"Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information" is beyond the generic Top Secret classification.
Security guy on Fox said this is very serious....that level of Top Secret requires numerous protections.
Top Secret Clearance has 3 Levels:
‘Top Secret’.... is applied to information that reasonably could be expected to cause ‘exceptionally grave damage’ to the national security if disclosed to unauthorized sources.
This level needs to be re-investigated every 5 years.
‘Secret Clearance’ ....Secret is applied to information that reasonably could be expected ‘to cause serious damage’ to the national security if disclosed to unauthorized sources.
This level is re-investigated every 10 years.
‘Confidential Clearance’.....Confidential is applied to information that reasonably could be expected to cause damage to the national security ‘if disclosed to unauthorized sources’. The vast majority of military personnel are given this very basic level of clearance.
This level needs to be re-investigated every 15 years.
(Clearance Re-investigation...Reinvestigations are more important than the original investigation because those individuals who have held clearances longer are more likely to be working with increasingly critical information.)