The 37-count indictment against Donald Trump has accused the former president of risking some of the most closely guarded US government secrets by storing classified documents in unsecured areas of his Florida resort.
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The documents, according to the indictment, included details about US nuclear weapons, spy satellites and the US military and were produced by the Pentagon and arms of the US intelligence community, including the CIA, the National Security Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office and other agencies.
"The unauthorised disclosure of these classified documents could put at risk the national security of the United States, foreign relations, the safety of the United States military, and human sources and the continued viability of sensitive collection methods," the indictment said.
DOCUMENTS MENTIONED IN THE INDICTMENT INCLUDE:
* A document marked TOP SECRET/////ORCON/NOFORN that the indictment says concerned "nuclear capabilities of a foreign country"
* ORCON means the material in the document cannot be disseminated outside the US government department that originated it without prior approval
* A document marked SECRET//FORMERLY RESTRICTED DATA that the indictment says concerned "nuclear weaponry of the United States"
* According to a Department of Energy training guide, the Formally Restricted Data, or FRD, classification is used for materials downgraded from a higher classification that relate "primarily to the military utilisation of atomic weapons"
* "Formerly does not mean unclassified", the guide says
* Examples of FRD provided by the guide include quantities of nuclear weapons in the US stockpile, warhead yields and their locations
* A document marked TOP SECRET//SI//NOFORN//FISA that the indictment says concerned "military capabilities of a foreign country and the United States, with handwritten annotation in black marker"
* NOFORN means the document cannot be shared with a foreign government while FISA refers to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and means the material is from intercepted communications
* Six top-secret documents marked TK, standing for Talent Keyhole, a classification for materials related to US spy satellites
* The indictment says these documents concerned the military capabilities of foreign countries
Australian Associated Press
