Hours after FBI Director James Comey blasted Hillary Clinton and her aides for their “extremely careless” handling of classified information, the State Department rejected Comey’s conclusion that the agency had a “lax culture” surrounding the treatment of sensitive material.

“We don’t share the assessment that as an institution … that the State Department has in the past or does today take lightly the issue of sensitive and classified information,” agency spokesman John Kirby told reporters Tuesday.