[where's_the_Outrage?]

"A Vice President or Senator does not have the authority to declassify anything."

And neither does the DOJ/FBI. I content a photo taken in a SCIF would have the highest classification of that SCIF. So this photo should be classified TS/SCI and had downgrade markings on it. As such the DOJ is guilty of leaking classified information.

I'd like to see the DOJ explain that.

[OldMissileer]

Cover sheets are not classified. They are the unclassified warning that the materials underneath the cover sheets are classified.

[jimtorr]

I content a photo taken in a SCIF would have the highest classification of that SCIF.

You are mistaken. I was security inside SCIFs for many years. A photo taken in secure spaces can be released as unclassified after proper review by security.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Good point. There’s another concern. Has the FIB provided proof that ALL ransacking agents held sufficient clearances to even touch the anticipated documents? Has Smith’s clearance been elevated to a level sufficient to read and examine same?

[UCANSEE2]

Also remember this....

When President Trump was accused of allegedly reading the contents of a classified document OUT LOUD to a reporter, the President was surprised to find those documents in his boxes of documents.

Why? Because he didn’t decide to take them. They were in the boxes that NARA dumped on the sidewalk for President Trump and staff to take with him as he left office. It was how they CONSPIRED to be able to indict him for possession of non-personal classified documents.

Now... here’s the interesting part. It is possible that in their haste to stuff some really good stuff (TS/NOFORN/etc...) in his boxes that they may have accidentally put the BINDER that the FBI raided Mar-A-Lago to find. The one that had all the goods on high level DEM politicians.

God works in mysterious ways. It will be interesting to find out if that is the case.