This
week, the inspector general of the nation’s intelligence agencies, I.
Charles McCullough III, informed members of Congress that Mrs. Clinton
had “top secret” information, the highest classification of government
intelligence, in her account.
Some
of that information, according to a memorandum the inspector general
sent to the heads of the Senate and House intelligence and judiciary
committees, may have come from a program called Talent Keyhole, which
relies on satellite intercepts of conversations or imagery data. The
program involves some of the most secure information in the intelligence
agencies’ computer systems.
Specifically,
the inspector general told members of Congress that two emails should
have been classified as top secret, with one of them designated “TOP
SECRET//SI//TK/NOFORN.” Officials familiar with the nomenclature said
that “SI” stood for “special intelligence,” usually indicating an
intercepted communication, and that “TK” was routinely used as an
abbreviation for Talent Keyhole, showing that the communication or an
image was obtained from a satellite.
(Source: NY Times, here).
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