We’re all ears when “former” government officials weigh in on current events, like when 50 former intelligence officials said the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation. It turns out that John Cohen is an ABC News contributor as well as the former acting undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at the Department of Homeland Security. We were wondering … did ABC News track down this guy so they could write the story they wanted to write? Turns out he’s in house, and he says that security violations, like leaving classified documents in your garage, are often just accidents.
"Security violations sound very, very nefarious, but in many cases, they're just accidents."
A former Homeland Security official weighs in on the Biden classified document probe. https://t.co/Hqv6JJsUi2
— ABC News (@ABC) January 16, 2023
Cohen told ABC News:
Think of it this way: I don’t know what your desk is like, but mine’s pretty messy. And when I was working in some of my offices, I would have stacks of paper that were unclassified, stacks of paper that were classified, and I literally had a staff person who every day looked to see what was going into my briefcase to make sure that I didn’t accidentally miss a classified piece of information and accidentally bring it home.
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You know we know that the documents in Mar-a-Lago had those cover sheets, right? Those brightly covered cover sheets with big letters stamped on it that said top secret, sensitive, [or] compartmented intelligence. But, we have not heard yet whether cover sheets were on the material found in the Biden home. So, there’s a lot to learn still. Security violations sound very, very nefarious, but in many cases, they’re just accidents.
There’s a lot we haven’t heard about the documents found in Biden’s home. In Donald Trump’s case, the media were speculating that the documents were nuclear secrets.
And some folks are currently in prison because of these accidents
— Patrick (@PMC713) January 16, 2023
Oopsie!
— Kralik (@earlkralik) January 16, 2023
An accident that happened 4 times in 4 different places.
— Tim Spivey (@timspivey) January 16, 2023
Yes. They are very nefarious when comitted by a Republican, and “accidents” when comitted by a Democrat. As ALL other offenses. 😆
— Tanya Berlaga (@TBerlaga) January 17, 2023
I can’t find your “it’s no big deal” tweet about Trump and you don’t have “classified” in bold when referencing Biden. pic.twitter.com/DyQukfm5C7
— Anmarie (@AnmarieInMn) January 17, 2023
And there is annual training that is required to ensure this type of information is protected. Guess the regular employees will have to do more training to make up for his mishandling of info
— yup (@BSteinberg65) January 17, 2023
No one would say “it was just an accident” if this was a cyber breach into Pentagon systems.
— Wade Wrobel (@WadeWrobel) January 16, 2023
Funny, security violations are deemed pretty nefarious when it’s regular folk who are the ones committing them. They actually go to prison.
I thought that President Biden said.. “No one is above the law.” Yet, here we are… 🙄— Holly Thornton (@beachmamax2) January 16, 2023
Lmao. Pathetic. This is embarrassing how hard you all will bend the knee to him. Negligence isn’t a way of escaping breaking the law.
— 𝕍𝕖𝕣𝕟𝕠𝕟 ©️ (@VernonChittum) January 16, 2023
“Look guys, sometimes taking classified documents is actually totally fine…”
— Space Reptar (@ReptarInSpace) January 16, 2023
Since when does law enforcement allow a suspect's lawyers to conduct a search?
— Rodrikoo (@Rodrikoo2) January 16, 2023
— The Authority! (@snbforever) January 16, 2023
Being sycophants for the administration isn’t a great look ABC
— Bellend Bob (@Bellend_Bob) January 16, 2023
John Cohen and ABC slurping away
— Athena (@1trueathena) January 16, 2023
I want federal agents with guns searching every single inch of all of his private property for more "accidents"
— Stephen Mason (@Steveohmygoodne) January 17, 2023
Where was Cohen when the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago and leaked photos of all the classified documents spread out on the floor?
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