Fox News panel expresses concern over FBI's Bolton raid
Fox contributor Jonathan Turley: “There is a great concern about whether this is retaliation against a political opponent”
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From the August 22, 2025, edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom
CHRIS SWECKER (FORMER ASSISTANT FBI DIRECTOR): I will say, I have consulted with several of my colleagues, we were the leadership team just before Comey, and we're looking at this a little bit skeptically because we were very heavily critical of the Mar-a-Lago raid. Just because you have the authority and discretion to do something like this, doesn't mean you should. So we're waiting. We just don't want to see the FBI weaponized for the other side, if you will, just turning the playbook over. So, we're anxiously awaiting the unsealing of that affidavit because I believe it will be a speaking affidavit which will really lay out pretty much of the case, at least supporting the search warrant and probably a little more.
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JONATHAN TURLEY (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): Well, I think that's a very good point. There is a great concern about whether this is retaliation against a political opponent. We just don't know because we haven't seen the warrant, we haven't seen the affidavit. We do know that there has been a longstanding disagreement, as David Spunt noted, going back to Bolton's book, and it does not appear that that disagreement was ever truly resolved, at least from media accounts. But that was years ago.
The question is why now? And what has happened? And we'll know that better, I think, sooner than later. Keep in mind Bolton himself can reveal what was taken and what was explained to him in the documents he was given. So, some of this information may come from his side.