title: U.S. State Department disputes FBI view that it has lax security culture
text: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it disagreed with FBI Director James Comey’s assessment that the department as a whole has a lax attitude toward security compared to other U.S. government agencies. “We don’t share the broad assessment made of our institution that there’s a lax culture here when it comes to protecting classified information. We take it very, very seriously,” State Department spokesman John Kirby told a news briefing. His comments came after Comey announced some of the results of the FBI’s yearlong investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was in office. Comey said the FBI found evidence of a general lack of care for classified information at the State Department. 