&gt; I mean, the news article that explained the origin of the patch was deemed &quot;Top Secret&quot;.<p>No, it wasn&#x27;t.  The original article, as you can clearly read in the picture, was Secret.<p>That&#x27;s not absurd: see all those black boxes in the unclassified version of the article?  Those are redactions, which would have contained classified information of one sort or another.  A collection of information is classified as the union of all individual classifications of information within it.  E.g. the sentence &#x27;the sky is blue, and the D-Day landings take place in Normandy&#x27; would have been classified Top Secret (or whatever) back in 1944, since the location of the landings would have been Top Secret (or whatever); it would <i>not</i> have been marked unclassified due to the statement that the sky is blue.<p>This makes perfect sense.  How could it be otherwise?  The inclusion of your mailing address (public information) doesn&#x27;t make your bank statement public information.