Classified Information Leaks

How is that a violation? My understanding is that it's a violation to disclose classified information. It doesn't really make any sense to prevent cleared people from reading these things because then who's going to be able to figure out the extent of the information leaked.

When questions about their access has arisen earlier the administration has said they were granted security clearances. Releasing classified information is in that case is potentially illegal and at a minimum was normally result in your security clearance being revoked. But these guys didn’t go through the normal processes for obtaining a security clearance, so there is no reason to believe the normal rules and laws will be followed now.

There is no exception. When Wikileaks posted its cables, the government mandated that anyone with a clearance shall not visit the websites and view the information. If it happened, it would be classified as a "data spill" which means classified info on a network with a lower classification."Data spills" sometimes result in punishment. If the mods read this comment, please return the classification to the title as it would ensure people with clearances were warned about the

Allowed to talk about classified material? Doubtful

"secret" and "top secret" are specific classification labels that don't necessarily correspond 1 to 1 with colloquial definition of the word secret. (Kind of like maybe the word memory in a computer doesn't quite correspond to human memory even though it is the same word).Just because a set of documents are leaked, exposed, stolen, published by someone or handed over to people who are not authorized to view it, it does not automatically reset their classification

It says "specifically authorized to be kept secret... and are properly classified" which seems pretty normal.

Certainly, there must be a state for "leaked" classified documents, for which this rule simply wouldn't apply (these leaked documents could literally appear anywhere on the web in theory).

A fundamental rule of classified information is that disclosure of said information does not cause declassification. You aim to make it unclear whether there is any truth in the leaked documents to cast doubt on the information.Imagine if these were nuclear secrets. You would prefer it to be unclear so that replicating groups would not feel confident jumping into a nuclear project.Obviously since we are talking about something that may violate Amendment 4, things ought to be a bit differen

Of course they don't. That information is classified!

Sorry citizen, that's classified.