FBI搜查前国家安全顾问John Bolton住所与办公室 涉机密信息处理调查
2025年8月22日清晨，联邦调查局（FBI）人员持法院核准的搜查令，搜查了前国家安全顾问John Bolton位于马里兰州蒙哥马利县Bethesda的住所，以及其在首都华盛顿的办公室。这次搜查是一项刑事调查的一部分，调查方向是Bolton处理机密信息的方式。Bolton当天未被拘留，也未被控以任何罪名。
据美联社当日报道，住所搜查约在清晨7时开始，Bolton当时不在家中。搜查开始后，他被看到出现在其华盛顿办公室所在大楼的大堂内，与两名身穿印有FBI字样背心的人员交谈。这类搜查须经联邦法官核准，马里兰住所的搜查令由该州一名联邦治安法官签发。
美国司法部当天未就搜查公开置评。FBI局长Kash Patel当天上午在社交平台发文称，没有人凌驾于法律之上，FBI人员正在执行任务。司法部长Pam Bondi转发该帖并表示，美国的安全没有商量余地，正义必将被追求。
特朗普总统当天下午对记者表示，他对搜查一事事先不知情，并提到自己的住所也曾被搜查。Bolton于2018年4月至2019年9月担任特朗普第一任期的国家安全顾问，离任后成为特朗普的公开批评者，并曾就其回忆录与第一任特朗普政府发生法律争执。
截至当日，调查的更多细节未公开，Bolton本人当天未就搜查公开回应。此后公开的法庭文件确认，FBI在当天的搜查中扣押了相关材料。
FBI Searches Former National Security Adviser John Bolton's Home and Office in Classified Information Probe
On the morning of August 22, 2025, FBI agents executed court-authorized search warrants at the Bethesda, Maryland, home of former National Security Adviser John Bolton, in Montgomery County, and at his office in Washington, D.C. The searches were part of a criminal investigation into Bolton's handling of classified information. Bolton was not taken into custody that day and had not been charged with any crime.
The Associated Press reported that the search of the home began at about 7 a.m. and that Bolton was not at home at the time. After the search began, he was seen in the lobby of the Washington building where he keeps his office, speaking with two people wearing vests marked FBI. Searches of this kind require approval by a federal judge, and the warrant for the Maryland home was signed by a federal magistrate judge in Maryland.
The Justice Department offered no public comment on the searches that day. FBI Director Kash Patel posted on social media that morning that no one is above the law and that FBI agents were on a mission. Attorney General Pam Bondi shared the post, adding that America's safety is not negotiable and that justice will be pursued.
President Donald Trump told reporters that afternoon that he had not known about the search in advance, and noted that his own home had also been searched. Bolton served as national security adviser during Trump's first term, from April 2018 to September 2019. After leaving the post he became an outspoken critic of Trump, and he had fought the first Trump administration in court over his memoir.
No further details of the investigation were public as of that day, and Bolton did not publicly respond to the searches that day. Court filings made public later confirmed that FBI agents seized materials during the August 22 searches.
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图片来源：图：位于首都华盛顿的美国司法部总部大楼（Robert F. Kennedy 司法部大楼）临街全景。公共领域照片，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The U.S. Department of Justice headquarters (Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building) in Washington, D.C. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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