FBI agents executed a court-authorized search of former national security adviser John Bolton’s Bethesda, Maryland, home at about 7:00 a.m. ET on Friday as part of a national-security investigation into the possible mishandling of classified documents, according to a bureau statement and people familiar with the matter. The operation, ordered by newly appointed FBI Director Kash Patel, also encompassed Bolton’s Washington office. Patel wrote on X that “no one is above the law” shortly after the searches began. Witnesses said agents spent roughly an hour at the properties and were seen removing boxes; neither arrests nor charges were announced. Bolton, 75, served as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser from April 2018 to September 2019 and has since become a prominent critic of the administration. Friday’s action revives a 2020 Justice Department inquiry into whether he improperly retained or disclosed classified information in his memoir, “The Room Where It Happened,” a case that was shelved during the Biden administration. Representatives for Bolton, the Justice Department and the White House did not immediately comment. The FBI has not indicated what materials were seized or when the investigation might conclude.