The classification system has been abused to the point of devaluing classified contents for decades. I think there&#x27;s only one real reason for this: only a very few things are real state secrets, but there&#x27;s a ton of budget overruns, bad ideas, career ending blunders, &quot;favorite&quot; vendors, vendors that hire close relatives, &quot;independent&quot; consultants, and similar mixes of incompetence and borderline embezzlement. It&#x27;s far too easy to just classify some episode, and keep it from blowing up into a rebuke or termination for cause. There&#x27;s little to be gained by carefully examining something and classifying it appropriate, and a lot to loose by under-classification.