ndi, meaning national defense information. let s get to jessica schneider. the biggest revelations from this redacted affidavit? so, a lot of intricate and quite frankly startling details about the hundreds of pages of documents that the national archives worked for months to get back from mar-a-lago. so, most of this 37-page affidavit addresses the 15 boxes of material they finally got back in january of this year. 14 of those 15 boxes contained classified information. here s how it is broken down. 184 unique documents bearing classification markings, 67 of those marked confidential, 92 marked secret. 25 marked top secret. particularly alarming to the intelligence experts we ve been hearing from is there were, in fact, hcs markings on some of these documents, meaning that s information actually greened from human sources, that if that
marked confidential, 92 marked secret, and 25 marked top-secret. prosecutors said of most significant concern was that highly classified records were unfolded, intermixed with other records, and otherwise unproperly identified. plus, some documents had hcs markings, particularly alarming to intelligence experts. hcs stuff basically means that there s information in those boxes in the basement of mar-a-lago that pertain to or possibly came from human sources. they usually get imprisoned and they re oftentimes simply executed. that type of information is just incredibly sensitive. reporter: the justice department redacting papages of information from the affidavit, in order to protect witness information skpoer key details from the ongoing criminal investigation into classified material at mar-a-lago. in particular, prosecutors writing in their legal memo to the judge, information in the affidavit could be used to identify many if not all of these witnesses.