The FBI raided former national security adviser John Bolton ’s home early Friday morning.
Agents conducted the operation at Bolton’s Maryland residence as part of a high-profile national security investigation ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, the Washington Examiner confirmed. The inquiry is believed to be about classified information Bolton was accused of illegally leaking in his 2020 book, The Room Where it Happened.
Bolton was an aide to Trump in his first presidential term and has become critical of his foreign policy stance, including over his work to negotiate peace deals to end the Ukraine-Russia war and hostilities in Iran. The war hawk was Trump's national security adviser but was fired in 2019 after numerous foreign policy disagreements, including over the president’s