Andrew Weissmann on Bolton’s Indictment: ‘These Are Serious Charges’

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WEISSMANN: "I do think with this one you need to keep two thoughts in your head at the same time. These are serious charges. There is no question if someone who is in the intelligence community, you cannot send classified information, including what’s alleged top secret information that really when you they have some descriptions, short ones about the nature of the information, it is not quite as jaw dropping as what we saw in the Mar-a-Lago case, but it is significant. He sent that over unclassified communication systems. Gmail. That’s a fancy way of saying sent over gmail. You obviously know you can’t do that and sent it to two people, albeit his wife and his daughter, but still people who are not cleared to get it. And that risk manifested itself because in fact, there was a hack. And so these are serious. There’s also precedent for it. General petraeus did something very similar to this. He was charged. Now he was dealt with in a very different way. But it remains to be seen what happens here. It’s also the case that, unlike the other charges with James Comey and Letitia James, there’s a slew of career people who signed this indictment at the very last page. You see what you normally would see sort of trial attorneys. Ausa so all of that is sort of on the one hand. And as somebody in the intelligence community previously, I really do take this incredibly seriously. The reason you have to keep two things in mind at the same time is that there are two systems of justice going on. Donald Trump was alleged to do something far worse in many ways, with many more documents and two two forms of obstruction of justice. Pete Hegseth used signal, which is also not a secure system for classified information, to what I think has to be classified information that was highly sensitive, and you don’t see that being investigated at all. I would note that Jack Smith, in the interview that I conducted, said that any administration, any normal one, would have opened a criminal case on that. So I think there’s sort of two things going on at the same time. And I have to tell you, I think the most serious is two systems of justice, because that is something that systemic law, a systemic problem with what’s going on in America."