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BREAKINGL Judge has granted the motion to unseal the search warrant and receipts.

THREAD: Last night's report the FBI was looking for 'nuclear documents' could mean a couple different things—but there are some clues in the wider reporting that might help narrow it down. I wrote a book on nuclear war plans, so buckle up, here we go….

1) The US has, broadly speaking, four different categories of files that would count as 'nuclear documents,' each of which has some unique classification peculiarities, and all of which exist at the so-called "Above Top Secret" level because a simple TS clearance isn't enough....

'Nuclear docs' could refer to files on:

(a) nuclear weapon science and design;
(b) other countries' nuclear plans, both allies (UK) and adversaries (Russia, China, North Korea);
(c) details on our nuclear weapons and deployments;
(d) details on our nuclear command & control...

2) "Nuclear science and design" files are uniquely classified as what's known as "Restricted Data," a special security level run by the Dept of Energy and historically accessed through what's known as a "Q Clearance," a special background check and access protocol.

3) "TS/RD" files are "born classified," in that unlike other classified intelligence/science work, they are presumed to be highly classified from the moment of creation. Rather than opting-in to classification, you have to opt out.....

4) "Nuclear Command & Control" documents—think how the presidential Football operates and how launch procedures unfold—are known as NC2 and have their historically had their own classification known as "Extremely Sensitive Information" (ESI), which again requires special access…

5) The fact we've seen references around the Mar-a-Lago search to "Special Access Programs" (SAPs) tells us something too: SAPs are also a unique classification category that deals—usually—with the most sensitive operations and technical capabilities of intel/defense systems….

6) SAPs require you to be "read into" the program, e.g. that you have a specific "need to know," and the documents are carefully tracked to see who has read them and where they're stored.

7) Details of a foreign country's nuclear plans? That'd be a SAP *and* probably what's known as SCI, "Sensitive Compartmented Information," the designation usually for protecting "sources and methods."

Obviously how we know about other countries' secrets would be SCI.…

Interestingly, SAPs can also protect nuclear research and development, as well as presidential/military NC2 communication systems, which are known by their own special clearance YANKEE WHITE.

Did Trump walk out with info on cutting-edge R&D or presidential launch systems? …

8) SAPs and SCI are known by their own codenames, so, for instance, the long-ttime classification for our satellite reconnaissance was TALENT KEYHOLE, so documents protected by it would be labeled "TS/SCI TALENT KEYHOLE"….

9) tl;dr: All these classifications—SCI, SAP, ESI, RD—denote and protect the literally most sensitive documents in the entire US government.

The idea you'd walk out of a secure facility with them?

That's a literal federal crime—and one that the USG prosecutes harshly, often.

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Is loss a problem to be solved? Can we avoid grief without shutting out the intimacy of love? There are many sage answers to these questions. Few, for example, have written as elegantly or agonized as publicly about love and loss as singer Nick Cave of The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds. These are subjects to which he returns on album after album and in entries of his cult-favorite blog The Red Hand Files, where Cave publishes answers to an assortment of fan questions.

Musing in 2019 on whether artificial intelligence will ever produce a great song, for example, Cave states one of his major themes plainly: “A sense of awe is almost exclusively predicated on our limitations as human beings. It is entirely to do with our audacity as humans to reach beyond our potential.” From this capacity come our greatest imaginative feats, Cave writes: our ability to conjure “bright phantoms” in our deepest grief.

Cave wrote these last words in 2018 to a fan named Cynthia who told him about her family’s losses and asked the singer if he and his wife Susie communicated with their son Arthur, who died tragically in 2015. In answer, Cave avoids the cliches that Devine says do nothing for us. He neither denies the reality of Cynthia’s pain, nor does he leave her without hope for “change and growth and redemption.”

https://www.openculture.com/2022/07/benedict-cumberbatch-reads-nick-caves-beautiful-letter-about-grief.html

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Donald Trump will face questioning from the New York Attorney General's office Wednesday, as its years-long civil fraud probe nears its conclusion.

Trump confirmed Wednesday's deposition in the wide-ranging investigation in a post on his social network. He called the investigation a "witch hunt" and said "my great company, and myself, are being attacked from all sides."

New York Attorney General Letitia James has sought the deposition for more than half a year as Trump and two of his children, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, fought subpoenas through a trio of New York courts. They were eventually ordered to sit for depositions, and earlier this month Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump were questioned.

The subpoenas sought "testimony and documents in connection with an investigation into the valuation of properties owned or controlled by Donald J. Trump or the Trump Organization, or any matter which the Attorney General deems pertinent."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-will-be-questioned-in-new-york-attorney-general-letitia-james-fraud-investigation-wednesday/