Stay updated with breaking news from Special Access Programs. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
The FBI's unannounced search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort has divided the Republican Party, as some heap criticism on the DOJ while others caution their voters to wait for all the facts to come out.
Then there is something above top secret, which is compartmented, or special access. it's thin, for me, for nerds with regard to -- the highest you can go's top secret. but maybe compartments within top secret when special access programs, they have to get right into. i, during my fbi career, was read in an out of certain special access programs. i had situations where i had to be polygraphed into a program and polygraph out of a program. that's how sensitive they are. they often involve sources and methods, techniques and technologies, human beings that might even be killed if the information...
Because these are viewed -- these documents that the government believes were taken, you know, were being stored improperly at mar-a-lago are so sensitive, they're tssci, they are things that are classified as special access programs. we know for a fact that at least some of the documents that were taken from the -- from mar-a-lago were in that category. these are again the most closely-guarded secrets. even if you have top secret clearance, you need additional reason to be able to get access to these things. so things like nuclear weapons programs, things like some of our signals intelligence...
To walk us through what those different labels mean. and what we can glean from this list. >> there's three classifications in the united states government as you have on your screen. confidential, secret, and top secret. but there are also other controls -- additional controls. that's where the as sihai comes, then sensitive compartment information. it can come from mickelson colleges, it could be from satellite intelligence, but whatever it is, it's a special program. and they will refer to these are special access programs. or sacks. the point is we are protecting more than anything is the ...
Documents that were labelled as top secret sci and that is always the concern for the government for these documents which should never leave the premises of the secure place of the united states government ending up at his home in palm beach. >> and as it pertains to the sci documents, top secret, could those things be declassified by a president and taken like he has? >> well that is what he's saying. he says that i de classified them. it is a little more complicated than that. we have to focus on what exactly are the types of documents that we're talking about. we know, fredricka, from our ...