Overview

• FBI agents searched John Bolton’s Maryland home and his Washington, D.C., office on Friday in a national security investigation.
• The Justice Department says the inquiry concerns Bolton’s handling of classified information, reportedly tied to his 2020 book The Room Where It Happened.
• Bolton was not detained or charged following the searches, according to reporting.
• Sen. Adam Schiff called the action “clearly retribution,” ABC’s Jonathan Karl framed it as targeting of a Trump critic, and former CIA Director Leon Panetta also suggested Bolton was singled out.
• The Washington Examiner reported that the operation appears to revive an earlier review of Bolton’s book and attributed the move to FBI Director Kash Patel, a detail it presented as its reporting.