- At the heart of Trump’s indictment are some 31 classified documents.
- Prosecutor descriptions and classification marks tell a lot about what Trump was hiding.
- But some documents were so sensitive that even the classification was redacted.
Former President Donald Trump kept more than just secret records. According to the indictment, he had hidden what he believed to be select memorabilia, including classified foreign maps, high-resolution images believed to be from U.S. spy satellites, and even more sensitive material related to nuclear secrets. It is said that
There are 31 confidential documents recovered by FBI agents, the epicenter of the incident. The federal indictment alleges that President Trump “intentionally” kept these documents and did not return them to the government after his presidency ended.
Trump claims he has a legal right to keep those records through the Presidential Records Act, which says that administration documents belong to the government. exception For personal notes and diaries.
The accusation documents summarize each document without revealing its secrets, and also include classification marks that give clues as to how each record was collected and who can see it.
However, some of these documents are so sensitive that even the classification marks have been redacted.
For example, the fifth document cited by the prosecutor’s office is classified and has two additional rules. One is that it cannot be shared with US allies (NORFORN), and the other is that the originating agency reveals espionage techniques sufficient to restrict further dissemination (ORCON). However, two of his other access codes were redacted by prosecutors shortly after the Top Secret classification level. All we can infer is what we can derive from the description “Documents on Foreign Nuclear Capabilities dated June 2020.”
Federal prosecutors have listed 31 highly classified documents recovered through the FBI’s August 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago.
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These classification marks have been removed in the other seven listed documents. Such sensitive information can be so harmful that only officials, military personnel, and contractors with a need to know who have the appropriate level of authorization should view them, and only if so. ) in a secure vault known as .
The SCIF system is not foolproof.
In a recent Discord leak, an airman serving on the aircraft was accused of printing and copying the equivalent of hundreds of classified files and smuggling them out to share with fellow gamers.
Nonetheless, SCIF is the authorized space to view these, including the banquet hall, storage area and shower room where President Trump allegedly kept confidential documents at his private Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. is much safer than
Prosecutors say Mar-a-Lago is not an authorized area to view these secrets, putting them at risk of inadvertent discovery by the club’s thousands of visitors and by foreign spies. are doing.
Photographs of documents recovered in Mar-a-Lago show the cover of “TOP SECRET”.
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Despite being redacted, we can still glean a lot about what Trump kept.
Many items are from the presidential conference. There are also many files based on signal intelligence, called SI, with techniques ranging from means such as electronic eavesdropping to the detection of foreign missiles and radars.
Many of them are marked TK, an abbreviation for TALENT KEYHOLE, a generic term for satellite-based intelligence that includes high-resolution imagery. Others are coded HCS-P. This is a categorization mark intended to protect information whose disclosure could compromise espionage or endanger the life of the spy collecting the information.