[Strategerist]

Bill Gertz is an exceedingly unreliable source.

And if you parse the article a lot of what is claimed is pretty thin.

Any office has both unclassified and classified networks - you can have a lot of sensitive data on an unclass network, but it’s not nearly as bad as actually getting on the classified network.

Reading the article and parsing the wording, if this actually happened at all (and with Gertz this is doubtful to begin with) I think the unclass network was compromised but Gertz threw in a lot of wording to make it sound like their classified network was compromised, to make it seem like a more exciting story.

[palmer]

Bill Gertz is an exceedingly unreliable source.

Evidence? I can point to a number of Gertz articles that are pretty accurate though not earth shattering (e.g. where he quotes named sources)

[penelopesire]

I have always liked Gertz myself. The bigger problem IMHO is that this WH is an extremely unreliable bunch. We will likely never know what happened and should not trust anything that the WH says on the matter either

[thouworm]

“Bill Gertz is an exceedingly unreliable source.”

???

On what do you base your opinion? I have always thought just the opposite.

[American Constitutionalist]

Perhaps ?
This is all of a plan to slip this out there to get the public startled.