This image made from video provided by the Australian Broadcasting Corp., (ABC) shows documents box being placed in safe at the ABC bureau in the Australian Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018. Australian secret service officers on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018, secured thousands of classified documents that were sold with two secondhand filing cabinets and have been the basis of news reports by Australia’s national broadcaster. Australian Security Intelligence Organization officers seized documents from ABC bureaus in Parliament House in the capital, Canberra, and in the cities of Brisbane and Melbourne, the state-owned broadcaster said. ABC revealed Wednesday it had thousands of Cabinet documents that had been found inside surplus government filing cabinets. Australian Cabinet documents are usually kept secret for 20 years, before they are made public in a heavily redacted form.

Source: Washington Post February 01, 2018 00:43 UTC