2026年6月4日 美国东部时间上午10:18 / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：凯特琳·波兰茨、凯特兰·柯林斯、汉娜·拉宾诺维茨
更新于2026年6月4日 美国东部时间上午10:45
约翰·博尔顿，美国前国家安全顾问，摄于2025年9月29日马萨诸塞州剑桥市的一场论坛。
杰森·伯格曼/彭博社/盖蒂图片社
据三位知情人士透露，曾是唐纳德·特朗普总统前国家安全顾问、后转为特朗普批评者的约翰·博尔顿，将就不当处理机密文件认罪。
其中一位消息人士称，他计划对一项非法留存敏感国家安全文件的重罪指控认罪。另一位消息人士透露，他还同意支付超过200万美元的罚款。
一项非法留存罪名的定罪可判处0至60个月监禁。
美国司法部拒绝置评，并建议CNN查阅法院案卷，案卷显示听证会已定于6月26日举行。
观看凯特琳·波兰茨解读博尔顿的认罪协议：
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/politics/john-bolton-guilty-plea-agreement-trump-critic
CNN报道：约翰·博尔顿就不当处理敏感国家安全文件达成认罪协议
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此次认罪协议距离这位特朗普的主要反对者在马里兰州被起诉仅数月，当时检方指控他将首届特朗普政府时期的日记留存在家中。
检方指控博尔顿通过个人电子邮箱向两名未经授权的人士分享了“超过一千页有关其日常工作的信息”，CNN此前曾报道这两人是他的妻子和女儿。但指控的机密信息传输并未包含在他即将认罪的罪名中。
曾在首届特朗普政府任职一年的博尔顿最初面临八项传播国防信息罪和十项留存国防信息罪的指控。
特朗普长期以来一直呼吁以博尔顿2020年出版的对其批评极为尖锐的回忆录为由逮捕博尔顿，声称博尔顿因书中包含机密信息理应入狱。
但与针对特朗普其他所谓对手的案件不同——例如联邦调查局局长詹姆斯·科米的相关案件以及已被驳回的针对纽约州总检察长莱蒂夏·詹姆斯的案件——博尔顿的案件此前获得了职业检察官和调查人员的支持，据此前向CNN透露消息的人士称。
特朗普首届政府时期的司法部曾于2020年对该书启动刑事和民事调查，但在一年内结案。
但次年，也就是拜登政府任期内，联邦调查局就博尔顿的邮箱遭疑似伊朗黑客入侵一事启动了新的调查，调查人员在其中发现了包含其担任国家安全顾问期间绝密信息的“类似日记的记录”。
本文仍在持续更新中。
Exclusive: John Bolton reaches plea deal over mishandling of sensitive national security documents
2026-06-04 10:18 AM ET / CNN
By Katelyn Polantz, Kaitlan Collins, Hannah Rabinowitz
Updated Jun 4, 2026, 10:45 AM ET
John Bolton, former US national security adviser, attends a forum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 29, 2025.
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John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser-turned-adversary, is expected to plead guilty over mishandling classified documents, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
He intends to plead guilty to one felony count of illegal retention of sensitive national security documents, according to one of the sources. He has also agreed to pay a more than $2 million fine, according to one of the sources.
A conviction on one count of illegal retention comes with a sentence between 0 and 60 months in prison.
The Justice Department declined to comment and referred CNN to the court docket, which indicates a hearing was set for June 26.
Watch Katelyn Polantz discuss Bolton’s plea deal:
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/politics/john-bolton-guilty-plea-agreement-trump-critic
John Bolton reaches plea deal over mishandling sensitive national security documents, reports CNN’s …
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The plea deal comes months after the top Trump foe was charged by prosecutors in Maryland for allegedly keeping diary entries from the first Trump White House in his home.
Prosecutors accused Bolton of sharing “more than a thousand pages of information about his day-to-day activities” through his personal email account with two unauthorized individuals, who CNN has reported are his wife and daughter. The alleged transmission of classified information isn’t part of the charges he expects to plead guilty to.
Bolton, who served for one year in the first Trump administration, was originally charged with eight counts of transmission of national defense information and 10 counts of retention of national defense information.
Trump had long been long been calling for Bolton to be arrested over his 2020 memoir that was highly critical of the president, claiming Bolton should have gone to jail because classified information was contained in the book.
But unlike cases against Trump’s other perceived enemies, like FBI Director James Comey and the now-dismissed case against New York Attorney General Letitia James, Bolton’s case has maintained the support of career prosecutors and investigators, people briefed on the matter previously told CNN.
Trump’s first Justice Department opened criminal and civil investigations into the book in 2020, but it was closed within a year.
But the FBI opened a new inquiry into Bolton the next year, still during the Biden presidency, after his email was breached by suspected Iranian hackers, as investigators discovered “diary-like entries” containing top secret information from his time as national security advisor.
This story is developing and will be updated.
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