&gt; Information is born classified, markings are irrelevant.<p>Not sure what you mean by this.  An enormous amount of effort is expended in government to mark classified and confidential documents properly, set their disposition dates, record who classified it and why, and so forth.<p>Classification is not just determined at the time of the creation of a document&#x2F;artifact, it can be changed as a result of being coupled with other information, or by changes in circumstances, or simply by different readings of by different people.