Fbi Searches Home Of Former National Security Adviser John Bolton Reports Say: Live Updates

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WASHINGTON – The FBI was at former national security adviser John Bolton’s house in suburban Maryland, according to news reports.

Bolton, who served in President Donald Trump’s first term, has become a vocal critic of the administration’s foreign policy and called the president unfit to serve. Trump previously revoked Bolton's security detail and his security clearance after clashes over policy.

FBI agents searched Bolton’s home as part of a national security probe ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, according to the New York Post. CNN also reported the search.

“NO ONE is above the law,” Patel said in a social media post Aug. 22 after the search began. “@FBI agents on mission.”

Bolton didn’t mention the search in a social media post Aug. 22 but said he didn’t see “any progress” in Trump leading peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.

“Meanwhile, meetings will continue because Trump wants a Nobel Peace Prize, but I don't see these talks making any progress,” Bolton said.

Earlier, Bolton had told CNN after Trump met with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Aug. 15 that Putin "clearly won" the summit in Alaska.

“It’s far from over, but I’d say Putin achieved most of what he wanted,” Bolton said. “Trump achieved very little.”

Andrew McCabe, a former deputy director FBI, told CNN on Aug. 22 the search was "really stunning." McCabe said there were reasons to look at the search "with a jaundiced eye" because of what might have motivated the search warrant.

“I don’t think may people say this one coming," McCabe said. “There is this very fraught relationship between the two, and the President's history of going after people, using the level, the levers of power that he has access to, particularly the Department of Justice, to go after people he doesn't like."