约翰·博尔顿因涉嫌处理机密信息不当被起诉
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约翰·博尔顿因涉嫌处理机密信息不当被起诉

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前国家安全顾问约翰·博尔顿因其在特朗普政府任职期间涉嫌处理机密信息不当,被控18项罪名。

前国家安全顾问约翰·博尔顿因其在特朗普政府任职期间涉嫌处理机密信息不当,已被马里兰州联邦大陪审团以18项罪名起诉。指控包括8项传输国家防务信息罪和10项非法保留此类信息罪,每项罪名若被定罪,最高可判处10年监禁。

起诉书称,博尔顿在2018年至2019年间,通过个人电子邮件账户(包括AOL和谷歌托管的账户)向两名未经授权的人员分享了超过一千页含有敏感国家防务信息的“日记式”条目。此外,博尔顿还被指控在其位于马里兰州贝塞斯达的住所打印并存储机密文件。

博尔顿的律师阿比·洛威尔表示,这些指控“多年前已被调查并解决”,并强调相关记录“已非机密,仅与其直系家属共享,且早在2021年联邦调查局就已知晓”。博尔顿本人则声称,这些指控是“一场针对其反对者的密集恐吓行动”,并表示将“为自己的合法行为辩护,揭露滥用权力的行为”。

此次起诉紧随对其他特朗普总统批评者的指控之后,包括前联邦调查局局长詹姆斯·科米和纽约州检察长莱蒂蒂娅·詹姆斯,两人均否认有任何不当行为。司法部长帕姆·邦迪就博尔顿案评论称:“任何滥用权力、危害国家安全的人都将被追究责任,没有人凌驾于法律之上。”

博尔顿自2018年4月至2019年9月任国家安全顾问,离职后一直是特朗普的公开批评者。在其2020年出版的回忆录《事发之地》中,博尔顿对特朗普形象描绘不佳,引发双方公开争执。

针对博尔顿的案件引发了关于前官员处理机密信息的质疑,以及此类起诉背后的潜在政治动机。博尔顿对所有指控均表示不认罪,预计将在法庭上积极抗辩。

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Former National Security Advisor John Bolton has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland on 18 counts related to the alleged mishandling of classified information during his tenure in the Trump administration.

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The charges include eight counts of transmitting national defense information and ten counts of unlawfully retaining such information, each carrying a potential sentence of up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

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The indictment alleges that Bolton shared over a thousand pages of 'diary-like' entries containing sensitive national defense information with two unauthorized individuals between 2018 and 2019.

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These entries were reportedly sent via personal email accounts, including those hosted by AOL and Google.

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Additionally, Bolton is accused of printing and storing classified documents at his residence in Bethesda, Maryland.

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Bolton's attorney, Abbe Lowell, stated that the allegations 'were investigated and resolved years ago' and emphasized that the records in question were 'unclassified, shared only with his immediate family, and known to the FBI as far back as 2021.'

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Bolton himself asserted that the charges are part of an 'intensive effort to intimidate his opponents' and expressed his intention to 'defend my lawful conduct and to expose his abuse of power.'

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This indictment follows recent charges against other prominent critics of President Trump, including former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Both have denied any wrongdoing.

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