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Uh...why were they classified in the first place?!!
That seems very strange, why would they want to keep that from people seeing it?
To protect the sourcing, is my guess. Many things are classified solely to protect how the information was obtained.
Example: terrorist A. Says something to a single person, and he knows he only told a single person that information. Then its revealed publicly somehow that the US Government also knows that information. Well, then he knows who the leak is. That is Human Intelligence or HUMINT.
So many times not revealing the source is more important than the value of the data. You don't want your enemy knowing how you know.
Being four years later a good chance none of the sourcing will be harmed and if it would be, expect some minor redactions and for Trump to walk that back a bit.
In the U.S., information is called "classified" if it has been assigned one of the three levels: Confidential, Secret, or Top Secret. Information that is not so labeled is called "Unclassified information". The term declassified is used for information that has had its classification removed, and downgraded refers to information that has been assigned a lower classification level but is still classified. Many documents are automatically downgraded and then declassified after some number of years The US government classifies information according to the degree which the unauthorized disclosure would damage national security.
So--- it's about national security -- so if we, the mere public, are talking about it, and the potus is going to throw it out there,,, it was not that much to worry over, if it was important- we would not even have a clue.
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