The issue wasn't it was classified. It's that it was code word classified. Top secret is described as "Top Secret shall be applied to information, the unauthor

The issue wasn't it was classified. It's that it was code word classified. Top secret is described as "Top Secret shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause "exceptionally grave damage" to the national security that the original classification authority is able to identify or describe." And this was classified at a level above top secret.