How is it exactly that a letter Jane Harman writes to the CIA manages to be classified? Harman doesn’t work for the CIA, after all. Spencer Ackerman gets the answer: a legal called “derivative classification.” This seems like an odd legal principle to me, but it seems well-established.
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