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That are operating around the world. if that information gets out, they could be targeted, they could be jailed, they could be killed. yes, this is extremely sensitive information in many different realms. >> you've handled this information, peter. this is -- can you imagine a post-it note here, a calendar here, and then classified and this highly sensitive material there? >> no, not at all. when you start talking about top secret information and sensitive compartmented information, hcs, human control system, which is dealing with human sources at a level where you might not only know what the...

These caveats mean. a point i would add is they are not mutually exclusive. so i would suspect that some of these documents at least, which is typical, particularly with hcs, human intelligence control system, could also be orcon and noforn which emphasizes the sensitivity and potential profound damage that could accrue if these are not protected, which they weren't, and if they are exposed. of course in the case of human control system, that is designed to protect assets that we have recruited overseas who are risking their very lives to provide u.s. government information. not only does that...

System, the human control system, and it basically governs how it is that the u.s. government tries to protect human sources. top secret sci information is more technical collection, but again these are things that the government works years and years and years to develop these sources of information. and the fact that it's handled so loosely and inappropriately in a non-classified type of way that we had at mar-a-lago, it's a significant question with regard to how badly u.s. national security has been compromised. amara? >> so nick, this is an on going, active investigation which has been em...

Profound concerns about who had access to these documents, where were they, and were they exposed to anyone who didn't understand the import of them and didn't protect them. so there is an audit trail that needs to be run and i'm sure is being run about the whereabouts of these documents from the time they left the white house and who potentially had access to them. one other point i want to make, fredricka, is the -- it refers to the earlier explanation of what the alphabet soup caveats mean. they are not mutually exclusive. so typically, and this is true in the case of documents marked human...

Intelligence information derived from clandestine human sources. i'm ready from the affidavit -- the hcs control system protects human intelligence-derived information, capabilities, techniques, processes, and procedures. i mean, you don't have to watch "homeland" to know how incredibly important this is and how important it is to protect these sources overseas, their safety especially, considering the position they're putting themselves in. >> in english, it means it's a report from a cia officer about his or her conversations and debriefings of a spy. super sensitive stuff. it may not have t...