"Unless DOJ disguised him, the hack of John Bolton described in his indictment didn't show up in the Iranian hack-and-leak indictment. It should have. After listing the 2022 attempt to assassinate Bolton (where he is described as "a former US National Security Advisor," the indictment lists a slew of people that Iran IGRC attempted to hack (starting in 2020) and (starting in 2021) nine people it succeeded in hacking before it hacked Roger Stone and four other Trump flunkies."
"As the (nifty color-coded) timeline below makes clear, Bolton told the FBI about the hack of him, on July 6, 2021, just as the Iranian hackers were setting up infrastructure to hack a set of people that include those, like Bolton, who played a role in the Qasem Soleimani assassination and Trump's hardline first term approach with Iran."
The Iranian hack-and-leak indictment includes a 2022 assassination attempt on John Bolton and lists multiple hacking attempts beginning in 2020 with nine successful intrusions in 2021, including Roger Stone and others. John Bolton reported a hack to the FBI on July 6, 2021, coinciding with Iranian actors establishing infrastructure targeting individuals linked to the Qasem Soleimani operation and hardline Iran policy. Bolton's reported hack does not appear in the public hack-and-leak indictment. Possible explanations include a sealed related-case notice in Bolton's docket, deliberate prosecutorial omission to protect investigative details, or an open criminal inquiry concerning his hack.
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