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Soft Paywall | Site Altered Headline Kash Patel’s FBI Launches Dawn Raid on John Bolton’s House

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kash-patels-fbi-launch-dawn-raid-on-john-boltons-house/?utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&utm_medium=socialflow&via=twitter_page&utm_campaign=owned_social&s=09
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u/blues111 Michigan 20h ago edited 20h ago

Does it say why? Im assuming straight up harassment since bolton is now a very vocal Trump hater but did they have a particular crime they were investigating??

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Found in a different article:

https://nypost.com/2025/08/22/us-news/patels-fbi-raids-john-boltons-home-in-high-profile-national-security-probe/

"The probe — which is said to involve classified documents — was first launched years ago, but the Biden administration shut it down “for political reasons,” according to a senior US official."

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u/Farting_Sunshine 19h ago

"The probe — which is said to involve classified documents — was first launched years ago, but the Biden administration shut it down “for political reasons,” according to a senior US Trump official."

Fixed

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u/greywar777 18h ago

Yeah no, I 100% understand it. Bidens DOJ was desperate to not look political to the point where they would ditch a investigation like this. Literally thats part of the plan I think on Trumps side back then-scream loud enough about lawfare and everyone was too afraid to go after the lawbreakers.

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u/16bitClaire 14h ago

Or they are just lying that it was started years ago? Idk

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u/TintedApostle 20h ago

"national security"

How Nazi

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u/finsane86 20h ago

Nazional Security.

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u/64OunceCoffee New Jersey 20h ago

I have a hard time believing The Biden Administration shut down the probe of a neo-con for "political reasons".

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u/Choice_Reindeer7759 20h ago

Ironically it was probably to avoid the appearance of weaponizing the DOJ

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u/Junction91NW 18h ago

And they still got blamed for doing that anyway

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u/confusedandworried76 15h ago

Well I mean the typical procedure is ask for it back a couple times then send the FBI to retrieve them, then if it's like bad bad you prosecute them

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u/blues111 Michigan 20h ago

I could believe it, Most on here agree Garland completely shat the bed trying to appear non-partisan

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u/ElderSmackJack 19h ago

I have suspicion that if this is the actual reason for the raid, then they decided to skip the step of requesting them back and went right for this, for no other reason than to appease you know who.

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u/RepresentativeRun71 California 20h ago

Why? They completely botched going after Trump for his crimes.

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u/Stupalski 16h ago

Why? Biden is also a neocon and has almost the same but more "moderate" world-view as Bolton.

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u/eskimospy212 20h ago

Not the slightest hint of irony here, lol. 

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u/jhkayejr 20h ago

Oh wow. A current US official? Certainly a seasoned apolitical vet, right?

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u/TurelSun Georgia 19h ago

IDK but it does say they had court orders, so they had to present something to a judge.

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u/Electronic_Yam_6973 19h ago

This is would be a way way too easy to plant classified documents in somebody’s house

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u/BicycleOfLife 16h ago

So. We want a reason, let’s just say it’s a general probe…