It may be deemed as still ‘classified’ but the reality is thast it is no logner classified- it is now public knowledge- right or wrong- The public is aware of the material, but our soldeirs who are cited with protectign this coutnry are not to be made aware of what is now material that hte public is aware of? Doesn’t make sense-
The entire DoD was instructed on this by a 7 June memo from DepSecDef. Downloads of the classified files to the unclassified “low side” or NIPRNET will constitute a data spill that will have to be manually removed from every device that accessed the data. Giant PITA with no practical benefits. Silly.
TC