What Trump’s main officials have said about the mismanagement of classified information

Multiple Trump administration officials who allegedly made discussions classified on an open messaging platform in the past condemned the mismanagement of the records classified by others, including former President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have requested “consequences” for people who incorrectly shared classified materials, regardless of their intention. Defense Secretary Pete Hegesh criticized Biden for mismanagement of classified documents and suggested that if he had behaved similarly, he would have hoped to be “of the Martial Court.”

The condemnation language that these senior administration officials have used on previous protocol infractions in the management of confidential materials adds a layer of irony to what experts call an inconceivable misuse of classified information.

John Cohen, a former National Security official in Republican and Democratic Administrations, said: “From a security perspective, there is no scenario that justifies this type of information discussed on a communication platform controlled by non -governmental.”

“The communication of sensitive and operational operational information in this way increases the probability of an inappropriate dissemination that puts military personnel at risk,” said Cohen, who is also ABC News taxpayer. “There will also be questions about whether to do so violated the statutes that govern the safeguarding and retention of government information.”

More recently, many of these senior administration officials had much to say about the investigation of one year on the management of materials classified by the year. The investigation did not result in any position.

In January 2023, Hegseth, that a “fox & Friends Weekend, “Coanfrerion, appeared in Fox News and described the actions of Biden” disastrous, careless and silly. “

“If the upper man at work handled such frantic classified documents for so long, why was that the case? Was it really that he did not know? When you take something out of the SCIF. [Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility] If you are a senator, you know exactly what you are doing. You had to sneak, “he said. The report included photos of boxes, including a damaged one that contained classified materials, including documents on Afghanistan that was found in the garage of the Biden house in Delaware” near a collapsed dog box, a dog bed, a box of zaps, an empty cover, a broken lamp wrapped with adhesive tape, food tape, food land, and synthetic land. “.” “.” “” “.” “.” “” “.” “.”

In January 2023, Rubio also appeared in Fox News, where he said: “At any time the documents have been eliminated in their appropriate environment: it is a problem, I do not care who has done it.”

During his mandate as Secretary of State, Clinton made controversy when using a private email server for official public communications instead of using official email accounts of the State Department held on federal servers. The way many officials reacted has returned to pursue them.

In 2016, Hegseth told Fox News: “If it were someone who is not Hillary Clinton, they would be in jail at this time … because the assumption is in the intelligence community, if you are using unlacified means, there is the probability that foreign governments point to those accounts.”

Reacting to a politician article about Clinton, Waltz, who apparently added Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic chief editor, to the signal chat, criticized the Department of Justice for its management of the situation.

“Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, secretly sent messages to the private account of Hillary Clinton. And what did the DOJ do about it? It’s not a damn thing,” said Waltz.

In January 2016, Rubio also appeared in Fox News, demanding that Clinton was responsible.

“No one is above the law … people will be responsible if they violated the laws of this country,” he said.

In August 2022, Stephen Miller, now the deputy director of Trump policy personnel who was also in the signal chat group, also published his thoughts on X reacting to the Clinton email scandal.

“A point that is not done enough about the non -sure server of Hillary illegally used to carry out state businesses (obviously created to hide the payment for the corrupt game of the Clinton): foreign adversaries could easily hack up classified operations And Intel in real time from other sides of the world, “he said.

Only two weeks ago, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard announced an offensive against leaks within the intelligence community.

“Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such,” he said in a press release.