8. Everyone is fully entitled to presumption of innocence. And I assume one of Bolton's defenses will be he did not consider the diaries classified or national defense information. He may cite his views expressed during prepublication review process as evidence. Para 59 (re 2021) may then be key.⤵️

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9. If Bolton raises a selective/vindictive prosecution defense, he'll be able to point to the apparent non-investigation of Hegseth for a remarkably similar set of facts: Sharing Yemen strike info via Signal with wife, brother, and others. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

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7. NYT report (Aug 2025) corroborates Indictment Biden administration investigation accelerated when USG "gathered data from an adversarial country’s spy service, including emails with sensitive information that Mr Bolton ... appeared to have sent to people close to him on an unclassified system."

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6. Iranian hackers in fact warned Bolton in August 2021: "[W]e'll disseminate the expurgated sections of your book by reference to your leaked email." All this strongly suggests the diaries had national defense info kept out of the book. Bolton would know at time of hack, a year after book.

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5. Here's what Ellen Knight said per the letter submitted to court.⤵️ Knight suggested the first draft of Bolton's book was "replete" with classified information. The Indictment is based on the information not contained in the published book (para 53).

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