Overview

• Agents arrived around 7 a.m. ET at Bolton’s Bethesda residence for a national security investigation seeking classified records, NBC News confirmed with an FBI statement.
• A federal magistrate judge in Maryland approved the warrant for the search, according to ABC News reporting cited by Axios.
• FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X, “NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission,” shortly after the operation began.
• Bolton was not detained or charged following the search, and reports differ on whether he was at the home during the operation.
• The Justice Department had opened a criminal inquiry into Bolton’s book in 2020 before dropping it in 2021, and Trump earlier this year revoked Bolton’s security clearance and Secret Service detail.