senior director of the white house situation roombut guidelines issued by the office of the director of national intelligence which oversees the intelligence agencies require that any sensitive compartmented information some of the highestvalue intelligence the us possesses be viewed only in secure rooms known as scifsthe fbi in a court filing this past week included a photo of some of the records that agents discovered in the search of trumps estate the photo showed cover sheets on at least five sets of papers that are marked top secretsci a reference to sensitive compartmented information as well as a cover sheet labeled secretsci and contains sensitive compartmented information the fbi also found dozens of empty folders marked classified with nothing inside and no explanation of what might have been therea president can keep reports presented during a briefing for later review and presidents or nominees for president during an election year arent always briefed in a scif depending on their schedules and locations pfeiffer saidtheres no intelligence community directive that says how presidents should or shouldnt be briefed on the materials said pfeiffer now director of the michael v hayden center for intelligence policy and international security weve never had to worry about it beforepeople around the president with access to intelligence are trained on intelligence rules on handling classified information and required to follow them but imposing restrictions on the president would be difficult for intelligence agencies pfeiffer said because by virtue of being the executive of the executive branch he sets all the rules with regard to secrecy and classificationpresident joe biden told reporters recently that he often reads his top secret presidential daily briefing at his home in delaware where he frequently spends his weekends and holidays but biden said he takes precautions to make certain the document stays securei have in my home a cabinedoff space that is completely secure biden saidhe added i read it i lock it back up and give it to the military