What is a SCIF? The US government invests billions in building Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities, or SCIFs (pronounced "skiff")— highly secure rooms designed to safeguard sensitive ...

The Pentagon set up a system in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office that enabled him to check messages on the encrypted messaging app Signal while at the office, sources familiar with the matter ...

Today’s Republican excursion into protest theater in the Capitol, wherein a large number of GOP members rushed the Intelligence Committee’s Secure Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF ...

All of that information is — by default — considered classified. A SCIF is guarded, windowless, and outside electronics-free Viewing or discussing this information requires Top Secret ...

They can talk about secret things in what is called a sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIF. This means a secure place, often with a big, heavy door and a lock on it, where security ...

Descend the stairs to the lower-level black box gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington and you might think you've stepped into a secure facility for state secrets. Video screens ...

The US Capitol has a SCIF where congressional committees can host closed meetings or hearings. The SCIF in the White House — commonly referred to as the Situation Room — is one of the most ...

The extraordinary operational security failure underscored a deeply troubling, dangerous reality in modern national security — some highly sensitive military conversations may not be happening inside ...