Those pages have been kept so securely & hidden away from everyone that even Congressmen & Senators with clearances weren't even allowed to take notes on a scratchpad, when perusing them.
They had to mentally memorize any of the contents therein !
Here's the recent 60 Minutes piece on the White House's potential declassification of the "28 pages" [1] of the 9/11 Commission Report [2].
It also comes at a time when the White House and intelligence officials
are reviewing whether to declassify one of the country's most sensitive
documents -- known as the "28 pages." They have to do with 9/11 and the
possible existence of a Saudi support network for the hijackers while
they were in the U.S.
For 13 years, the 28 pages have been locked away in a secret vault. Only
a small group of people have ever seen them. Tonight, you will hear from
some of the people who have read them and believe, along with the families
of 9/11 victims that they should be declassified.
> (...) weren't even allowed to take notes on a scratchpad, when perusing them.
That's really not that surprising. Notes would need to be derivatively classified, and would require special transportation out of the SCIF that they were taken in. Additionally, I doubt any congresspeople's offices are SCIFs that would be allowed to store such sensitive information.
Careful not to drink the KOOLAID. Congress people, especially Wyden, have requested SCIF's for events like that before and were rejected on technicalities. Bruce Schneier said they requested one when they met him to discuss Snowden leaks DOD were still trying to contain. DOD wouldnt allow the SCIF.
CIA pulled same kind of BS with torture report allegedly for OPSEC then showed true motivation with hacking to cover up their wrongdoing.
Not drinking any koolaid, I have just worked with classified info in the past and have run head-on with the restrictions regarding their handling. I have no idea whether the intelligence community has some ulterior motive, I'm just saying that not allowing them to take notes isn't some unbelievable restriction for TS information.
I was joking with you on that part. Yes, there's policy requirements that affect these things. That the Executive agencies keep refusing to make adequate exceptions or provisions for Legislative and Judicial is either a sign of incompetence or malice.
https://28pages.org/faq/