One of the many issues raised by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email controversy is who within the State Department determines the classification level of key and routine documents.

US classified documents have been turning up in places they shouldn’t be in recent months. The Justice Department removed some classified documents from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago ...

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Abel is an associate professor of law at UC Law, San Francisco. His academic research focuses on informational asymmetries in the criminal justice system and the structural injustices these ...

There is no legal definition for information that is "high classified." Instead, there are three classification levels based on the damage to national security if information got out. The special ...

Jeffrey Fields is an associate professor of the practice of international relations at the University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Before coming to academia ...

President Donald Trump's administration began the process of releasing more than 60,000 previously classified files on the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Tuesday, some of which ...

The legal and political battles over the search of former President Trump's Florida residence this week are just beginning, and among the questions to be settled are those revolving around the ...

The FBI seized 11 sets of documents during the search of former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida last week, and among those documents were some labeled “top secret.” Trump claimed the ...

A heavily redacted affidavit released by the Justice Department Friday says boxes retrieved from Mar-a-Lago early this year contained over 184 classified documents and there was “probable cause to ...

When the FBI searched former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort last week, agents seized 11 sets of classified documents, including ones marked "Top Secret," court filings show. The actual ...