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Markings, like a c i, which is compartmentalize information, or hcs, signifying human information collected by human assets of intelligence agency, most likely the cia. >> lets hit that one right there, which we highlighted, secrecy eye, which is special compartmentalize information, hcs which is some kind of human intelligence. what is the pbs idk? >> those are other compartments. honestly, i dont remember what p is. as i typically spends four signal intelligence. another department, decades ag...

You hear a lot about that. that is certainly true in the case of human intelligence. we dont want our spies executed in foreign countries where they are working with this the methodologies by which we collect other information, that is very important. there is more than that. we are talking about protecting national security. we are talking about things like protecting troops in the field. for example, remember the raid against osama bin laden again during the obama administration? what if that ...

I mean, he basically stole documents, and i say stole, that are top secret. no private citizen has authorization to do that. so its illegal. when the former president had them mar-a-lago, he was a private citizen. theres a legal question. theres a national security question. anybody could go into that room. it could be the pillow guy looking at those top secret documents that contain nuclear information and weve got to assess that in the congress and the intelligence committee, have some of our ...

Special master is appointed or not, it will be just a step. im not sure that any of the lawyers can today or after a ruling is made, whether anybody can really claim victory. this is an ongoing process and while the department of justice doesnt want to see a special master, they will continue on with what they are doing on their investigation in this case of top secret and above documents. its important to note a lot of people are wondering this is a bunch of papers, there may be important infor...

That the president united states interests in getting these documents and not giving them back to trump, they make that clear in the filing, that he has no claim to them, no right to them, and even if there is some arguable privilege that they are talking about, that it is overwhelmed by the national security implications of giving anything or any legal injunction to the trump people, is because right now that disclosure, that national security information and its quantity, which we didnt have a...

Delay. in the context of national security, does that potentially offer some harm if this is stretched out over days, weeks, months as theyre looking through these documents determining what the fbi, what the doj can look at? >> there are two elements of national security harm here. one is the actual information that sat relatively unsecured at the ex-presidents property for an extended period of time, actually, three potential points of harm. there was that one, okay, which is what this case is...

About what we were seeing donald trump, true thing out on his social media platform thats failing. he was basically just freaking out all day, and the reason is this evidence. this evidence shows, he is guilty as sin. he did this. >> evan -- >> he did these documents, he had the lawyers lie about it. its incredible. >> evan, i understand you wanna point something out quickly. >> yeah, don, look, the photograph that we keep showing is, these are documents that are recovered from, according to thi...

Example, i would have been fired and prosecuted. just to see this volume of classified information there is staggering and ill add that im very shocked that trump continues to stick by this declassification defense of his which doesnt have merit, but even so, these are documents that you can tell from the covers are derived from human intelligence, theyre compartmentalized information, why would you declassify that? those documents can put people in danger so it actually raises more questions th...

Dont belong to him anyway and the sensitivity of these documents are so high. were even learning that some of these documents we can tell just by the classifications of these that they could out very sensitive information, including human intelligence sources for u.s. intelligence placed around the world in dangerous situations. and if those names got out, those placements got out, that could not only put their lives in danger, it could also seriously harm american national security interests. t...

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