> I mean, the news article that explained the origin of the patch was deemed "Top Secret". No, it wasn't. The original article, as you can clearly read in the

> I mean, the news article that explained the origin of the patch was deemed "Top Secret". No, it wasn't. The original article, as you can clearly read in the picture, was Secret. That'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 'the sky is blue, and the D-Day landings take place in Normandy' 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 not have been marked unclassified due to the statement that the sky is blue. This makes perfect sense. How could it be otherwise? The inclusion of your mailing address (public information) doesn't make your bank statement public information.