Canon Shooter
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You’re not a lawyer are you? I’m not either, but the claim that there are no degrees of severity is ludicrous. If that were true, documents wouldn’t be given different classifications depending on sensitivity.
No, I'm not a lawyer, but I enjoyed varying levels of security clearances over the better part of a 20 year Naval career.
The different classifications have to do with access. Period. It doesn't pertain to possible punishments for compromising a marked document.
If one person compromises a "confidential" document and another compromises a "top secret" document, the law allows for both offenses to be punished equally...