https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/24/house-lawmakers-scif-national-security/
By Zack Whittaker
TechCrunch
October 24, 2019
If you thought storming into a highly secured government facility with your
electronics but without permission was a smart idea, you’d be wrong.
But that didn’t stop Rep. Matt Gaetz and close to three-dozen of his Republican
colleagues on Wednesday from doing exactly that.
Gaetz, a Republican congressman from Florida, proudly announced in his tweets:
“I led over 30 of my colleagues into the SCIF where Adam Schiff is holding
secret impeachment depositions.” At the time, Gaetz was interrupting a hearing
of the House Intelligence Committee where the chairman, Schiff, was deposing a
senior government official, Laura Cooper, as part of the Democrats’ impeachment
inquiry into President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.
One of the cardinal rules of entering one of these facilities is that you don’t
bring in any electronics. And those lawmakers did exactly that.
A SCIF -- a sensitive compartmented information facility -- sounds fancy, but
in reality are just rooms designed to be secure for sharing sensitive and
secret information at the higher echelons of government secrecy. There are
plenty dotted around Washington, DC for lawmakers and government officials to
huddle in and chit-chat. There are SCIFs in the White House, Congress and every
major government department in the capital -- even the president’s Florida
resort.
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