The United States has three levels of classification: Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret. Each level of classification indicates an increasing degree of sensitivity. Thus, if one holds a Top Secret security clearance, one is allowed to handle information up to the level of Top Secret, including Secret and Confidential information.

The U.S. classification system is currently established under Executive Order 13526 and has three levels of classification—Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret.

2022年8月26日 · The U.S. government uses three levels of classification to designate how sensitive government information is: confidential, secret and top secret. So what do the different levels actually mean?

2024年12月10日 · For the most part, individual federal agencies decide whether to classify or declassify information they create. They do so on the basis of Exec. Order No. 13,526, 75 Fed. Reg. 707 (Dec. 29, 2009) and guidance issued by the Information Security Oversight Office of the National Archives and Records Administration (ISOO).

Official information or material which requires protection against unauthorized disclosure in the interest of the national defense or foreign relations of the United States (hereinafter collectively termed "national security") shall be classified in one of three categories, namely "Top Secret," "Secret," or "Confidential," depending upon the deg...

2022年8月12日 · The U.S. government uses three levels of classification to designate how sensitive certain information is: confidential, secret and top secret. The lowest level, confidential, designates information whose release could damage U.S. national security.

2024年4月17日 · Classification Levels. (a) Information may be classified at one of the following three levels: (1) “Top Secret” shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security that the original classification authority is able to identify or ...

2017年5月15日 · What do the levels mean? The levels indicate the importance of the classified information to national security, including military plans or weapons systems; foreign government information;...

Section 1.1 Classification Levels. (a) National security information (hereinafter "classified information") shall be classified at one of the following three levels: (1) "Top Secret" shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security.

The United States has three levels of classification: Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret. Each level of classification indicates an increasing degree of sensitivity. Thus, if one holds a Top Secret security clearance, one is allowed to handle information up to the level of Top Secret, including Secret and Confidential information.