Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton was charged Thursday with 18 counts of retention and transmission of national defense information , according to unsealed court documents.

Bolton is accused of sharing more than 1,000 pages of information about government activities with relatives in diary-like notes about his time in government. The indictment also alleges that the personal email account Bolton used to share the information was hacked by an entity believed to be associated with Iran. An attorney for Bolton denied wrongdoing.

Bolton served for 17 months as national security adviser during President Donald Trump ’s first term, clashing with him over Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea before being fired in 2019 .

Though the investigation that produ

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