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Matt Blaze Oct 16, 2025

Bolton indictment (unauthorized transmission and retention of national defense information) filed. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.592874/gov.uscourts.mdd.592874.1.0_1.pdf

From a quick read: this appears to involve his own summarized "diary" entries, both written and emailed (to his publisher/editor, perhaps), rather than original marked classified documents. This likely means that at trial they'll need to prove that each fact alleged in the docs/emails was actually classified at the time and not summarized from public or unclassified info.

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Matt Blaze Oct 16, 2025

"Graymail" is a common tactic in cases involving classified info in which the defense threatens to introduce expansive amounts of classified material into (public) evidence, in the hope of making prosecution unpalatable for the government. The Classified Information Protection Act reins in the tactic, but in this case, it seems possible that Bolton might be given a fair bit of latitude to introduce the context of the alleged classified facts by showing the original docs.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-2054-synopsis-classified-information-procedures-act-cipa

2054. Synopsis Of Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA)

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Kevin Karhan

@mattblaze #Graymail sadly isn't a #US-exclusive strategy.

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