there are frankly even more questions. and we re going to get into some of those tonight. this afternoon a federal judge ordering the unsealing of the warrant that authorized that search. and a list of what the investigators removed, allah, the receipt. now the warrant identifies three federal crimes the doj is looking into as part of a criminal investigation, including possible violations of the espionage act, obstruction of justice, and criminal handling of government records. let s be clear, no one has been charged with any of these crimes at this point, and we don t have any indication it s actually forthcoming. what we do know is that investigators removed 11 sets of classified documents from mar-a-lago, which of course is the home of the former president of the united states, donald trump, in florida. now, those unsealed documents, they show that investigators seized one set of documents marked top secret sci. what does the sci stand for? sensitive compartmented informa
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sensitive compartmentalized information. this is information that, if released publicly, top secret information would cause exceptionally grave harm to the united states. that s at least one class of the documents that we re talking about here. and there are others that are slightly lower classification level than that. all three crimes sort of float around this idea of the mishandling, sharing, copying, perhaps distributing, perhaps making available to other people. we don t know because we haven t seen the affidavits yet. just looking at what the crimes might be, that s why they re sniffing around a little bit. where does the tent come in on this? i have no idea. i declassified some aspects of it. it s not just a form you have to declassify. it s the information itself. we have to have a track record or paper that says that was done. we don t have that yet. yeah. and it s going to depend on the statute. the espionage statute, the one
mishandling and improper keeping of government documents at a high classification level, right? so, think about when we talk about things that you used the term sci, secure sensitive compartmentalized information. this is information that, if released publicly, top secret information would cause exceptionally grave harm to the united states. that s at least one class of the documents that we re talking about here. and there are others that are slightly lower classification level than that. all three crimes sort of float around this idea of the mishandling, sharing, copying, perhaps distributing, perhaps making available to other people. we don t know because we haven t seen the affidavits yet. just looking at what the crimes might be, that s why they re sniffing around a little bit. where does intent come into this? could you say i had no idea, or to evan s point, i declassified some aspects of it. obviously, it s not just the form you have to declassify,
certainly. and, you know, again, i go back to how appalling this whole situation is, given the apparent lack of security that was applied at mar-a-lago and the which is kind of a semipublic facility and people in and out of there all the time. so, you have to wonder, that information or what else might have been compromised. one other point i want to make, laura, about, you know, the president s authority to summarily declassify. there has been reporting from one outlet about the potential presence of nuclear-related material in those holdings. nuclear material is governed by a different set of laws starting with the atomic energy act, i think, of 1946. it s very, very restrictive.