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On October 16, 2025, a federal grand jury in Maryland indicted former national security adviser John Bolton on 18 counts alleging mishandling of classified material — eight counts of unlawful transmission of national defense information and 10 counts of unlawful retention. The move is seismic and will dominate the national conversation, but hardworking Americans deserve straight answers about the facts and the timing of this prosecution.
Prosecutors say Bolton shared more than 1,000 pages of diary-like notes with relatives, used personal email and messaging accounts to transmit material, and stored classified documents at his Maryland home and Washington office — some reportedly marked top secret. The indictment also claims a cyber actor tied to Iran accessed a personal email account Bolton used, raising alarming national-security questions if true. These are serious allegations that must be tested in court, but they also raise questions about how classified material is handled across administrations.
Bolton’s lawyers insist the records are personal diaries and that the matter was known to the FBI as far back as 2021, arguing the entries were unclassified and long ago investigated. Bolton himself has pushed back, saying he never unlawfully shared or stored classified information, and points to the prior Justice Department scrutiny of his 2020 memoir as precedent. Americans should demand prosecutors show clearly how notes kept in a private diary suddenly become criminal, rather than rely on selective prosecutions that smell of political theater.
Make no mistake: this indictment lands amid a flurry of high-profile actions that have targeted figures across the political spectrum, and conservatives rightly worry about a weaponized Justice Department applied unevenly. President Trump has publicly pushed the DOJ to pursue perceived enemies, and critics warn that lawfare and retaliation have become government tools instead of justice. If the rule of law means anything to the millions of patriotic Americans who work and serve this nation, every step in this case must be transparent, nonpartisan, and bounded by real evidence — not headlines.
We should all want accountability when classified information is jeopardized, but accountability must be equal and consistent, not a cudgel for settling political scores. Patriots demand that the DOJ pursue real threats to our national security — foreign spies, leaks that endanger lives, and systemic intelligence failures — rather than engage in selective prosecutions that divide the country. Let the facts come out in court, let the process be fair, and let justice serve the nation instead of partisan agendas.
