Pete Strzok: Biden Mishandling Classified Materials Is Not as Bad as Trump

STRZOK: “Look, any time classified information is not stored appropriately, it presents a great deal of risk to all the different sources of information that the intelligence community might be running. Whether that’s human sources, signals intercept capabilities, satellite capabilities, the sort of thing that provide vital information to support the national security of the United States. It’s supposed to be protected in a certain way. It shouldn’t have been in the location that it was for President Biden. Now, the fact of the matter is, as sensitive as this information is, almost on a daily basis somewhere in the U.S. government, classified information is mishandled, and where that becomes important is the reasons why it was mishandled. Is this something where somebody was simply negligent, they didn’t know that something was taken, they accidentally left something behind. They get it shuffled up in a mix of classified and unclassified papers. Those things typically are handled in an administrative way, and again, they are unfortunately very, very common. Now, that’s entirely different from a scenario where you have somebody obviously if they’re trying to give that to a foreign power, but also if they know that they have this classified information, they know they shouldn’t have it. They’re taking methods — taking steps to hide that from the authorities, trying to obscure the fact that they have it, and that sort of intent and behavior behind this mishandling of classified information is really what’s important to understand.”