As part of a high-profile national security probe, the agents of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Friday raided the Maryland home of John Bolton, a former US ambassador to the United Nations and former White House national security advisor, the New York Post reported.
An official of the Trump administration corroborated that the raid was ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, who later posted on X, saying, “NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission”.
NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) August 22, 2025
According to the New York Post, the FBI agents busted into Bolton’s house in Bethesda, Maryland, at 7 am.
The probe centres around Bolton’s handling of classified information, particularly in relation to his 2020 memoir, “The Room Where it Happened,” which Trump had attempted to block due to allegations of revealing national secrets and breaching a non-disclosure agreement signed during his tenure. Despite Trump’s efforts, the book was published.
Bolton’s first-term Justice Department opened an inquiry into the book in September 2020, as per the New York Post.
The former Trump advisor has been at odds with his old boss since, regularly appearing on cable news criticising the president’s national security and foreign policy.
It comes a day after Patel revealed former FBI Director James Comey had authorised leaks of classified documents “while misleading Congress” just before the 2016 elections.
Patel has pledged to rid the federal government of corruption and expose cover-ups.
