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华盛顿——据两名直接了解此事的消息人士透露，前特朗普总统时期的国家安全顾问约翰·博尔顿计划承认一项保留涉密国家安全信息的罪名，并同意缴纳225万美元罚款。
如今已是特朗普坚定批评者的博尔顿，去年因处理敏感政府信息遭到18项罪名起诉。检方称，他在七年时间里以“日记式”记录的方式，将相关信息分享给两名亲属，目的可能是用于撰写一本书。他已于去年10月提出无罪抗辩。
其中一名消息人士表示，博尔顿预计将于6月26日在马里兰州美国地区法院举行的听证会上提交认罪协议。案件卷宗将该程序描述为“重新传讯”。
该人士补充称，这项单项罪名的量刑范围为零至60个月监禁。
消息人士称，认罪协议并未指控博尔顿与其书籍出版相关的任何不当行为，也未指控他将涉密文件带回家或分享给媒体或外国对手。他们指出，博尔顿打算为自己的行为承担责任。
今年10月中旬，联邦大陪审团以八项传播国防信息罪名和十项保留国防信息罪名起诉博尔顿。由于与庭审中处理涉密信息相关的程序问题，他的案件进展缓慢。
共和党人博尔顿在四十年间担任过美国政府多个高级职务，并在特朗普第一任期内担任国家安全顾问。但此后他成为了总统的直言不讳的批评者。
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博尔顿在被起诉后曾表示，自2019年离开白宫职位以来，特朗普一直在设法惩罚他，并声称自己是总统“恐吓对手”企图的受害者。
检方称，2018年4月至2025年8月期间，博尔顿向两名身份不明的亲属分享了超过1000页关于他在特朗普政府白宫工作期间日常活动的信息，其中部分内容包含涉密信息。起诉书还指控博尔顿在马里兰州蒙哥马利县的家中存放与国防相关的文件、文稿和笔记，其中包括涉密信息。
司法部在法庭文件中指控，博尔顿的“日记式”笔记是手写笔记的打字转录版，随后通过商业性非政府即时通讯应用程序发送给他的两名亲属。检方称，博尔顿还使用AOL和谷歌等个人电子邮件账户向亲属发送涉密信息。
起诉书称，这些记录包含最高机密和敏感分隔信息级别的敏感信息，这类信息的来源涉及敏感情报渠道。检方表示，博尔顿的笔记包含他从与高级政府官员会面、情报简报以及与外国领导人和外国情报及军事组织的讨论中获取的“详细信息”。
博尔顿还被指控打印并在其家中存放这些笔记，并在个人设备上保留数字副本。根据法庭文件，联邦调查局于去年8月搜查了博尔顿在马里兰州的住所和华盛顿特区的办公室，并缴获了电子文件。
John Bolton plans to plead guilty in classified documents case, sources say
June 4, 2026 / 11:13 AM EDT / CBS News
Washington — John Bolton, former national security adviser to President Trump, is planning to plead guilty to one count of retaining classified national security information and will agree to pay a $2.25 million fine, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter.
Bolton, now a staunch critic of Mr. Trump, was indicted last year on 18 counts related to his handling of sensitive government information that prosecutors said he shared with two relatives in “diary-like” entries across a seven-year span for possible use in a book he was writing. He had pleaded not guilty in October.
Bolton is expected to submit the plea agreement at a hearing at the U.S. district court in Maryland on June 26, one source said. The docket in his case describes the proceeding as a “re-arraignment.”
The sentencing range for the single count is from zero to 60 months of incarceration, the person added.
The sources said the plea deal does not allege any wrongdoing by Bolton in connection with the publication of his book, nor is he accused of taking home any classified records or sharing them with the media or foreign adversaries. They noted he intends to accept responsibility for what he did.
A federal grand jury indicted Bolton in mid-October on eight counts of transmitting national defense information and 10 counts of retaining national defense information. His case had moved slowly because of procedures related to how classified information would be handled in proceedings.
Bolton, a Republican, has held a variety of senior positions within the U.S. government across four decades and served as national security adviser to Mr. Trump during his first term. But he has since become a vocal critic of the president.
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He said after he was indicted that Mr. Trump has been working to punish him since he left his post in the White House in 2019, and claimed he was a victim of the president’s attempts to “intimidate his opponents.”
Prosecutors claimed that from April 2018 to August 2025, Bolton shared with two unidentified relatives more than 1,000 pages of information about his daily activities while working in the White House for Mr. Trump, some of which contained classified information. The indictment also alleged that Bolton kept documents, writings and notes related to the national defense, including information that was classified, in his home in Montgomery County, Maryland.
The Justice Department alleged in court papers that Bolton’s “diary-like” notes were typed transcriptions of handwritten notes that were then sent to his two relatives through a commercial, non-governmental messaging app. Prosecutors said Bolton also used personal email accounts, like those from AOL and Google, to email classified information to the family members.
The indictment claims that the entries included sensitive information up to the top secret and sensitive compartmented information level, a designation that means it was derived from sensitive intelligence sources. Prosecutors said Bolton’s notes contained “detailed information” that he learned from meetings with high-ranking government officials, intelligence briefings and discussions with foreign leaders and foreign intelligence and military organizations.
Bolton was also accused of printing out and storing the notes at his house, and keeping digital copies on personal devices. The FBI searched Bolton’s Maryland home and Washington, D.C., office last August, and seized electronic files, according to court documents.