a report in The New York Times.

Citing people familiar with the matter, the Times said U.S. agencies obtained information from a foreign adversary's spy service, including emails that Bolton appeared to have sent on an unclassified system while in the Trump White House. The messages, reportedly containing sensitive material from classified documents, were allegedly sent to people close to Bolton who were helping him prepare his 2020 memoir, The Room Where It Happened. Newsweek has reached out to Bolton through his PAC, along with the Justice Department, via email on Wednesday night for comment.

Why It Matters

The revelations explain why FBI agents executed searches of Bolton's Maryland home and Washington office last week — a dramatic escalation in an inquiry that had long been viewed as dormant.

Prosecutors sought the warrants to determine if Bolton, a vocal Trump critic, possessed evidence corroborating the foreign spy service's cache, the Times reported. While no charges are pending, the Times said the FBI searches were aimed at verifying whether Bolton still holds documents matching the intercepted material, which would bolster the case.

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