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It leads, unsurprisingly, to a lack of trust.

Cleared to move them and then stored in a way that comports with, in this case, not just confidential, not to secret, not just top secret, not just sensitive, compartmented information. but human control systems that go to actual human sources overseas. special access programs that are limited to a handful of people who have a need to know. and for all intents and purposes, as best as the investigators have laid out in their documents, it looked like these boxes were packed up in the white house...

Coin is it also could reveal what we dont know, which then could serve to reinforce on the part of that nation what theyre doing to continue to mask information and prevent us from gaining insight into their nuclear capabilities. so, on several levels, this is potentially quite damaging in my opinion. >> and andrew, once national security officials became aware that something of this magnitude was included in these documents -- again, if "the washington post" reporting is correct -- what steps w...

The agents on the search warrant lacks the necessary access to those special access programs to actually review the documents. these things are so limited in their distribution to people with, not just top secret, but sci access and special access program authorities that youre going to have to search to find the right people to dig into these documents to conduct this sort of assessment to understand, like, what have we lost here? whats the worst-case scenario, in terms of these documents falli...

Key, basically sounds like there is a person outside the door of that lock and key, thats a lock that its as a heavier kind of security on a document ats exist. >> right, the whole point of the special actors programs and especially these tightly held special access programs, is that people dont lose track of anything, ever. obviously the system of native human so mistakes can happen, and even bad behavior can happen sometimes, but the whole system is designed not to have any what they call ike,...

Know basis, not just top secret clearance. some special access programs can have as few as a couple dozen government personnel authorized to know of an operations existence. records that deal with such programs are kept under lock and key, almost always in a secure compartmented information facility, with a designated control officer to keep careful tabs on their location. but sex documents were stored at mar-a-lago, with uncertain security, more than 18 months after trump left the white house. ...

Of the records are records that they cannot look at. they dont have the classification, and that includes some of the senior most national security officials in the country. there are in some instances for the special access programs, and i am not speaking specifically of records seized at mar-a-lago, but the category of special access program, super, super secret, as few as a dozen people can be read into the programs. the president or a cabinet level official, someone near to a cabinet officia...

Sources that we have have not provided that information about the senior most officials, and the process by which they looked at this material. but i would guess, a big guess, that somebody had to be deputize and multiple people had to be authorized and were given the need to know authorization and read into the special access programs so that they could review the documents, as part of an ongoing and increasingly more alarming criminal investigation. >> carol leonnig, washington post national i...

They dont have the classification, and that includes some of the senior most national security officials in the country. there are in some instances for the special access programs, and i am not speaking specifically of records seized at mar-a-lago, but the category of special access program, super, super secret, as few as a dozen people can be read into the programs. the president or a cabinet level official, someone near to a cabinet official, as to approve someone being read into review the r...