How John Bolton’s criminal case stacks up to other high-profile classified docs probes

John Bolton is in good — or at least prominent — company.

In facing an investigation and, now, prosecution for allegedly mishandling classified information, Bolton joins a long list of high-ranking officials who have confronted allegations they were cavalier, or worse, with secrets entrusted to them as they oversaw some of the U.S. government’s most sensitive military, intelligence and diplomatic endeavors.