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‘Top secret’: How to decipher the documents in Trump FBI raid photo

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Some of the “top secret” documents seized from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate had such a specific security classification that FBI agents and federal prosecutors had to get special clearance just to view them, the Justice Department’s latest filing says.
A photo of some of the materials recovered from Trump’s “45 office” at the Florida property showed whited-out documents with colored cover sheets indicating their classified status — including “top secret” and “secret.”
Some of the documents featured in the image, which was included in the department’s filing late Tuesday, also had the less familiar designation “TS/SCI” — an abbreviation for sensitive compartmented information.  
“The classification levels ranged from CONFIDENTIAL to TOP SECRET information, and certain documents included additional sensitive compartments that signify very limited distribution,” the DOJ said in its filing.

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