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Bolton investigation linked to overseas intelligence
NYT via Seattle Times ^ | 08 22 2025 | Julian E. Barnes

Posted on 08/22/2025 6:58:19 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

The information that provided the basis for the warrant to search John Bolton’s home Friday was based on intelligence collected overseas by the CIA, according to people who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing criminal investigation.

John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, provided Kash Patel, the FBI director, with limited access to the intelligence. It involved the mishandling of classified material by Bolton, the people said.

The search of the home and office of Bolton, who was national security adviser during President Donald Trump’s first term, was a major escalation of a long-running inquiry into whether he collected or leaked sensitive national security information, law enforcement officials said.

The nature of the intelligence collected overseas is not known. The FBI obtained the search warrant after presenting evidence to a federal judge. Bolton’s office declined to comment.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Ukraine
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1 posted on 08/22/2025 6:58:20 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen
Selling intel, it's Biden family the sequel.

Wouldn't surprise me if the FBI found child porn as well.

2 posted on 08/22/2025 7:04:02 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

and fat ass George Conway just so happen to show up at the same time and yeah George Conway looks like someone who fiddles around with lil boys


3 posted on 08/22/2025 7:14:14 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: yesthatjallen

Bolton was cashing in. Like so many others. No honor among thieves. Maybe he’ll sing for leniency and implicate others.


4 posted on 08/22/2025 7:44:39 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: yesthatjallen

Bolton was cashing in. Like so many others. No honor among thieves. Maybe he’ll sing for leniency and implicate others.


5 posted on 08/22/2025 7:44:39 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: yesthatjallen
It wouldn't surprise at all if our beloved Ukraine is involved.

6 posted on 08/22/2025 7:45:53 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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7 posted on 08/22/2025 7:59:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: dragnet2

Betcha Bolton was selling or giving intel to his old pals around the world, thinking it wouldn’t come back to bite him in the ass like leaking to a US-based reporter might. There’s probably more than enough scum and villany in his address book to fill the Mos Eisley cantina.


8 posted on 08/22/2025 8:20:54 PM PDT by bigbob (If thou doth eff around, thou wilt findeth out)
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9 posted on 08/22/2025 8:38:53 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: yesthatjallen

“ according to people who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing criminal investigation.”

Typical unnamed NYTimes article.

Either made up or there’s a deep state mole flapping his mouth.


10 posted on 08/22/2025 9:21:28 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: yesthatjallen

Let me guess... regarding $$$ transfers thru Ukraine.


11 posted on 08/22/2025 10:10:40 PM PDT by Zathras
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Maybe Quatar.

They seem to fund all kinds of Western Elites, and here he is just wandering around.

https://x.com/YDanasmithdutra/status/1959081495835836919


12 posted on 08/23/2025 12:58:21 AM PDT by Reverend Wright (Anschluss now !)
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To: yesthatjallen

I’m going to guess something to do with the Ukraine, like convincing Zelensky to keep fighting until Trump is out of office or until the other politicians manage to tame Trump.


13 posted on 08/23/2025 1:59:30 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimat.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

If true, then the conspiracy against our people is so deeply entrenched then we MUST put these people in jail.

Makes sense. A disgruntled Bolton, gets back at Trump by undermining him with intelligence sent to our enemies.

No doubt, Brennan was doing it too,

Makes me sick.


14 posted on 08/23/2025 3:04:40 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: ifinnegan

Or one of the good guys leaking just enough to make you wonder.

The media sure is running to his defense.


15 posted on 08/23/2025 3:06:20 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: yesthatjallen

It was fun watching the “raids”, which were half-assed and pitiful. But we have to fact that NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO HIM.

AG Barbie is good at bluster (”PUT ‘EM UP!!”) and showmanship, but that’s where it ends.


16 posted on 08/23/2025 3:10:04 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

“and fat ass George Conway just so happen to show up at the same time”

It was suggested that some TDS insider at DOJ/FBI tipped him off beforehand. Otherwise, he couldn’t have made the trip from home to be there in time to grandstand.

Oh, and Kellyanne “did it” with him. At least three times.


17 posted on 08/23/2025 3:12:30 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: yesthatjallen

“ .[204] In 2018, the White House reported that Bolton’s total income for 2017 had been $2.2 million which included $569,000 from Fox News and $747,000 in speaking fees from, among others, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation (a Ukrainian NGO), Deutsche Bank, and HSBC.”

Pinchuk also gave millions to Hillary.


18 posted on 08/23/2025 3:23:10 AM PDT by DainBramage
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To: yesthatjallen

I’ve heard that the investigation started during Trump’s first term and was shut down when Biden stole the election. Now that Trump is back, the investigation came back to life.


19 posted on 08/23/2025 3:41:24 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Kamala defines herself in just 4 words..."Nothing comes to mind.")
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To: yesthatjallen

Come on, it was a Nigerian Prince and his email stated he only needed the intelligence to open his bank account...


20 posted on 08/23/2025 7:36:01 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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