From my experience, it was. The originator of the message or information determined the classification of the documents before they were sent, and that determined how they were handled.
I remember when I was working in various offices where we handled classified material, those of us who had high level clearances were the ones that picked up the message traffic because Radio would generally put everything together in one package (Confidential, Secret) so that it was easier to receive, and then we would separate it when we got back to the office. Only personnel with Secret or above clearances were allowed to go pick up the message traffic, and if it was something above that, we generally had to go to Radio to view the message there so as to limit access.
Dunno how it worked in the workspace this person got the information from though, as it sounds like they were in a hub site (place where all information comes through), and not an office that received the information from the hub site.
Way after Desert storm had ended (5 years maybe afterwards), a fella we knew had been a desk jockey in what I guess you would deem a low traffic area (stuff passing across his desk), during or at the end of D-Storm, and so he told us that he saw a check cross his desk one time, and it was from the Saudi Arabian government payable to the U.S. during that period, and it had a huge number written on it..
That's what he told us he had seen anyways. He was always joking around or lying about stuff, so who knows really.. lol
If not a fake story or a lie, then I thought hmmmm probably that it was for military equipment that would be left over from the war, otherwise when it was shutting down within the area I'm guessing. It was a huge amount he said, so who knows what it was for...
He has long since passed away around 10 year's ago now.
Not sure if the check was real or something he fabricated in story for us, but anyways he said he viewed it at the time.. Not sure what type of clearance or category (if any), something like that would have constituted or held, so who really knows if he was wrong for disclosing it or not ?
Glad he never had a copy of it to show us though, because I wouldn't know what I was looking at anyways when it came to authenticating that sort of stuff, otherwise in knowing the appearance of it or anything like that for legitimacy purposes.
He just told us the obscene number written on it, and who it was from... Then he proceeded to tell us his thoughts about it.
The point I guess is this, if true he was able to just boast about it or share the info by word of mouth without his bosses knowledge, uhhh was weird in a lot of ways to us, so one has to just wonder how much stuff can truly get out there by people wanting to just look big because they think that they have something or could get something to boaster their job description to their friends, otherwise while actively enlisted or maybe to boost their all important title that they figured they had while actively serving in the services to their friends ?
Doing such things while living in a culture that thrives on that sort of attention now, seems highly probable in a culture that has to be told that they're important through any means necessary.
How bad is theft in the military or among the ranks one might ask ? I mean anything from a simple physical bolt to an all important document ? How bad is it, and is there a culture found in it all, otherwise since being passed down through the years or generations ?
In the instant data transfer age, I can only imagine the problem our military is suffering from today. Be like trying to stop a bullet hole riddled bucket of water from bleeding out I bet, and especially with the character's we have today in the military. Maybe the military shouldn't have been so willing to join the information age after all.
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