Former national security adviser John Bolton was charged in Maryland with storing top secret records at home and sharing diary-like notes containing classified information, according to an 18-count indictment. Prosecutors say operatives believed linked to Iran hacked his email in 2021 and accessed secrets he had shared. The case surfaced publicly after FBI searches of his Maryland home and Washington office in August, which yielded documents marked classified, confidential and secret, some tied to WMD, strategic communication and the U.S. mission to the U.N. The case was filed by a career prosecutor serving as U.S. attorney.

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