by Ella Lee and Zach Schonfeld at The Hill
A federal grand jury indicted former national security adviser John Bolton on charges of transmitting and retaining national defense information, bringing another criminal case against a critic of President Trump.
Prosecutors allege that, beginning in April 2018 until at least August this year, Bolton “abused his position” as national security adviser to share more than a thousand pages of information about his daily activities in the role with two unauthorized individuals, both of whom were “related” to him and never held security clearances.
The information included details classified as top secret and related to the national defense and was sent to the individuals in “diary-like entries” through non-governmental messaging apps and email accounts, according to the 26-page indictment.
“At no point did Bolton have authorization to store or transmit the classified information that he sent to Individuals 1 and 2 via his personal electronic devices and accounts,” the charging papers read. “Nor did, at any time, individuals 1 and 2 have authorization to know or store the classified information that Bolton gave to them.”
In July 2021,…
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