If Trump is found guilty on all counts, he could be imprisoned for up to 100 years and fined $1.75 million.
noted that, in early 2022, the FBI retrieved 15 boxes of documents, that 22 documents were classified Top Secret, and that some of those contained even more sensitive markings, including HCS, SCI, FISA, ORCA, and NOFORN.
These obscure acronyms suggest that Trump is in very deep trouble, and it’s completely self-inflicted. HCS means HUMINT Control System, and HUMINT means Human Intelligence—i.e., intelligence gathered by human spies. These documents may contain the identities of spies as well the information they supplied.
FISA means information processed through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s special court. This would include intercepts of foreign governments’ communications.ORCON stands for Originator-Controlled, meaning that dissemination—even within the government, even to officials cleared for Top Secret—must first be approved by the originator . In other words, Trump couldn’t have declassified these papers even if he had wanted to.
The FBI special agent who filed the affidavit wrote that he had “probable cause” to believe there were more boxes, containing more highly classified documents, still hidden away at Mar-a-Lago, many in unsecured locations. The judge approved his request to go back for another look. The court-ordered search three days later, on Aug. 8, retrieved
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