TS-SCI material is the highest classification category recognized by US law

[CousinIT]

It must be stored in a SCIF (special compartmentalized information facility). Just having that info outside a SCIF is a problem. They had ELEVEN SETS of this? And FOUR sets of Top Secret documents. By "sets", I assume that means a folder, binder, or box of documents, all pertaining to one subject, not necessarily one page of paper.

If we want to play their 'whataboutism' game, THERE WAS NEVER ANYTHING LIKE THIS FOUND IN HILLARY'S EMAILs. Nowhere near it.

[Phoenix61]

1. Source please? Thanks! nt

[CousinIT]

2. Stupid paywall but here it is.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-recovered-eleven-sets-of-classified-documents-in-trump-search-inventory-shows-11660324501

We have a fabulous DUer who can get these from an internet archive, so maybe (s)he can help us with that.

[Phoenix61]

3. Thanks! 😀nt

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. The classification issue is an irrelevant distraction

Possession of any presidential records is a violation of the PRA.

Possession of any documents determined to contain National Defense Information, regardless of classification status is a violation of the Espionage Act.

to prove someone violated the Espionage Act, you don’t actually prove they were refusing to return classified information; you prove they had what is called “National Defense Information.” Even if Trump claimed to have declassified the documents, if the Agency in question (here, likely DOD or DOE) still believed the information to be classified and still treated as such, it could still qualify as NDI. But ultimately, a jury gets to decide whether something is NDI or not.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/08/12/the-legal-and-political-significance-of-nuclear-documents-trump-is-suspected-to-have-stolen/

[CousinIT]

5. Good info. Thank you! n/t

[NickB79]

8. And Trump is the one who increased the penalties on that!

Hoisted by his own petard.

[SheltieLover]

6. Lock. The. Slob. Up!

[jmowreader]

7. TS-SCI is a complicated beast

SCI means Sensitive Compartmented Information. This is the REALLY secret shit.

What makes a document “more classified” than another is the number of people read on to a compartment.

So, we have two documents. One of them is a report about…something…that is classified TS and is in a compartment with 20,000 indoctrinated members. The other is classified Confidential and is in a compartment with 200 members. Because fewer people have access to the Confidential document it’s more highly classified than the TS one.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

9. Not to mention cryptography and communication security

Then there's processes such as SSBI and yankee white.


I'm overdue to reread my acronym collection.