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前国家安全顾问约翰·博尔顿因处理机密信息不当被起诉
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前国家安全顾问约翰·博尔顿因处理机密信息不当被起诉，指控包括在其住所存放绝密文件及与亲属分享敏感笔记。
前国家安全顾问约翰·博尔顿因处理机密信息不当被起诉。起诉书指控博尔顿在其住所存放绝密文件，并与亲属分享有关其政府任期的敏感日记式笔记。
这份包含18项指控的起诉书还指出，2021年疑似与伊朗政权有关的行动人员入侵了博尔顿的电子邮件账户，获取了他所分享的机密信息，导致机密信息暴露。
对博尔顿处理机密信息的调查已持续数年。今年8月，联邦调查局特工搜查了他位于马里兰的住所和华盛顿特区的办公室，查获了多份标有“机密”、“保密”和“秘密”的文件。其中一些文件涉及大规模杀伤性武器和国家战略通信。
博尔顿的律师阿比·洛威尔表示，许多被查获的文件年代久远，且已作为博尔顿2020年出版的《事件发生的房间》一书的出版前审查的一部分获得批准。
此次起诉紧随近期对其他知名人士的指控之后，包括前联邦调查局局长詹姆斯·科米和纽约州总检察长莱蒂西亚·詹姆斯。两人均否认有不当行为。
博尔顿曾于2018年4月至2019年9月担任国家安全顾问。此后，他成为前总统唐纳德·特朗普的公开批评者，尤其是在其2020年回忆录中，将特朗普描绘为对外交政策事务缺乏了解。
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Former National Security Adviser John Bolton has been indicted on charges of mishandling classified information.
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The indictment alleges that Bolton stored top-secret records at his residence and shared sensitive, diary-like notes about his government tenure with relatives.
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The 18-count indictment also suggests that classified information was exposed when operatives believed to be linked to the Iranian regime hacked Bolton's email account in 2021, gaining access to secrets he had shared.
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In August, FBI agents searched his Maryland home and Washington, D.C., office, seizing multiple documents labeled 'classified,' 'confidential,' and 'secret.'
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Bolton's attorney, Abbe Lowell, has stated that many of the documents seized were decades old and had been approved as part of a pre-publication review for Bolton's 2020 book, 'The Room Where It Happened.'
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This indictment follows recent charges against other prominent figures, including former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
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Bolton served as National Security Adviser from April 2018 until his departure in September 2019.
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