It's perfectly believable, and was done previously for the Manning/Wikileaks incident.
The Guardian and Washington Post are posting Top Secret material. You're not allowed to have Top Secret material on a government or military unclassified computer. If you do, the leakage has to be reported, and the computer has to be scrubbed. Material isn't automatically "declassified" simply because it was leaked to the media.
There's a vast collection of idiots in the media mis-reporting the story, which is being amplified by idiots on FR.
Bravo Sierra. Classified material (Confidential, Secret, or Top Secret) has to be clearly marked as such. If it is not, it is not classified material and should not be blocked.
Seems pbs.org was onto the NSA at least by 2007...
Here’s an excerpt:
“What’s the historical relationship between the NSA and the telephone companies? Is it close?”
“Well, it’s very close. For almost 100 years NSA and its predecessors have had an extremely close relationship with the telecommunications companies, and during most of that time, there’s been illegal agreements between the telecommunications company and NSA, where the companies would actually pass information on to NSA very secretly and largely illegally.”
EVERYONE should read the full page at this link.
IT’S FROM 2007. IT’S FROM PBS.ORG.
Seems like everyone in DC knew this crap was going on all along. Seems like the liberal and conservative intelligentsia knew. Seems like the financial oligarchy simply told their news media to not report it all along.
But if it's posted in the media, it isn't Top Secret anymore.