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Jim Himes: “Every, single day, I go to a secure compartmented information facility in the Capitol and I take all the electronic…”

On the recordAugust 12, 2022
Every, single day, I go to a secure compartmented information facility in the Capitol and I take all the electronic devices I have on my body, my watch, my iPhone, I put them in a locker. I go past an armed guard through an extraordinarily thick, door to sets of doors, actually, and if I’m going to look as a member of Congress that the most sensitive information that we have in this country, known TS/SCI, which we know that the FBI took out of Mar-a-Lago of all places. I have to go through a lot of stuff.
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Jim Himes
Democratic · Connecticut
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msnbc.com

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Himes explains the strict protocols for handling classified information compared to Trump's situation.

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