The FBI finds itself in a challenging moment as it conducts simultaneous investigations involving classified documents held by former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden
WASHINGTON — Three days after federal agents searched former President Donald Trump’s Florida home for classified documents, FBI Director Christopher Wray emailed his workforce urging them to tune out criticism from those who “don’t know what we know and don’t see what we see.” The work was done by the
the damage assessment. right. and that s a key question. we were asking that question with donald trump, and obviously he had a lot more classified information, around 300, compared to the approximately 30 that joe biden had. but it is a fair question and an important one because of the national security implications. joshua skule, shan wu, thank you very much. you are in the cnn newsroom on this sunday night. how family and friends paid tribute and said good-bye to lisa marie presley. up next. what s the #1 retinol brand used most by dermatologists? it s neutrogena®
the current president using that information when he shouldn t have been? right. and just for viewers at home, joshua, you know, you were the head of the intelligence division at the fbi. you know, we don t know what was in these documents. but what is your biggest concern? had and there s also a lot of discussion about overclas overclassification, right, that documents are often over-classified, they shouldn t be top secret, so forth and so on. how do you assess it? there is an ongoing effort and has been for years on the classification system in the government. are documents overclassified? i think folks will look to that and try to determine whether that was the case with these documents or even the documents found at the former president s mar-a-lago. i don t know that that s necessarily jermaine. the fact that they are classified and they were not stored appropriately is really the key here. and then my concern, what type of sources and methods could have been compromised as a
and joshua is a director for intelligence. joshua, yet another batch of classified documents. how concerning is this? so, pam, i think this is very concerning for a couple of reasons. one, it s a long period of time for which they found classified information stretching back to when president biden was in the senate. two, how long was it unsecure? three, who had access to it? and fourth, where else is there information? just to follow up on that and those are very important questions. and i know investigators are looking at that. when it comes to the fact it dated back to his time in senate, could it be possible it was classified then and it is no longer considered classified information? and how would that factor into the investigation? i think it could be determined that it s no longer classified. that would be up to the dni and the threat assessment that s ongoing, the damage assessment. i think what this really shows