That was my first thought as well. I wonder if the document was prepared and marked properly in the first place? There may have been multiple felonies committed in the release of this information.
I reckon it wasn't CNWDI, but you'd have to believe it would be TS/SCI.
“Highly Confidential Safeguards Sensitive”
Don’t forget UCNI
I think it’s IAEA.
From p. 1 of the pdf link posted:
“The IAEA classification of the enclosed declaration is ‘‘Highly Confidential Safeguards Sensitive’’; however, the United States regards this information as ‘‘Sensitive but Unclassified.’’
Nonetheless, under Public Law 109–401, information reported to, or otherwise acquired by, the United States Government under this title or under the U.S.-IAEA Additional Protocol shall be exempt from disclosure under section 552 of title 5, United States Code.”
So “highly confidential” is an IAEA classification. Technically, the material WAS NOT classified according to US standards (as a previous poster stated 100 comments ago). But I don’t know the meaning of the last paragraph above. Does “exempt from disclosure” mean that it’s OK or NOT OK to publish the material? The fact that GPO pulled it after NYT inquired suggests somebody goofed, but this looks like a bureaucratic snafu rather than WH-orchestrated leak.
The title page states: MESSAGE FROM
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
TRANSMITTING
A LIST OF THE SITES, LOCATIONS, FACILITIES, AND ACTIVITIES
IN THE UNITED STATES DECLARED TO THE INTERNATIONAL
ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA), UNDER THE PROTOCOL ADDITIONAL
TO THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA AND THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY
FOR THE APPLICATION OF SAFEGUARDS IN THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA, WITH ANNEXES, AS REQUIRED BY SECTION
271 OF PUBLIC LAW 109–401
MAY 6, 2009.—Message and accompanying papers referred to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed
I think transmittals of this sort are routinely printed (indeed the authorizing statute may require this). The 109th Congress was in session from 2005-2006, so my guess is that this list has been issued annually ever since. Whether it’s been openly printed in the past is another matter.