House Intel leaders: ‘Administrations are sloppy’ with handling classified materials

House Intelligence Committee leaders say it appears multiple administrations are “messy” and “sloppy” in their handling of classified material, claiming the FBI is “not budging” on the Trump, Pence and Biden cases.

It comes after the Intelligence Committee received a briefing on the documents recovered from the homes of Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Mike Pence.

But the panel’s ranking member, Jim Himes, told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday that they were only getting a “taste” of what was in the documents.

‘I’ll tell you you got a taste; this is a very serious problem,” Himes said. “These weren’t things that we can clearly say don’t matter. It is important.’

Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner told Meet the Press host Chuck Todd in the joint interview with Himes on Sunday morning that the FBI is not giving the panel all the information they need to get a full picture of the scope of the investigation. problem.

Representative Mike Turner said the FBI is “unwilling” and claims multiple administrations have been “sloppy” and “sloppy” in handling classified material

“Administration after administration is apparently sloppy and messy in their use of classified documents and that’s one thing we need to address on a bipartisan basis, way beyond just this,” Turner said.

“This should change when secret documents are under a certain degree of scrutiny,” he added.

Turner said that despite being in a classified setting during the briefing, they still do not have a full picture of the classified documents that President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence were in their possession in error.

“One of the things we know is that the FBI isn’t coming,” Turner claimed. “They’re not giving us the information.”

“They claim it will affect the outcome of their investigation, which of course cannot be the case, because the people targeted by their investigation know what is in those documents and we have the permission and the ability to look at these documents,” he added.

A few months after the FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence to recover classified documents, Biden’s lawyers found material with the same secret markings in the president’s residence and think tank.

Soon after, it was revealed that Pence had taken classified documents at his Indiana home.

Documents were found last year at President Joe Biden’s residence in Wilmington, Delaware and at his think tank in Washington, D.C.

It came just a few months after the FBI raided former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence to retrieve classified materials from his home

Ranking member Jim Himes said they were only getting a “taste” of what was in the briefing documents and said of what they learned, “this is a very serious issue”

Himes said neither he nor Turner are “satisfied” with what they learned during their briefing on the secret documents business for the former president, current president and former vice president.

“We’ve been shown nothing from which to draw that conclusion and we have to be a little careful here,” Himes said.

“Well, we’ve been informed, but let’s just say neither of us are satisfied that we have enough information to carry out our primary responsibility of making sure sources and methods are protected,” he added. “We still have to learn more before we can be satisfied with that.”

“We can’t go into too much detail.”