While working as NSA, Bolton transmitted diary-like entries to family members that included national defense and classified information.
He did so via commercial message apps and his AOL and Gmail accounts.
Between Sept 2019 and July 2021, Iran hacked Bolton's personal email account and accessed the classified and national defense information he had put in it.
Bolton alerted the US Gov't to the hack, but did not inform them of the classified and national defense information that was on it.
On a regular basis, Bolton sent "diary" entries via unsecured applications to two family members which described his "day-to-day activities as the National Security Advisor."
These "diary" entries contained TOP SECRET/SCI-level national defense information.
Just complete disregard for proper handling of classified information.
"Do we get a diary today?"
He was writing his memoir day-to-day while he was serving as the NSA.
He'd send chunks of it, the "diary" entries, to two family members for them to edit and correct.
As soon as he was fired, he was ready to talk to book publishers.
What a scumbag.
Bolton violated the settlement agreement.
Oh, hypocrisy.
Forfeiture
Is DOJ going to relieve Bolton of all of the money that memoir made him?
I hope so!!
Iran.
Who for years were trying to kill Bolton and other members of the first Trump admin.
"The United States gathered data from an adversarial country’s spy service..."
So we found the classified material were in the possession of Iran...
I wonder if that was developed from the Asif Merchant case?
Merchant came to the U.S. to recruit hitmen assassinate U.S. officials.
And it's highly likely that Bolton was on his list.
So did the FBI learn of Iran's possession of the classified material in Bolton's emails from the devices they seized from Merchant?
I don't know. Could be.
Crazy to think about Iran wanting to kill him, plotting it, sending people to the U.S. to kill him, and also having access to his email and extracting so much info from that.
Not just the classified stuff, but the pattern of life details they could get.
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