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Undated: Classified information is material that a government body deems to be sensitive information that must be protected. Access is restricted by law or regulation to particular groups of people with the necessary security clearance and need to know, and intentionally mishandling of the material can incur criminal penalties.

The U.S. classification system is currently established under Executive Order 13526 and has three levels of classification—Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret. The U.S. had a Restricted level during World War II but no longer does.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information#United_States

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May 15: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has accepted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s invitation to brief the Senate about President Donald Trump’s decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey, McConnell’s office said Monday.

The briefing, which McConnell’s office says will be classified, will take place Thursday, May 18 at 2:30 PM.
http://fortune.com/2017/05/15/james-comey-fired-rod-rosenstein-senate-briefing/


May 15:
President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said Trump’s disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State.

The information the president relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, officials said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-high_trumpintel-0504pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.d36be6b17c19

May 15: ... reports of Trump revealing classified information to the Russians comes just ahead of his first foreign trip as president. He's set to depart on Friday, traveling to Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Vatican ... "Revealing classified information at this level is extremely dangerous and puts at risk the lives of Americans and those who gather intelligence for our country." ... Throughout the campaign, Trump repeatedly criticized his Democratic opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, over her mishandling of classified information on her private email server. At his rallies, the crowd frequently chanted "Lock her up!"
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/15/528511980/report-trump-gave-classified-information-to-russians-during-white-house-visit


May 16: President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information about so-called Islamic State (IS) to Russia's foreign minister, US media report.

The information, related to the use of laptops on aircraft, came from a partner of the US which had not given permission for it to be shared with Russia, says the Washington Post.

Mr Trump received Sergei Lavrov in the Oval Office last week.

National Security Adviser HR McMaster dismissed the reporting as "false".

The Trump campaign's alleged links to Moscow have dogged his presidency and are part of several investigations.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39931012

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May 16:  White House insists Trump's disclosures 'wholly appropriate'

The highly classified information about an Islamic State plot was collected by Israel, a crucial source of intelligence and close partner in the fight against some of the America's fiercest threats in the Middle East. Trump's disclosure of the information threatened to fray that partnership and piled pressure on the White House to explain the apparently on-the-spot decision to reveal the information to Russian diplomats in a meeting last week.
https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2017/05/16/white-house-insists-trump-s-disclosures-wholly-appropriate/

May 18: Can senators share what they learn in classified Rosenstein briefing [regarding firing of James Comey]? ... Senators are generally highly aware of what they are allowed to say when leaving a sensitive briefing like this. Disclosure of classified information is against the law and many senators are wary to talk to reporters when for fear they will accidentally reveal secrets. Other senators, especially those who deal regularly with classified national security information, are more comfortable and will discuss non-classified information with the press, something that helps them shape the narrative of a given issue.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/18/politics/classified-briefing-senators-rosenstein/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist

June 5: A criminal complaint was filed in the Southern District of Georgia today charging Reality Leigh Winner, 25, a federal contractor from Augusta, Georgia, with removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 793(e).

Winner was arrested by the FBI at her home on Saturday, June 3, and appeared in federal court in Augusta this afternoon.

“Exceptional law enforcement efforts allowed us quickly to identify and arrest the defendant,” said Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein. “Releasing classified material without authorization threatens our nation’s security and undermines public faith in government. People who are trusted with classified information and pledge to protect it must be held accountable when they violate that obligation.”
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-government-contractor-georgia-charged-removing-and-mailing-classified-materials-news

July 9:
More than half of the memos former FBI Director James Comey wrote as personal recollections of his conversations with President Trump about the Russia investigation have been determined to contain classified information, according to interviews with officials familiar with the documents.

This revelation raises the possibility that Comey broke his own agency’s rules and ignored the same security protocol that he publicly criticized Hillary Clinton over in the waning days of the 2016 presidential election.
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/341225-comeys-private-memos-on-trump-conversations-contained-classified

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August 8: Trump retweets story containing info Haley called ‘classified’

When asked about the report from Fox News that U.S. spy satellites captured North Korea moving anti-ship cruise missiles to patrol boats, Ms. Haley said she couldn’t comment.

“I can’t talk about anything that’s classified. And if that’s in the newspaper that’s a shame. I have no reason to comment on it,” she said on Fox News.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/8/president-trump-retweets-story-containing-info-nik/

August 8: "It is alarming the casualness with which President Trump shares classifieds information," Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu of California told CNN's Poppy Harlow Tuesday. "Just because something is in the press doesn't make that information no longer classified, so the President should not be tweeting classified information just because he as the President."
https://www.theindychannel.com/news/national/trump-retweets-fox-news-story-containing-classified-info

August 8: Trump's motive for retweeting the Fox News story remains unclear but the decision to promote a report that -- according to the US ambassador to the United Nations -- contains classified information leaked to the press by anonymous sources comes just days after the President praised Attorney General Jeff Sessions' plan to combat that very practice in the name of national security. 
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/08/politics/trump-retweet-fox-news-north-korea-story-haley/index.html

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Undated:
Donald Trump's disclosures of classified information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump's_disclosures_of_classified_information

May 2: President Trump’s repeated claim that Comey ‘leaked classified information’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/

April 20: At least two of the memos that former FBI Director James Comey gave to a friend outside of the government contained information that officials now consider classified, according to people familiar with the matter, prompting a review by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-watchdog-probes-comey-memos-over-classified-information-1524243505

April 21: Trump accuses Comey of ‘breaking the law’ with memos on classified information
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/21/trump-accuses-comey-breaking-law-memos-classified-/

April 20: Were any portions of the Comey memos classified?

Unclassified material in one memo became "confidential" after Comey was fired from the FBI.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/were-any-portions-comey-memos-classified-n867916

April 24: What the law says about James Comey’s leaked memos

According to the Wall Street Journal, at least two of the four memos Comey shared with Richman contained information that is now considered classified. However, details are sketchy about which memos Comey gave Richman, and how sensitive their contents were at the time of transfer. (Citing anonymous sources, the Journal said Comey redacted elements from one memo that he knew were classified before sharing, and that another memo was classified only after Comey left the FBI.)
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/apr/24/what-law-says-about-james-comeys-leaked-memos/

April 26: Comey rejects Trump's claim he leaked classified info: 'He's just wrong'

Comey maintained during an interview with Fox News's Bret Baier that information about his conversations with Trump that he had a friend share with a reporter last year was unclassified.
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/385106-comey-rejects-trumps-claim-he-leaked-classified-information

April 27: There’s still no evidence Comey leaked classified information to the media
https://www.washingtonpost.com/

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May 31: Trump Accused Of Loose Lips With Classified Information To Impress Donors

A major clash between U.S. forces and Russian mercenaries in Syria has been a topic the White House has not wanted to publicly discuss, but according to Politico, President Trump shared classified details about the battle with the attendees at a $50,000 a plate fundraiser last week at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel. If true, Trump followed no orderly procedures in deciding to reveal the classified information, apart from his normal rhetorical self-congratulatory style in taking credit for what American forces do.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlestiefer/2018/05/31/trump-wrongly-revealed-a-classified-syria-clash-at-a-50000plate-ny-fundraiser/#62a684687fba

September 21: President Donald Trump on Friday put the brakes on his plan to declassify and release documents and texts related to the federal investigation of his presidential campaign and the inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

The apparent reversal, which leaves unclear when, or if, the material will be released, came after days of criticism about his move to declassify the items.

Trump said in two tweets that he has asked the Justice Department's internal watchdog, Inspector General Michael Horowitz, to review the documents "on an expedited basis" after concerns were raised by DOJ officials that releasing the documents "may have a perceived negative impact on the Russia probe."
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/21/trump-backs-down-on-release-of-classified-russia-probe-documents.html

October 16: The epidemic of government workers leaking classified information to the media is largely fueled by animosity toward President Trump, said Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Speaking to The Washington Times just hours after the Justice Department secured a guilty plea in a leak case involving a senior Senate staffer, he said he has made weeding out the leakers a major priority.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/16/jeff-sessions-classified-information-leaks-fueled-/

October 25: When Trump Phones Friends, the Chinese and the Russians Listen and Learn
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/us/politics/trump-phone-security.html

November 20: Ivanka Trump used personal email for White House business
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46271021

November 20: Trump Says Ivanka's Personal Email Had No Classified Information

House oversight panel plans to investigate personal email use

Trump, speaking to reporters as he left the White House to spend Thanksgiving in Florida, said his daughter didn’t do anything to hide her emails and called recent reports about the private email use “fake news.”

The Post reported that Ivanka Trump relied on her personal attorneys to review her private emails and determine which ones were government records that needed to be retained. Clinton did the same, and the Trump campaign slammed her repeatedly for it.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-20/trump-says-ivanka-s-personal-email-had-no-classified-information

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