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Re:The Trump administration accidentally texted me its war p... by somenameforme on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @12:39AM (#43478935)
There's also the temporal issue. Communications are classified, or not, after their creation. So we might add:

'My communications weren't classified at the time I made them.'

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Re:The Trump administration accidentally texted me its war p... by bb88 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @03:14AM (#43479619)
That's a distinction without a difference.

If you're in that intelligence community, you know exactly what is classified and what is not. I could imagine some information being so secretive it's not written down -- but instead passed verbally in person.

If a CIA agent has intelligence on an Israeli operation, it's classified, regardless of whether it was written down or not.

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