Court documents revealed that Johnathan Buma had printed 130 files from the FBI’s internal network, with many of the documents marked with warnings that the information is confidential.
See this is the kind of stuff that pisses me off. I had high security clearances (TS/SCI and Q) for much of my adult life. Reporters always say stuff like "the information is confidential" but they don't understand what that means, so the reader doesn't either. CONFIDENTIAL is a security classification - like SECRET or TOP SECRET. So is the info the ex-agent had "Confidential" (below secret and above unclassified) or does the reporter really mean the information is sensitive, private, or law-enforcement-info? If someone says "keep this confidential" it doesn't likely mean it is classified as Confidential. It usually means "don't disseminate to anyone uncleared".
If they would even say something like "the information was classified" we would know what that means.
Forgot to add - PII, Privacy Act information or even HIPAA are also supposed to be protected, along with countless other examples that aren't classified.
Sorry for the upcoming mini-rant...
See this is the kind of stuff that pisses me off. I had high security clearances (TS/SCI and Q) for much of my adult life. Reporters always say stuff like "the information is confidential" but they don't understand what that means, so the reader doesn't either. CONFIDENTIAL is a security classification - like SECRET or TOP SECRET. So is the info the ex-agent had "Confidential" (below secret and above unclassified) or does the reporter really mean the information is sensitive, private, or law-enforcement-info? If someone says "keep this confidential" it doesn't likely mean it is classified as Confidential. It usually means "don't disseminate to anyone uncleared".
If they would even say something like "the information was classified" we would know what that means.
/rant
You said what I was thinking while I was reading this. I wish people would stop writing about things they don't understand.
Alas. The would then be mute.
Forgot to add - PII, Privacy Act information or even HIPAA are also supposed to be protected, along with countless other examples that aren't classified.