Overview

• FBI agents executed court-authorized searches at Bolton’s Bethesda, Maryland home and his Washington, D.C. office, seizing materials as part of a classified-documents investigation.
• Reporting describes alleged transfers and private-server emailing of sensitive information, including to his wife and daughter, though sources say family members are not targets.
• Officials say no charges have been filed and characterize the investigation as in its early stages, with details limited by sealed warrants and affidavits.
• Some investigators claim the Biden-era FBI shelved a related case opened in 2020, while critics call the revived probe potential political retribution under the current administration.
• Bolton published an op-ed after the searches criticizing President Trump’s Ukraine strategy and referenced the warrants executed at his home and office.