Question: If the documents are classified, how do you prove it to a jury? They don’t have clearance.
No shortage of Americans have been not only convicted, but sentenced for long terms for mishandling of secret and classified documents. Although for the jury, they themselves were not cleared… That’s why DOJ is focusing in on the “secret” level (orange file folder) documents he had as opposed to TS/SCI (red), of which they were both types in his possession, but precisely for these security reasons they won’t want lay out much TS/SCI in the case. The level of the documents classification is a moot point anyways because they’re all ‘national defense information’ which a private citizen is not allowed to have and which must always be housed in a secure facility, and nobody without authorization may see them.