Alabama- Federal agents seized multiple documents labelled “classified”, “confidential” and “secret” from the office of former national security adviser John Bolton as part of an investigation into whether Bolton mishandled defence records, according to court filings.

The seized documents marked as confidential appear to be about weapons of mass destruction, national “strategic communication” and the US mission to the United Nations, investigators wrote in a catalogued list of what was collected during the search in late August. The list did not specify when the documents are from. The FBI also seized phones and computer equipment at the time, according to the court filings that were unsealed on Tuesday.

More than a dozen pages in the affidavit have partial or full redactions. It is not

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