This from a prior post, but is worth repeating here with your good catch:
Often the distinctions used when discriminating between the classification of information as either Secret or Top Secret include both the AMOUNT of damage that can be done to US interests, personnel, property, defense capabilities, etc, by the inappropriate disclosure of that classified materiel, and often more importantly, the IMMEDIACY of that potentially deadly harm.
There are higher classifications of protected information than TS, but if TS materiel is compromised, it would be expected that great harm, physical and often deadly, could happen to American and Americans IN THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE, often a matter of hours.
For example, information that could be used against us in a few hours would include the locations of certain fissionable weapons, their transportation schedules to and from Pantex, locations of biological agents kept in Cat. IV bio containment laboratories in order to prepare vaccines against the possible enemy use of those bio agents against us, and much more.
The TS materiel compromised by Ms. Clinton probably covers other issues, not nucs or bio, but the above shows the seriousness of this compromise. The word compromise is operative here, because once classified materiel is even possibly in the hands of enemy powers, it is always assumed to known to them and therefore being used against us.
This is very serious
Be well
Outstanding post!
Thank you!
Thanks for the clarification. Great post.