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Learn about the US government classification system established by Executive Order 13526, issued by President Obama in 2009. Find out the levels, categories, and laws of classified information, and how they affect national security and democracy.
Learn about the different levels of classified information and how they are determined by governments. Top secret is the highest level that would cause "exceptionally grave damage" to national security, while unclassified is the lowest level that does not require any special protection.
Q Clearance is a security clearance issued by the Department of Energy that allows access to classified information up to and including TOP SECRET data with the special designation: Restricted Data (TS//RD). Learn more about the different security clearance levels, designations, and investigations in the U.S. government.
SCI stands for sensitive compartmented information, a type of US classified information that involves or derives from sensitive intelligence sources, methods, or analytical processes. SCI is not a classification, but a control system that requires special access and clearance, and is divided into several compartments and sub-compartments with codewords.
Learn about the incidents in which Trump revealed classified information to foreign powers and private individuals, sometimes with security and diplomatic consequences. Find out how Trump handled and destroyed U.S. government records, and the legal and political implications of his actions.
Young National Guardsman Jack Teixeira had a top-secret security clearance and access to documents meant for Pentagon leaders, raising questions in and outside government.
The details of the invasion plan were so secret, adherence to the list was rigidly enforced. U.S. military advisor George Elsey tells a story in his memoirs about how a junior officer turned away King George VI from the intelligence centre on the USS Ancon , because, as he explained to a superior officer "...nobody told me he was a Bigot."
In October 2017, more than 2.8 million people had security clearances — more than 1.6 million of them had confidential or secret clearance, and nearly 1.2 million had access to top secret ...