That job requires access to TOP SECRET, compartmented, extremely sensitive intel.
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This week, Republicans stormed a sensitive compartmented information facility in a show of… something?
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Brand knows little about fellow cell members: Their true names and professions are compartmented.
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Then he was granted a Top Secret clearance with access to sensitive compartmented information.
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The EPA already has a dedicated Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility elsewhere in the headquarters building.
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Lankford said the manuscript could be viewed in the Senate's sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF).
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Some of the signs were slid into their own designated hard-sided, compartmented carrying cases.
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For now, lawmakers can only review the material in a secure Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.
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Most avid news consumers have now heard of a sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIF.
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I have been in the [sensitive compartmented information facility] room for many of these witness depositions.
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"This is actually not a SCIF," Pruitt said, using the acronym for Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities.
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The Republicans in the committee SCIF — short for a sensitive compartmented information facility -- left around 2 p.m.
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The protest took place inside what's known as a SCIF — an acronym for sensitive compartmented information facility.
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Sheryl, you watched the Republicans storm the SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) where witnesses are being interviewed.
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One floor of the building is a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, a secure area that blocks surveillance.
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Every review of the document upheld a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) classification for it.
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The Situation Room is a "sensitive compartmented information facility" where phones are barred for obvious security reasons.
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Scores of Republicans have since viewed the document in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility on Capitol Hill.
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All hold the highest-level clearance, issued by the director of national intelligence: Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information.
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By keeping the manuscript in Congress's sensitive compartmented information facility, senators can read it before it's fully declassified.
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Participants were summoned to a secure room, called a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, for a briefing and working session.
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At a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) at Mar-a-Lago, the Florida resort Trump frequents, according to Spicer.
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This standard NDA delineates the conditions and prohibitions of disclosing, storing and maintaining classified and sensitive compartmented information (SCI).
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The House Intelligence Committee makes frequent use of a secure facility in the Capitol — the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.
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ET in the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility in the basement of the Capitol Visitors Center, the senator told CNN.
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It is currently only available to House members in a classified briefing room called a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.
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A secure communications room -- known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, of SCIF -- has been assembled on the grounds.
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They also noted the E.P.A. already has two other areas, known as Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities, for receiving classified information.
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After quickly eating dinner for breakfast, she walked to a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF, to report for duty.
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Last week, Kelly busted Kushner down from a "top secret/sensitive compartmented information" interim clearance to a merely "secret" one.
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Such a widespread fabrication would require a highly organized and compartmented campaign to deceive multiple media outlets while evading our detection.
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Clinton kept her BlackBerry in her desk drawer in the secure area, a so-called Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF.
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Baker was not interviewed in a "SCIF" — a "sensitive compartmented information facility" routinely used to discuss super-secret, highly sensitive information.
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And the EPA already has a sensitive compartmented information facility to handle classified information on a different floor of its headquarters.
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On October 23, a gaggle of House Republicans, led by Matt Gaetz of Florida, stormed the Capitol's Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.
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People with Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance are allowed to view material so secret it can only be viewed in secure rooms.
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A sensitive compartmented information facility is a secured place where sensitive information can be viewed and discussed without the risk of spying.
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Her office was in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), and thus the use of mobile devices in the office was prohibited.
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Most of the meeting room space is a secured Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or a SCIF, so cell phones won't function inside.
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Specifically, it is being used in mood-tracking within the base's SCIFs (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities), where the primary operations are conducted.
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The material is designated classified so it will need to be reviewed by congressional officials in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF.
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The Washington Post says Kushner still doesn't have that SCI clearance — which stands for sensitive compartmented information — which is granted by the CIA.
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Robin Townley, the senior Africa director on the NSC, learned on Friday that the CIA had denied his "Sensitive Compartmented Information" security clearance.
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Intelligence veterans slammed House Republicans for barging into a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility in Congress on Wednesday during a closed-door impeachment hearing.
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A White House official also told CNN that the Situation Room is a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility and electronic devices are prohibited there.
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If there isn't national defense information or classified involved, merely recording...in a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) is merely a security violation.
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Cellphones, laptops and other electronics devices are not allowed in facilities, known as sensitive compartmented information facilities, that house the highly classified documents.
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It is currently in a vault, in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility -- or SCIF, if you'd like to use the Washington short hand.
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Some others had been approved for permanent access to top secret information but were still working off interim access to Sensitive Compartmented Information.
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In fact dozens of House Republicans were eligible to access the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility during the impeachment investigation, and some did attend.
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He never received a higher-level designation that would have given him access to need-to-know intelligence known as sensitive compartmented information.
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Jordan, whose committee is involved in the impeachment inquiry, joined the protest of Republicans who broke into the SCIF (sensitive compartmented information facility) Wednesday.
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The Intelligence Committee's Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, better known as SCIF, is supposed to be one of the last secure enclaves on Capitol Hill.
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It is unlike political theater — press hits, speeches, storming a "sensitive compartmented information facility" at the Capitol — which politicians use to sway public opinion.
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Emails were limited to "Mahogany Row" because it's a designated Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, with heightened digital security, and no wireless devices allowed inside.
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The room, known elsewhere in government as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility or SCIF, is typically used for reading and meetings involving classified information.
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Senators have been filing into and out of the secure compartmented information facility in the Capitol Visitor Center to view the report Thursday morning.
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Aides who previously operated on "top secret/sensitive compartmented information" interim clearances saw their access changed to "secret," a classification for less sensitive material.
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The protection of such information, including sources and methods, is the very reason such briefings are held in a Sensitive Compartmented Intelligence Facility (SCIF).
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Still for Kushner, in his position, there are at least three downsides not to having access to top secret intelligence or sensitive compartmented information.
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Maybe, like them, we live in a compartmented world where the rot of one cell can remain ignored by the other cells around it.
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Entering the suite, known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF, requires a classified individual code, and no personal electronics are allowed inside.
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Kushner, for example, did not get sensitive compartmented information clearance (SCI) from the CIA despite being approved by Kline, according to The Washington Post.
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The lawmakers entered the secure room, a SCIF -- sensitive compartmented information facility -- where the closed hearings are taking place and where cellphones are not allowed.
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In doing highly classified work for government agencies, some contracts require the use of particular types of units called Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities, or SCIFs.
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This is why presidents normally have sensitive conversations in Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities — essentially high-tech tents that ensure no listening devices are within earshot.
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It's not even a given that they are "cleared" for discussions about JSOC's operations, which are among the most tightly "compartmented" of the United States' secrets.
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House Republicans successfully delayed a deposition after storming the sensitive compartmented information facility last Wednesday in protest of the way Democrats have conducted the impeachment process.
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Questions are now being asked about how Newman was able to get a recording device into a secure Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, know as a SCIF.
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Va)—the top two members of the Senate Intelligence Committee—in a secure room in the Senate basement, known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).
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Many Republican lawmakers reportedly tweeted from inside the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility or SCIF — a classified area where cellphones are not allowed, The Daily Beast reported.
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A number of Senate Democrats on Thursday morning were seen at the Capitol building entering a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF, to review the document.
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Sensitive compartmented information (SCI), which is among the most closely guarded material in the government's hands, includes information directly from U.S. spies based in foreign countries.
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As a very senior official, Kushner was seeking an even higher designation that would grant him access to what is known as "sensitive compartmented information," or SCI.
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Napolitano's comments come the day after GOP House lawmakers stormed the sensitive compartmented information facility where a deposition was being held in protest of the impeachment proceedings.
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The chamber that they had entered, known as a "Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility," or SCIF, is designed to allow people to discuss and work on classified information.
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A committee official told CNN that the House Republicans violated House deposition rules by entering the secure room, known as the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF.
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That area, known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), is designed to securely store intelligence and make it harder for foreign spies to obtain its secrets.
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Also, to be fair, small and compartmented cells are extremely difficult to penetrate when they are comprised of a very close-knit group of people, McFadden said.
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The offices are considered a "sensitive compartmented information facility," secure and safe for classified material and therefore without personal electronics, which must be deposited in small lockers.
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In the House of Representatives, another set was being viewed in a "Secure Compartmented Information Facility," an aide with the House Oversight and Government Reform committee said.
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House Republicans protested the process of the impeachment inquiry last week by barging into a sensitive compartmented information facility where testimony for the inquiry was scheduled to occur.
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For example, Republicans, lacking proper clearances, delayed an official's deposition by storming a secure room -- a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) -- where a deposition was scheduled in October.
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McGahn had been approved for permanent access to top secret information by November, but was still working off interim access to Sensitive Compartmented Information, according to the information.
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"SAP terminology is not usually used in intelligence agencies, which revolve around intelligence compartments, as in 'sensitive compartmented information,' or what they call 'controlled access programs,'" Aftergood said.
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Kerry also called for allowing investigators to "do their work appropriately" days after a group of Republican lawmakers entered a secure room known as a sensitive compartmented information facility.
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Sources told The Post that Kushner was only granted a clearance with "top secret" status and has not yet been permitted to view "sensitive compartmented information," known as SCI.
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The Republicans entered the room, known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, during the testimony of Laura Cooper, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia.
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During his active-duty service and work for the NSA, Hale held a top-secret security clearance for sensitive compartmented information, granting him access to classified national defense information.
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Though the base is known for conspiracy theories about it housing aliens, in reality it's a United States Air Force base that works on "Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information."
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Stone's team does not have a copy, Smith said, though Stone's lawyers are allowed to view it in a secure room known as a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility).
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This time the threat is non-kinetic and instead of a compartmented and siloed federal bureaucracy, we have a gaping information-sharing divide between our public and private sectors.
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A nervous frustrated wreck because of the nature of your work and can't talk to anybody outside of the agency about it because it's top secret/sensitive compartmented information material?
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Sharing highly compartmented, classified information with Russians is a theatrical distraction from the greater good of polluting streams, enabling predatory financial practices, cutting taxes, and taking people's health care away.
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Last week, for example, a group of Republican lawmakers stormed the Capitol's Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) in an effort to thwart impeachment proceedings and the testimony of a witness.
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Committee members and Comey spent nearly three hours Friday afternoon in a secure room in the Senate basement used for classified briefings, known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).
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For access to what is called Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), that is done by one or more of the intelligence agencies, and usually it's the CIA with the White House.
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"John is well-meaning but would be the exact type of person who would come up with the idea to stick this into a compartmented system," the former official said.
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"I've noticed a trend — I've watched as more and more of these documents I'm reading in the [Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility] don't have information that compromises sources and methods," he said.
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These are not natural acts for a hierarchical and compartmented institution, so Congress must set aside its turf-oriented committee structure and use its power of the purse to encourage them.
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Sanders said such briefings are typically held at the Capitol in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) room, which is a specially and securely designed room for highly classified congressional briefings.
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From the Pentagon, with a Top Secret clearance, Sensitive Compartmented Information access, and a need to know, I continually requested from State Department the "highly classified information" they claimed to possess.
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Members of the House and Senate Intelligence committees as well as members of leadership were spotted heading in and out of the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility as they reviewed the complaint.
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When presidents are away from the White House, they often conduct important business in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF, a location that can be made temporarily impervious to eavesdropping.
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A SCIF — a sensitive compartmented information facility — sounds fancy, but in reality are just rooms designed to be secure for sharing sensitive and secret information at the higher echelons of government secrecy.
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They complained loudly about the process, ordered pizza, and broke House rules by bringing cell phones into the secure room known as the SCIF (sensitive compartmented information facility) in a security breach.
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The booth, also known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), will be a customized model for Pruitt to conduct meetings, calls and other lines of communication undisturbed, according to the Post.
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The Washington Post reported that Pruitt's in-office sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) will likely cost $28503,22019 total to install, a stark increase from the $25,000 it initially reported back in September.
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The Washington Post reported that Pruitt's in-office sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) will likely cost $85033,000 total to install, a stark increase from the $25,000 it initially reported back in September.
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The Washington Post reported that Pruitt's in-office sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) will likely cost $43,000 total to install, a stark increase from the $25,000 it initially reported back in September.
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When Kline overruled the White House security analysts, Kushner's application was sent to the CIA for an even higher designation that would allow him to have access to "sensitive compartmented information," or SCI.
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Deputy press secretary Lindsay Walters told The Hill there are Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIFs) set up at the club and the hotel for Trump and his team to receive classified intelligence briefings.
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It also discontinues interim Top Secret or SCI-level (Sensitive Compartmented Information) clearances that have been pending since before June 2017 and limits access to highly-classified information for individuals with interim clearance.
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Under the new policy, anyone holding interim clearance to see top secret or sensitive compartmented information whose background investigation had been pending since then is to be stripped of that access by Friday.
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Even those White House aides granted access to the more secret system must have specific permission to read individual documents there, which are known as Sensitive Compartmented Information and organized by code words.
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Officials who held the position in previous administrations operated with what is known as a "Top Secret (TS)/ sensitive compartmented information (SCI) clearance" that affords access to top-secret and sensitive compartmentalized information.
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And he can no longer be present for discussions about information classified as top secret or sensitive compartmented information, and foreign officials could be unwilling to discuss highly classified intelligence they have collected.
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Some of the Republicans who barged into the hearing room were in possession of cellphones, a violation of the rules governing the sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF), where the depositions have been taking place.
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"If the level of your interim clearance is Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), the highest level, then you get to see the highest level information," notes former White House "ethics czar" Norman Eisen.
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The information indicates the President's daughter Ivanka and her husband Kushner, both serving as senior advisers, were operating with interim access to Top Secret information, as well as Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), in November.
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Republicans insist the briefing, which will be held in a secure room known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIFF, will be classified and therefore anything senators learn in it must be kept secret.
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The congressional briefing was given last summer in a secure room called a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF, to a group of congressional leaders informally known as the "Gang of Eight," the sources said.
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Without disclosing specific clients, he cited cases involving government employees penalized for bringing their cellphones into secured areas or making Skype calls from a specially designated room, known as a SCIF: Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.
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Pruitt has come under fire for building the booth when a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility that guards against electronic surveillance and suppresses data leakage of sensitive information is already available to him at EPA headquarters.
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Last week, the Washington Post broke the news that EPA is having a $24,29 super-spy phone booth — er, Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) — built in Pruitt's office, prompting a raft of Maxwell Smart jokes.
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Throughout the course of Thursday, lawmakers will have the chance to read the report in what's known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, also known as an SCIF, or a secure area of the Capitol.
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"We write to request that you review compliance by the Executive Office of the President (EOP) with policies and procedures governing security clearances and access to secure compartmented information (SCI)," they said in the letter.
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The Post reported in September that the EPA would spend nearly $25,000 to install a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) for Pruitt, despite there already being a SCIF in a separate area of the building.
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Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, failed to appreciate the spectacle in the sensitive compartmented information facility -- shorthanded on Capitol Hill to "SCIF" -- into which some lawmakers had plunged with insecure cellphones in contravention of the rules.
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The testimony room, known as a SCIF or sensitive compartmented information facility, had to be swept by Capitol police to make sure no electronics were left in the room after the GOP lawmakers violated its security.
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They frequently work out of a so-called SCIF, or sensitive compartmented information facility, tucked behind a set of glass doors in a long, second-floor hallway that overlooks the atrium in a Senate office building.
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Mar-a-Lago dinner: Spicer confirmed there's a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) at Mar-a-Lago and said that the photos of Trump discussing North Korea at dinner were actually of him discussing press logistics.
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The group caused a scene in the basement of the Capitol by storming in and occupying the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility that the committees were using to depose Laura Cooper, a deputy assistant secretary of defense.
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According to the DOJ press release, much of the material taken from Martin's residence and vehicle had markings indicating that it was classified information of the United States, including Top Secret and Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI).
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Moreover, Republican stunts in the House and Senate, like storming the House Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) and introducing meaningless, futile Senate resolutions denouncing activities in the House will not change the trajectory of this impeachment investigation.
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And the EPA is doing most of this in secret, with Pruitt going as far as to build a $25,000 secret phone booth at the agency's headquarters (a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF, in government-speak).
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But reporters had to leave their phones behind before entering the room — the Roosevelt Room is a sensitive compartmented information facility where officials can view classified information — so there was no recording or transcript of the proceedings.
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One source said White House director of media affairs Helen Aguirre Ferre explained that phones had to be kept out because the Roosevelt Room is a SCIF, or a sensitive compartmented information facility, where officials view classified information.
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Because officials routinely classify top secret documents with the marking "TS/SCI," which stands for "Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information," Mr. Wardle added a rule to Kaspersky's antivirus program to flag any documents that contained the "TS/SCI" marker.
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The lawyers said they gave up their cellphones and other electronic devices before being led into a Justice Department conference room in a restricted area known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), designed to ensure secret information stays secure.
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Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican known for his long history of made-for-TV antics, the band of about two dozen lawmakers entered the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), an area where members can review classified information and hold private hearings.
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Cellphones: Some of the Republicans who barged into the hearing room were in possession of cellphones, a violation of the rules governing the so-called sensitive compartmented information facility, known as the SCIF, where the depositions have been taking place.
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In the Intelligence Committee's Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility — a secure office in the basement of the Capitol Visitor Center where the committee does its work — there's a log that keeps track of all the classified materials members request to read.
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"I get that some of my colleagues want every single committee of Congress to look into the fact pattern," Gowdy said, adding that he interviewed more than 70 witnesses last year in what's known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.
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The fact that the recording exists is shocking; that it allegedly happened in the most secure room in the White House -- known as a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) -- would represent a violation of strict internal procedures prohibiting unsecure devices there.
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The House Ethics Committee sent a memo on Thursday to lawmakers, officers and staffers reminding members about etiquette and proper conduct that should be used in the sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) to ensure the security of sensitive and classified information.
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Kushner and several other White House aides were informed in a memo on Friday that their interim security clearances would be downgraded from top-secret/SCI-level (sensitive compartmented information) to secret level, according to a report from Politico on Tuesday.
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To protect those secrets from prying ears, the whole of the office suite in southwest Washington has been designated a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), U.S. spy speak for an area that has restrictions to ensure secret information stays secure.
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Kushner holds a Top Secret/sensitive compartmented information (SCI) security clearance, the highest level, which allows him to review some of the nation's most closely-guarded secrets and allows him access to the presidential daily briefing, according to the Post.
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GOP lawmakers who do not sit on the three committees leading the inquiry refused to leave the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility in the basement of the Capitol, prompting a standoff with Democrats that led the House sergeant-at-arms to intervene.
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The access of President Donald Trump's senior adviser Jared Kushner to top secret and sensitive compartmented information was -- for now, temporarily -- revoked amid a series of reforms to the security clearance process led by the White House chief of staff.
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Friday morning, the White House released a photo of President Donald Trump and his national security team being briefed on the missile strike against the Syrian regime at the Secure Compartmented Information Facility that's been assembled at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
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Of most consequence, Schiff began summoning current and former Trump-administration officials for closed-door depositions in the Intelligence Committee's Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) — a secure, bunkerlike office where the committee does its work, three floors below the Capitol Visitor Center.
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"In the email, Mr. Jackson directed EPA staff to identify proposed new office space in Tulsa that included a conference room, secure parking, would be able to accommodate 24/7 security, and included a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) for secure communications," Reps.
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"If their credit score goes below a certain level, they lose their clearance levels to operate at the highest level of the government, so (sensitive compartmented information) clearance and (top secret) clearances could be at jeopardy because of mounting debt," Wachrow said.
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She was trained in the Persian language Farsi and granted access to top-secret and "sensitive compartmented" national defense information that included the United States' foreign intelligence and counter intelligence operations and the true names of its intelligence agents and its sources overseas.
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Now we learn that McMaster has gone out of his way to enable his predecessor, the highly partisan, unmasker of Trump campaign workers, Susan Rice, to maintain her top level security clearance, which gives her access to Sensitive Compartmented Information, the government's best protected secrets.
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Matt Gaetz, forced their way into the hearing as Laura Cooper, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, was providing private testimony as part of the impeachment inquiry inside the House Intelligence Committee's Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), according to Axios.
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Meadows said he has only shared "broad characterizations" and is "not sharing specifics" of the testimony with the White House, pointing to House rules preventing him from disclosing details of the testimony, which are held in secure rooms called Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities, or SCIFs.
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If the appointee requires an even higher clearance (for example, managing sensitive materials within the National Security Council, or working directly with the president or vice president), they need not only Top Secret access but also a Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) level of access.
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And beyond that door, in a room encased in walls of reinforced concrete — the precise requirements for constructing a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility are detailed in 156-page technical compliance manual issued by the director of National Intelligence — sits the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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Other top officials, such as White House counsel Don McGahn and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, had long-term clearance for one intelligence level (top secret) but only interim clearances for what's called SCI, or sensitive compartmented information, which includes the president's daily intelligence briefing.
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The GOP raid put national security at risk Earlier on Wednesday, House Republicans barged into a secure area called a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, known as a SCIF, where the House Intelligence Committee was scheduled to hear a deposition as part of its Trump impeachment inquiry.
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" Under questioning, Pruitt admitted that the soundproof phone booth he had built in his office is not a sensitive compartmented information facility, and when asked why he didn't use the two SCIFs already installed at the EPA's headquarters, Pruitt said, "They aren't close to my office.
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In White House counsel Don McGahn's office, which also acts as a sensitive compartmented information facility, Yates told him later that day that White House officials were making statements "that we knew not to be the truth," she said in her May testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Because of their efforts to disrupt the hearing, Cooper's testimony was delayed for five hours and began at about 3 pm ET. Between the lines: Republicans reportedly took pictures inside the House Intelligence Committee's Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) — forcing police to conduct a sweep for possible security breaches. Rep.
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" Mooney accused Ocasio-Cortez of not supporting "Open and Transparent government" after she noted that many of the group of Republican representatives who disrupted a House deposition in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility were members of the committee and thus would know electronic devices were not allowed in the room. "Rep.
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"I have directed my staff to retrieve copies of the congressional study that remain with the Executive Branch agencies and, as the committee does with all classified and compartmented information, will enact the necessary measures to protect the sensitive sources and methods contained within the report," Burr said in a statement.
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A total of 46 House Republicans, including 12 who participated in the storming of the sensitive compartmented information facility, sit on one of those three committees and are able to participate in every step of the inquiry, but the resolution gives the minority party even more authority to question witnesses and drive the process.
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On a memo Dershowitz and Starr did not sign, the team has stated that the impeachment is rigged, have called Chairman Adam Schiff a liar and claimed much of the House impeachment inquiry was carried in out in secret in a basement (they mean the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility used by the House Intelligence Committee).
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Matt GaetzMatthew (Matt) GaetzGOP protest overshadows impeachment hearing The Memo: GOP schisms deepen as Trump impeachment pressure rises Buttigieg on Republican SCIF crash: 'This behavior is an embarrassment' MORE (R-Fla.), the GOP lawmakers gathered outside the sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) in the Capitol basement in protest of how Democrats have been conducting the probe.
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"While Director Haspel did not attend today's Yemen policy briefing, the agency has already briefed the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and congressional leadership on the totality of the compartmented, classified intelligence and will continue to provide updates on this important matter to policymakers and Congress," CIA Press Secretary Timothy Barrett said in a statement later Wednesday.
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Still, intelligence and national security experts called it "highly unusual" for these kinds of routine calls between world leaders to be placed into a system that's intended to be used only for information about the nation's most highly compartmented programs — for instance, covert actions like the secret raid in Pakistan that led to the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
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White House communications director Hope Hicks, whose role in drafting a misleading statement about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower has drawn Mueller's scrutiny, obtained a full Top Secret and sensitive compartmented information, or SCI, security clearances -- the highest levels of access -- in November or earlier, according to information obtained by CNN from a US government official.
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More than a dozen GOP lawmakers, including House Minority Whip Steve ScaliseStephen (Steve) Joseph ScaliseShimkus says he's reconsidering retirement Top Republicans say impeachment resolution is too little too late Shimkus says he's been asked to reconsider retirement MORE (R-La.), on Wednesday barged into the sensitive compartmented information facility, delaying the deposition of a top Defense Department official who was set to give a private testimony about Trump's dealings with Ukraine.
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As part of an effort to portray the process that resulted in Trump's impeachment and trial as a partisan witch hunt, Cipollone at one point complained that "not even [House Intelligence Committee chair and impeachment manager Adam] Schiff's Republican colleagues were allowed into the SCIF," or Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, which is basically the secure facility that members of Congress used to review classified information pertinent to the impeachment inquiry.
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Any secure facility, known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), could be used for the meeting, potentially the facilities located at Langley or Fort Meade, secure facilities well outside downtown DC.There are also ways to bring the whistleblower up to Capitol Hill without being seen by the press, including what one source described as the "Petraeus treatment" -- a reference to the former CIA Director and commander of US Central Command David Petraeus' private testimony from years back.
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Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump announces, endorses ambassador to Japan's Tennessee Senate bid Meet the key Senate player in GOP fight over Saudi Arabia Trump says he's 'very happy' some GOP senators have 'gone on to greener pastures' MORE (R-Tenn.) said he expects senators will be able to review the FBI report in the "secure compartmented information facility" in the Capitol Visitor Center, since the space is large enough to hold a large group of senators.
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On the first day of the Senate trial, White House lawyers called the charges against the president "ridiculous" by my count at least seven times and the White House counsel Pat Cipollone falsely claimed that during House proceedings, "not even Schiff's Republican colleagues were allowed into the S.C.I.F." (the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, a basement room in the Capitol where closed-door House committee sessions were held to get testimony in an earlier phase of the impeachment process).
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Gaetz calls for ethics investigation into Schiff Gaetz responds after #MattGaetzIsATool trends on Twitter: 'I kinda like it' Top Republicans say impeachment resolution is too little too late MORE (R-Fla.) — a member of the House Judiciary Committee who led a group of Republicans to storm the sensitive compartmented information facility last week in protest of the closed-door hearings — said he believes the decision to bring a measure to the floor is a direct result of Republicans' calls to open up the process.
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In a letter to Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie ThompsonBennie Gordon ThompsonHillicon Valley: Lawmakers unleash on Zuckerberg | House passes third election interference bill | Online extremism legislation advances in House | Google claims quantum computing breakthrough House chairman asks sergeant-at-arms to 'take action' after Republicans bring electronics to secure hearing House Homeland Security Committee advances online extremism bill MORE (D-Miss.) said that Republicans' decision to bring cell-phones into the room, known as a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF), violated security protocols established by the intelligence community to protect classified information.
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"These are individuals I would actually pull in at the White House," McCarthy told Fox's Maria BartiromoMaria Sara BartiromoRepublicans attack Pelosi for impeachment stalemate McCarthy recommends Collins, Ratcliffe, Jordan to represent Trump in Senate impeachment trial Van Drew: Final straw on party switch was NJ county chairman telling me I 'have to' vote for impeachment MORE on "Sunday Morning Futures," adding "you want people that have been through this, understand it, been in the hearings even when they were in the basement," referencing the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility where the initial closed-door House impeachment hearings took place.
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