We finally have an idea why John Bolton is in hot water — and the factor that could bring things to a boil



John Bolton, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, is reportedly under investigation for allegedly mishandling classified information. If held to his own standard, then his days as a free man might be numbered.

Nearly a year after the FBI's 2022 raid of Trump's Palm Beach residence, Jack Smith — the special counsel illegally appointed by Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland — charged Trump with supposedly mishandling classified information.

'Bolton likely jeopardized national security by disclosing classified information in violation of his nondisclosure agreements.'

Bolton was among those who rushed to attack the president, happily touring liberal newsrooms with smears and speculation. He told Biden press secretary turned MSNBC talking head Jen Psaki, for instance, that he was "pretty confident" the allegations in the Trump indictment were true.

While admittedly oblivious to the contents of the documents that Trump supposedly retained, Bolton told CNN, "They did go to absolute, the most important secrets that the United States has, directly affecting national security, directly affecting the lives and safety of our service members and our civilian population. If he has anything like what … the indictment alleges, and of course the government will have to prove it, then he has committed very serious crimes."

"This really is a rifle shot," Bolton said in reference to the indictment, "and I think it should be the end of Donald Trump’s political career."

While Trump's case was ultimately dismissed, Bolton's troubles with the law are apparently beginning to snowball.

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FBI conducts authorized search of Bolton's house on Aug. 22. Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images

The FBI raided Bolton's home in Bethesda, Maryland, on the morning of Aug. 22 on FBI Director Kash Patel's orders. Later in the day, federal agents searched Bolton's Washington, D.C., office.

A top U.S. official told the New York Post that the raid was in connection with a resurrected probe involving Bolton's alleged use of a private email server to send classified national security documents to family members from his work desk prior to his September 2019 dismissal by Trump.

The official told the Post, "While Bolton was a national security adviser, he was literally stealing classified information, utilizing his family as a cutout."

'Washed up Creepster John Bolton is a lowlife who should be in jail.'

In Trump's first term, the Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation into whether Bolton disclosed classified information in his book, "The Room Where It Happened," after first proving unable to stop the publication of the book with a lawsuit.

The Trump administration failed to secure an injunction because Bolton's book had already made its way into the hands of booksellers.

"Bolton likely jeopardized national security by disclosing classified information in violation of his nondisclosure agreements," wrote U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth. "The government sufficiently alleges that Bolton disclosed information without confirming that the information was unclassified."

Lamberth noted further that while "Bolton may indeed have caused the country irreparable harm," "with hundreds of thousands of copies around the globe — many in newsrooms — the damage is done."

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Trump noted in June 2020, "Washed up Creepster John Bolton is a lowlife who should be in jail, money seized, for disseminating, for profit, highly Classified information."

The case was referred to the DOJ by then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, but the resulting investigation was torpedoed by President Joe Biden's administration for "political reasons," according a top U.S. official.

The probe has been reopened — and it appears that the stakes are higher than previously acknowledged, as Bolton's alleged carelessness was exploited by a foreign regime.

Individuals said to be familiar with the investigation but speaking on the condition of anonymity recently told the New York Times that the U.S. gathered data from an adversarial country's spy service and found emails containing sensitive information that Bolton allegedly sent to individuals "close to him" on an unclassified system while still working for the Trump administration.

It is presently unclear which adversarial nation obtained the emails.

The individuals familiar with the probe indicated that the emails contained information apparently taken from classified documents Bolton had seen while serving as Trump's national security adviser.

Bolton is evidently taking the investigation seriously, having reportedly had discussions with Abbe Lowell, the high-profile criminal defense attorney who has represented pardoned felon Hunter Biden, New York state Attorney General Letitia James, and ex-Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook.

The White House referred Blaze News to the DOJ for comment, which declined to comment when pressed by the Times. Bolton also reportedly declined to comment.

On his first day back in office, Trump revoked any security clearances Bolton might have held.

Trump noted that the publication of Bolton's memoir "created a grave risk that classified material was publicly exposed" and "undermined the ability of future presidents to request and obtain candid advice on matters of national security from their staff."

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Libs previously silent on Dem lawfare decry Trump terminating 'dishonest' law firms' security clearances



Liberals previously silent about the lawfare waged against President Donald Trump by the Biden administration, and apparently unbothered by Democratic operatives' years-long campaign to professionally crush attorneys who supported Trump, are now clutching pearls over the Republican president's termination of special privileges for a pair of adversarial law firms.

Last month, Trump signed a memorandum to suspend security clearances for members of the law firm Covington & Burling who helped Jack Smith, the former special counsel whose unsuccessful prosecutions against Trump the president has since characterized as "part of the prior administration's unprecedented weaponization of prosecutorial power to upend the democratic process."

Trump noted in the order that "individuals who hold government-issued security clearances bear a responsibility to uphold impartiality and the national interest," then insinuated that the firm's provision of $140,000 in free legal services to Smith was demonstrative of an extra-professional and partisan interest in the special counsel's political mission.

Days later, Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and other relevant agency heads to suspend any active security clearances held by individuals at the Democratic-aligned firm Perkins Coie and ordered the Office of Management and Budget to identify federal properties and assets made available to Perkins Coie so that agency heads can "expeditiously cease such provision."

In his March 6 order, Trump also set the stage for the termination of any governmental contracts with Perkins Coie, citing the need to spare taxpayers from subsidizing "racial discrimination, falsified documents designed to weaponize the Government against candidates for office, and anti-democratic election changes that invite fraud and distrust."

The two firms' deprivation of special privileges prompted fellow travelers to cry foul.

'This is just jaw-dropping.'

The Seattle chapter of the leftist National Lawyers Guild, once called the "foremost legal bulwark of the Communist Party," denounced Trump's revocation of Perkins Coie's security clearances, stating that the decision "exemplifies his complete disregard for the rule of law and his contempt for core American democratic values."

The American College of Trial Lawyers claimed in a statement that Trump's orders "threaten lawyers and law firms merely for advocating for positions that the administration disfavors," adding that "lawyers throughout the country should unite in condemning these actions in the strongest possible terms."

Neither the NLG nor the ACTL appear to have similarly condemned the Democratic-aligned 65 Project's apparent attempts to deprive political opponents of effective legal representation and to disbar attorneys who threatened Democratic control with election-fraud lawsuits.

Numerous liberal scholars have jumped on the concern-monger bandwagon, characterizing the big firms' loss of special privileges as potentially unconstitutional.

"This is just jaw-dropping," Laurence Tribe, a constitutional scholar at Harvard Law School and vociferous Trump critic, told Vox. "This represents sort of a great escalation of a trend that was already evident."

'They were very dishonest people.'

Some liberal critics suggested that the perceived suspension of security clearances on the basis of which clients the firms represented might constitute viewpoint discrimination.

Tribe suggested Perkins Coie's loss of security clearances might also violate the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel, which is "gravely endangered if the executive branch can brand and ostracize a particular group of lawyers and strip them of the security clearances, without which they could not represent a number of the people that the administration either has gone after or has indicated an intention to go after."

Ellen Podgor, a Stetson University law professor, suggested to CNN that by taking away the adversarial firm's access to classified information and federal buildings, "you're taking away the ability of an attorney to act in their role as a lawyer."

Legal experts made clear to Reuters that the Trump administration is within its rights to grant and rescind security clearances and federal contracts.

University of Colorado Law School professor Maryam Jamshidi suggested that challenging the termination of security clearances, which Perkins Coie has said it will do, would be legally difficult.

Trump appears eager to review and possibly tear up additional firms' security clearances and federal contracts.

"We have a lot of law firms that we're going to be going after because they were very dishonest people," Trump told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo Sunday. "They were very, very dishonest. I could go point after point after point. And it was so bad for our country. And we have a lot of law firms we're going after."

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'Patriot Act 2.0' — Lindsey Graham's DANGEROUS plan after Trump shooting



FBI whistleblower Steve Friend has a warning in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Trump — and it’s not for former President Trump.

“There was an exchange between deputy director Paul Abbate and Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, where to the layperson it seems reasonable the FBI wants to open up all avenues, remove the blindfold, have no blinders on, consider the fact that this could be assassination, this could be domestic terrorism,” Friend tells Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight.”

However, to the non-layperson — this could mean something more sinister.

“When you designate something as a domestic terrorist investigation, that enables you to make it classified, and when you have a classification code on there, you have to have a need to know in a security clearance,” Friend explains.

Because of that, the FBI can withhold information.

“The American people are not going to have the transparency that we ultimately need for this investigation,” he says.

While the FBI’s actions are concerning, that’s not Savage’s only concern.

“Lindsey Graham had a very concerning solution for the issues with the investigation,” Savage tells Friend.

“We have encrypted apps of an assassin, a murderer, and we can’t get into them all these days after,” Graham said. “That needs to be fixed folks. I’m all for privacy, but to a point.”

“What if, in the future, somebody’s using these apps to communicate with a foreign power. I think we need to know these things. We need to know them in real time,” he added.

Friend says that Graham’s suggestion would effectively render the Fourth Amendment a “dead letter, at that point.”

Graham’s use of the phrase “real time” is also concerning.

“Real time, which means continually monitoring it,” Friend explains.

“This is the government assuming that a tool will be used for ill, when it is just a tool. Because we don’t trust the government in this country. The job of law enforcement is not supposed to be easy. You’re supposed to have reasonable suspicion, probable cause, the burden is supposed to be there,” he adds.


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FBI agents PLANTED evidence at Trump Mar-a-Lago raid; judge postpones trial indefinitely



It doesn’t matter whether you hate or love Donald Trump. What’s being done to the former president by our government should disturb every single American.

Reports have revealed that FBI agents placed “cover sheets” onto allegedly classified documents found during its raid of Mar-a-Lago in order to make the photo they took of the documents far scarier.

The cover sheets indicated the highest levels of secrecy — and without question, the media then fell right in line and used the doctored evidence to slam Trump.

“This is never done,” Glenn Beck says, shocked.

Now, the federal judge presiding over Trump’s classified documents trial has delayed the trial indefinitely.

“They have postponed the document trial because they’ve said, ‘There are too many things here that don’t add up, there are too many things the FBI did that they never did nor should they have ever thought of doing,’” Glenn says, adding, “That is at best propaganda.”

Meanwhile, our envoy to Iran, Robert Malley, lost his top secret security clearance. According to whistleblowers, he allegedly transferred classified documents to his personal email account, downloaded the documents to his personal cell phone, and someone received them.

It’s now believed that a hostile cyber actor was able to gain access to those documents via his email and phone and obtained top secret information.

“These allegations have a substantial impact on our national security, and people should be held accountable, swiftly and strongly. But we’re not doing anything about him, we just downgraded his security clearance,” Glenn says.

“Are you kidding me? This guy is a spy for the Iranians. You’re trying Donald Trump, and you are using propaganda techniques to hype it up, and this guy, you won’t even tell the American people what we did,” he adds.




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The FBI arrested a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard last week after the young man was connected to a leak of dozens of highly classified documents.

The documents contained national security secrets, and the accused leaker, Jack Teixeira, had apparently been sending these documents to his online gaming group chat.

Jason Buttrill, head of research for Glenn Beck, is on the show to discuss. Beck asks Buttrill how it was possible that a 21-year-old had access to these highly classified documents.

Buttrill says, “He pulled this information off of something called JWICS. That stands for Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System.” He adds, “I don’t think we’re getting the truth, the full story here, at all.”

Glenn asks him how this could have been done by a kid.

Buttrill says the most likely scenario is that “someone else’s email was up; I’m just theorizing here.” He says it’s only a possibility if that person was “completely incompetent.”

“Or,” he says, “someone could have sent him an ICE email that he should not have received. That could have been possible as well.”

“So,” Beck answers, “when they arrest him and they’re, you know, printing him as ‘the guy,’ is there any way for that to be true — that he is the only one involved in this — as far as the getting the information.”

Buttrill says “it’s possible,” but that “it needs to be looked into.”

He asks, “Did the media figure this out before the feds did? That’s what it felt like.”

Beck responds, “That’s weird, because that would be internal sources. And we know what internal sources have fed us through the media before: Nothing but lies.”


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