JOHN BOLTON INDICTED ON 18 COUNTS UNDER THE ESPIONAGE ACT FOR SERIAL MISHANDLING OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION

John Bolton is a very, very serious person who is very, very proper in his handling of classified information, unlike that demonic parvenu Trump.

What kind of ur-Boomer uses an AOL email? And for sending classified information?

Bolton is accused of using his private AOL email account to transmitclassified information and record diary-like notes of his daily activities and assessments throughout his time in President Trump's first administration, sources told The Post in August.

The account was hacked by an unidentified foreign entity at some point, according to a probable cause warrant unsealed last month -- meaning some of the secret information may have ended up in the hands of foreign governments or other bad actors.

Per Greg Price's screen shot of the grand jury information, the "unidentified" foreign country is identified, and it's Iran.

The warrant redacted all other information related to the hack.

Investigators also found classified information during their raids, with agents confiscating documents related to weapons of mass destruction, the US mission to the United Nations, government strategic communications and secret travel memos, according to court records.

Even if Bolton had no intention of releasing the information, he could be held liable if sensitive documents were left lying around where others could get to it -- a legal provision that applies to his personal email account as well.

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Upon his dismissal by Trump in September 2019 after 17 months as national security adviser, Bolton told officials that he "did not have any notes or other records from his government service," according to court documents.

The National Security Council began to suspect that was untrue upon receiving a manuscript of Bolton's 2020 book, "The Room Where it Happened," which the first Trump administration claimed included classified information.

"As written, the manuscript is very detailed, suggesting that it was likely produced from notes written by your client during his service at the White House," then-NSC senior director for records, access and information Ellen J. Knight said in a letter to Bolton's attorneys.

CNN reports the sad news: This buffoon and circus clown has been indicted on 18 counts.

John Bolton, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser-turned-adversary, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland.

He now faces 18 charges: eight counts of transmission of national defense information and 10 counts of retention of national defense information.

Prosecutors wrote in the indictment that during the time he was national security adviser to Trump, Bolton shared "more than a thousand pages of information about his day-to-day activities" with two unauthorized individuals. Both of those people were related to Bolton and didn't have the authority to access classified information, prosecutors said.

Print-outs of "diary" entries were also found in Bolton's home, according to the indictment.

Bolton is expected to surrender himself, as soon as Friday, to authorities at federal court in Greenbelt. His case was assigned to Judge Theodore D. Chuang, who was appointed to the bench by President Barack Obama in 2014.

"The FBI's investigation revealed that John Bolton allegedly transmitted top secret information using personal online accounts and retained said documents in his house in direct violation of federal law," FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement. "The case was based on meticulous work from dedicated career professionals at the FBI who followed the facts without fear or favor. Weaponization of justice will not be tolerated, and this FBI will stop at nothing to bring to justice anyone who threatens our national security."

MSNBC is Sad!

John Bolton has been keen on an exacting and merciless punishment for mishandling of classified information.

As applied to Trump, I mean.

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