(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . What the Hell do all those Classification Codes mean? [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-06-17 X — used here to denote a compartment that is redacted in the document. REL FVEY — information relating to and shared with FIVE EYES partners; namely the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. NF: NOFORN — for distribution within the United States only, and not to foreign governments. — — Just some follow-up chores. This was on my “To Do List” ever-since doing that “breaking-news” live blog of the Unsealed Trump Indictment, about a week ago: What the hell do all those Classification Codes mean? And what can we decipher about the Documents illegally kept, reckless stowed, and shuttled across the country? The document outlines criminal charges related to the over 100 classified documents federal agents recovered from Trump’s Florida resort last August. www.nbcnews.com/... s3.documentcloud.org [pg 28- 33] [...] TRUMP, without authorization, retained at the Mar-a-Lago Club documents related to the national defense, including the following [All in violation of Title 18, United State Code, Section 793(e).]: Count Date of Offense / Classification Marking / Document Description Lawfareblog.com has done the work of transcribing the 31 counts pertaining to these national defense secrets, from the image file into more readable and copy-able text: [TS//NF//SPECIAL HANDLING] Document dated May 3, 2018, concerning White House intelligence briefing related to various foreign countries [TS//SI//NF//SPECIAL HANDLING] Document dated May 9, 2018, concerning White House intelligence briefing related to various foreign countries. [TS//SI//NF//FISA] Undated document concerning military capabilities of a foreign country and the United States, with handwritten annotation in black marker [TS//SPECIAL HANDLING] Document dated May 6, 2019, concerning White House intelligence briefing related to foreign countries, including military activities and planning of foreign countries. [TS//XX/XX//ORCON//NF] Document dated June 2020, concerning nuclear capabilities of a foreign country [TS//SPECIAL HANDLING] Document dated June 4, 2020, concerning White House intelligence briefing related to various foreign countries [S//NF] Document dated October 21, 2018, concerning communications with a leader of a foreign country. [S//REL FVEY] Document dated October 4, 2019, concerning military capabilities of a foreign country. [TS//XX/X//ORCON/NF/FISA] Undated document concerning military attacks by a foreign country [TS//TK//NF] Document dated November 2017, concerning military capabilities of a foreign country [S//REL FVEY] Undated document concerning military contingency planning of the United States [S//REL FVEY] Paged of undated document concerning projected regional military capabilities of a foreign country and the United States [TS//SI/TK//NF] Undated document concerning military capabilities of a foreign country and the United States [S//ORCON/NF] Document dated January 2020, concerning military options of a foreign country and potential effects on United States interests [S//ORCON/NF] Document dated February 2020 concerning policies in a foreign country [S//ORCON//NF] Document dated December 2019, concerning foreign country support of terrorist acts against United States interests [TS//X/TK/ORCON/IMCON/NF] Document dated January 2020 concerning military capabilities of a foreign country [S//NF] Document dated March 2020 concerning military operations against United States forces and others [S/FRD] Undated document concerning nuclear weaponry of the United States [TS//XX/ORCON//NF] Undated document concerning timeline and details of attack in a foreign country [S//NF] Undated document concerning military capabilities of foreign countries [TS//X/RSEN/ORCON//NF] Document dated August 2019, concerning military activity of a foreign country [TS//SPECIAL HANDLING] Document dated August 30, 2019, concerning White House intelligence briefing related to various foreign countries, with handwritten annotation in black marker [TS//HCS-P/SI//ORCON-USGOV/NF] Undated document concerning military activity of a foreign country [TS//HCS-P/SI//ORCON-USGOV/NF] Document dated October 24, 2019, concerning military activity of foreign countries and the United States [TS//X//ORCON//NF/FISA] Document dated November 7, 2019, concerning military activity of foreign countries and the United States [TS//SI/TK//NF] Document dated November 2019, concerning military activity of foreign countries [TS//SPECIAL HANDLING] Document dated October 18, 2019, concerning White House intelligence briefing related to various foreign countries [TS//X/SI/TK//ORCON/NF] Document dated October 18, 2019, concerning military capabilities of a foreign country [TS//X/ORCON/NF/FISA] Document dated October 15, 2019, concerning military activity in a foreign country [TS//SI/TK//NF] Document dated February 2017, concerning military activity of a foreign country Lawfareblog.com has also provided a “decoder key” for all those cryptic classification markings: Classification guide/Key: TS: TOP SECRET S: SECRET NF: NOFORN — for distribution within the United States only, and not to foreign governments REL FVEY — information relating to and shared with FIVE EYES partners; namely the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. TK - TALENT KEYHOLE, a compartment that merged from TALENT (imagery product from sensitive manned overflight) and KEYHOLE (imagery from satellite). The combined compartment covers overhead imagery. The existence of the compartment is now unclassified. SI — Special Intelligence; generally collected signals intelligence and communications intelligence. FISA — Information relating to, or collected under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and which carries additional handling sensitivity because of it. ORCON — Originator Controlled - a handling caveat specifying that the originator (or originating agency) must be consulted prior to further sharing and/or release of the document. HCS-P — HUMINT (Human-source derived intelligence) Control System (Product). Used to mark analysis and intelligence reporting whose ultimate information providence includes covert human sources. X — used here to denote a compartment that is redacted in the document. FRD — Formerly Restricted Data. A classification category for nuclear secrets under the Atomic Energy Act. See Document #19 section below. Lawfareblog.com has also hazarded some very-educated guesses concerning the who, what, why, and how, for several of the national defense secrets, kept by Trump without authorization. Here is one very important example: Document #19: US Nuclear Capability [S/FRD] Undated document concerning nuclear weaponry of the United States Ordinarily, classified documents fall within the purview of the Executive Branch to classify or declassify. You may, for example, have heard that the President can declassify any document. This is usually true, because most classifications inside the US government track their authority back to the President’s Article II powers as Commander in Chief (or Foreign Affairs), and in both cases are regulated by Executive Order 13526 and its predecessors. Classification crimes are proscribed by statute (as National Defense Information), but usually the definition of National Defense Information will lean on the Executive Branch’s definitions, as defined in the Executive Order. Not so with nuclear documents. Classification of these documents is by statute, not by EO 13526 or its predecessors. Specifically, these are classified directly via the Atomic Energy Act. [...] But critically: the process must occur for the document to be declassified. It is not “at will” declassification by the President. This is a really big deal, not just because of what it contains, but because it resolves a nasty question about classification EOs and the extent to which they bind upwards as well as downwards in the executive branch heirarchy. Here, document 19 side-steps the question. This document is classified by statute. They breakdown several other of the Documents — unlawfully kept and hidden by Trump — in similar educated manner. 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