Bolton Raid Instigated By Foreign Govt Hack Into His AOL Account, FBI Affidavit Says

The FBI has released the affidavit that was used to obtain a search warrant for former Trump national security adviser John Bolton’s home.

Agents swarmed Bolton’s home last month for what was called a “national security probe.”

During the raid, FBI Director Kash Patel tweeted, “NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission.”

“A lot of it is heavily redacted,” MSNBC’s Katy Tur noted of the affidavit.

Justice and intelligence correspondent Ken Dilanian explained, “There’s a whole section of that affidavit — I think it’s the most important section — that’s blacked out, under the heading, ‘Hack of John Bolton’s AOL account by a Foreign Government.'”

Dilanian continued:

What I understand from two sources, and what The New York Times has reported, is that the United States government obtained John Bolton’s emails, some of those emails from an adversarial foreign government, unnamed. And in that dump contained evidence that led to some concerns about his handling of classified information. And this happened during the Biden administration.

The Biden Justice Department reviewed this. They opted not to bring charges. They didn’t conduct a search. In part, I’m told there were concerns about the sensitivity of how they acquired that information and that, in fact, it’s quite damaging that the public has been told that they acquired these emails from that foreign government, because that foreign government now knows that the United States had access to their to their systems.

“We don’t know what the evidence is, but it was enough to convince two separate federal judges that there was probable cause to believe a crime had been committed and that the evidence was in John Bolton’s home, Dilanian said, adding that Bolton was never arrested or charged with any crime.

Tur tried to sum up Dilanian’s explanation, asking, “Just to be clear, we hacked into a foreign government that was hacking into John Bolton?”

“Absolutely, that’s right,” Dilanian answered.

Watch the clip above via MSNBC.