FBI agents seized several documents they described as “secret,” “confidential” or “classified” during the search of former national security adviser John Bolton’s downtown Washington office last month, according to newly unsealed court records.
The items include documents pertaining to weapons of mass destruction, U.S. interests at the United Nations, and strategic government communications, investigators said in a catalogued list of what was collected during the search.
The inventory, unsealed by a federal magistrate judge in Maryland, was filed after agents descended upon Mr. Bolton’s Bethesda, Md., home and office Aug. 22 as part of an investigation into whether he illegally kept classified documents that came into his possession through his role in President Donald Trump’s first term