Those who thought the National Security Council document was classified as secret gave it, on average, a quality rating of eight out of eleven.
The document is classified, officials said, mostly because of a few sections assessing risk and detailing the pre-positioning of war-fighting matériel.
Several government officials who described the impetus for the order would speak only on condition of anonymity because the document is classified.
While the last assessment painted a grim picture of an Iraqi government paralyzed by sectarian strife, the new intelligence estimate cites slow but steady progress by Iraqi politicians on forging alliances between Shiites and Sunnis in Iraq, said the government officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the document is classified.
The document is classified because its disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security.
Distance between the category which a document should belong to and the category which the document be classified incorrectly probably is the most intuitive reference to determine how serious an error is.
The document is classified at the Top Secret/CODEWORD level," Welch wrote in an October 11 , 2011letter.
When it seems that entirely too many documents are classified, we are left with few options to check our leaders.
Some of the documents are classified and, despite repeated requests from members of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee, have not been released.
The documents are classified Secret/NOFORN (that is, no distribution to foreign countries), and WikiLeaks shared them with seven news organizations, on the condition that they evaluate them before they were released, when they were leaked to the New York Times, which brought in the Guardian and NPR — breaking the embargo.
