FBI Director Calls for Conscious Handling of Classified Documents: ‘Rules Are There for a Reason’
FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday lamented about the recent span of discoveries of classified documents at current and former leader’s homes and offices, saying that those who have access to classified material “need to be conscious” about the rules surrounding it.
During a Justice Department press conference announcing a major crackdown of a cyber-criminal gang, Wray was asked if he was concerned that the U.S. government system for accounting for classified information in the executive branch “may be broken.”
“Obviously, I can’t comment on any specific investigation, but we have had, for quite a number of years, any number of mishandling investigations,” Wray replied. “That is, unfortunately, a regular part of our counterintelligence divisions’—our counterintelligence program’s— work….