Once again, the narratives of the professional fake-news media collapse.
For several days the media has been saying the Trump administration FBI targeted John Bolton, hence the FBI raid on his home and office. However, the New York Times now outlines how the investigation into John Bolton began during the Biden administration and picked up speed after they received access to his email information from an “adversarial country’s spy service.”
Apparently, John Bolton used an unclassified email system to send information to his friends and allies. The emails were intercepted. Bolton was discussing information that appears to have been the outcome of his access to classified information as National Security Advisor.
CTH has previously outlined how John Bolton’s business model was essentially selling information and influence. This common DC business model seems to have formed the baseline for him to share sensitive, possibly classified information, of greater value. This does not come as a surprise.
Selling information is the currency of affluence in Washington DC. That’s why the removal of security clearances is looked upon as devastating within the beltway. New York Times story below:
NEW YORK TIMES – The investigation into President Trump’s former national security adviser, John R. Bolton, began to pick up momentum during the Biden administration, when U.S. intelligence officials collected information that appeared to show that he had mishandled classified information, according to people familiar with the inquiry.
The United States gathered data from an adversarial country’s spy service, including emails with sensitive information that Mr. Bolton, while still working in the first Trump administration, appeared to have sent to people close to him on an unclassified system, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive case that remains open.
The emails in question, according to the people, were sent by Mr. Bolton and included information that appeared to derive from classified documents he had seen while he was national security adviser. Mr. Bolton apparently sent the messages to people close to him who were helping him gather material that he would ultimately use in his 2020 memoir, “The Room Where It Happened.”
In a sign of the stakes for Mr. Bolton, he is in talks to retain the high-profile criminal defense lawyer Abbe Lowell. Mr. Lowell, who has represented Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Mr. Biden’s son Hunter, is defending two other prominent perceived enemies of Mr. Trump who are now under scrutiny: the New York state attorney general, Letitia James, and Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve Board. (read more)
At the time of the raid, we noted the activity of Bolton mirrors that of former Senator John McCain (now dead). “An FBI investigation under the auspices of potential violations of the Espionage Act, where Bolton would have leveraged current or prior classified intelligence information as part of his influence business.
Almost identically to former Senator John McCain, John Bolton was well known to intersect with the nation of Qatar as part of his operation. Qatar has deep pockets and a long-identified influence operation throughout the Middle East, sometimes playing both sides. Qatar is also the playground for the CIA.
While it is yet unknown which nation and which activity Bolton was likely engaged in, the highest probability centers around the deepest pockets, which would also put Bolton on the CIA radar.
Since initially writing that outline, someone noticed this video from John McCain’s funeral. WATCH CLOSELY:
looks like he made one of those deals right here on camera at John McCain’s funeral. isn’t that Mouaz Moustafa, Syrian ETF handing Bolton gold bar or something wrapped in a handkerchief? pic.twitter.com/qXwtre73eL
— The Rubber Duck ™ (@TheRubberDuck79) August 25, 2025
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Something is being given to John Bolton in that video. Something from Mouaz Moustafa, Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF) and Senator John McCain’s intermediary to the Muslim Brotherhood. {Go Deep}
If I had to guess, from the position of Moustafa and those behind him (Muslim Brotherhood/Qatar), John Bolton became the replacement for John McCain after the senator’s death. We wait to find out the details of the predicate for the FBI raid.

I don’t understand why people are allowed to keep their security clearance after they leave the position that required it. Let them keep it for maybe 30 to 60 days in case they move into another position that requires it, then revoke it if it is no longer needed. If they move into a position requiring security clearance after the 30 to 60 day period, make them go through the vetting process all over again.
That is what happens to most of us peons.
Exactly and if one of us peons needs a clearance later in life … reactivation happen pretty quick as long as you pass the criminal background check and need to know criteria.
I work in a school district for the state of Oregon.
This requires a state and FBI fingerprint review.
Its about $130 for the process
If I change districts (get another job in Oregon)
I have to be fingerprinted again. My most recents don’t count.
Another 130$.
But these slime get to peddle their wares BASED on their clearance
beyond the jobs they were cleared for.
Fix it, PDJT
The running excuse is, for “senior folks with clearances”, is that they have some special skill or knowledge that will be called upon after they leave employment …. they may be recalled to temp duty, as a reviewer, as a consultants, as a panel member, etc.
Nobody ever stops to consider that clearance reactivation can occur at the snap of the finger as long as the person gaining the clearance has a REAL NEED TO KNOW and a clean criminal background check.
It’s all BS.
The “need to know” comes from the phrase “Loose lips sink…”
Having a Security Clearance gives them something to sell.
Case in point: Hillard Clinton
Themselves and their loyalty
except the vetting clearly doesnt work anyways with all the leaks we get. the problem is that all of a dc is a cesspool of corrupt people and that frankly we may soon be better off just letting ai handle it all.. i know i know but at this rate what do we have to lose? stick with the psychos in charge and we all die anyways. sorry but i dont see someone of trumps ability to come after his lame duck starts so we have a best two years more of swamp swatting before its all reset .
Watch what you wish for, AI is cut and dry, no mitigating or empathy is involved!
Getting re-vetted for a Top Secret w/Cripto access with the background they had would more than likely not go through! Something like a DUI would nullify it! If he was being looked at in Biden admin., more than likely he would have it stripped or cancelled. I’m pretty sure Biden would not be looking at him for a DUI type of issue! It also would prolly be several years ago they were looking at! That TS W/ Cripto would NOT go through without major league help!
I had a DOD T S w/ Crypto, Bolton would be an AEC classification, or tougher standards yet!
Watch The Sopranos or the Godfather movies. Once you become a “Made Man” in the mafia you retain that status for life (unless you go to sleep with the fishes.) You stay tied in. You keep getting your cut from your rackets. You are always bound by the code of Omerta.
One might ask why team biden would let Bolton off the hook.
One plausible reason is a bit of quid pro quo with Bolton holding up his end by being a media mudslinger against Trump.
10% for the Big Guy and we’ll look the other way.
Was he a more useful idiot as a mudslinger, or would he have been more useful as an anchor tied around PDJT’s neck? I can definitely see the quid pro quo potential.
Once the Bidonians had compromising evidence on Bolton, they could either prosecute him (ending his career) or make him their -itch (the gift that keeps on giving). They could require Bolton to provide insider info on Trump; stab Trump in the back in his books, articles, speeches, and personal communictions; pass along real or disinformation to his foreign contacts; cut the Bidens in on his deals; or, all of the above.
Lose the security clearance and kiss your career in high positions good-bye!
Qatar has deep pockets and a long-identified influence operation throughout the Middle East, sometimes playing both sides. Qatar is also the playground for the CIA.
Isn’t that where Iran “retaliated” to the US nuclear site bombings….In which Trump chose not to respond?
Was Bolton still leaking after his clearance was revoked?
And they are removing the stolen classified materials?
Will this classified info be withheld from the courts too?
We’ve properly tried spies who sold classified information before. Can we still do do in open court?
Who recommended that President Trump hire Bolton?
Might have been Reince Priebus when he was Chief of Staff.
Bolton was on the short list but lost out to H.R. McMaster. President Trump may have just went to the next person in line and hired Bolton after firing H.R. McMaster.
I seem to remember Mark Levin talking Bolton up at the time.
Yep, makes you wonder.
An excellent thing to wonder about….
Good to be known, better to be known by who identifies you as an enemy.
Probably just some of that fancy chocolate with pistachios on a stack of 10-ounce gold bars.
Somewhere are Hillary’s 33,000 emails.
Will that shoe drop?
Go for the gusto, think The Kenyan! If he goes down, everybody goes down! Think back quite a few moons ago in “We Caught Them All”!
And Bolton has hired Hunter’s lawyers
that photo of McCain — isn’t that him meeting with his “friendly ISIS” faction?
Yes!
Now you know where Cindy M. got that diamond necklace!
Notice Ms. Lindsey is awful quiet anymore?
Traitors deserve a traitors reward….a short rope and long fall….
The NY Times article was designed to persuade readers that the investigation into Bolton is legitimate and probably not political payback. That tells me they’ve got him dead to rights selling influence and using classified information, and probably to a bad actor like Qatar, as Sundance suggests. The idea is probably to paint Bolton as a lone bad actor and keep people from seeing how common this is among deep staters.
I just hope that the “adversarial country’s spy service” wasn’t China and that the President traded the Princelings access to college for Bolton.
In other words, they shut down the Bolton probe to protect Hillary?
Keep connecting the dots!
Yosemite Bolton is in big trouble.
Qatar again. Somebody told me that India owns my electric company but when I dug up Avangrid, it led me to Qatar ownership and that’s a large part of NY. What else do they own in America using cover companies?
They own most of London
Once again, Sundance, thank you for opening my eyes.
In the statement about John McCain (now dead) – I’d like to rephrase that to (thankfully now dead).