Friday court filings offer additional insight into the basis for an FBI investigation into President Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton, discussing his book in detail while completely redacting an episode in which a foreign entity hacked his personal email.
The affidavit, initially filed with the courts on Aug. 21, details that agents believed Bolton might have violated the Espionage Act by mishandling national defense information.
The affidavit confirms earlier reporting that the Trump administration believes Bolton may have wrongly revealed classified information in drafting his memoir, “The Room Where It Happened.”
But the filing redacts in whole 10 pages of discussion related to the hack of Bolton’s AOL account by a foreign entity — another episode that may be conn