FBI agents executing a search warrant at former national security adviser John Bolton’s downtown Washington office last month turned up documents marked as classified, according to a court filing released Tuesday.
A description of the documents gathered in the Aug. 22 search suggested they included materials that referenced weapons of mass destruction, the U.S. mission to the United Nations and records related to the U.S. government’s strategic communications.
In Trump’s first term, Bolton faced a lawsuit claiming he included classified information in a book he wrote after leaving the administration. A federal judge warned publicly that the former White House official’s actions might have been criminal.
However, a Justice Department probe did not lead to charges and was eventually dropped under the Biden administration in 2021.
Joe Biden also faced a criminal inquiry for his own collection of classified documents at his Delaware home, only for special counsel Robert Hur to conclude a jury would be unlikely to convict him for the offense.