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by pastProlog 3629 days ago
> classified documents and gave them to foreign journalists

What the "classified documents" said were that the government is secretly violating the constitutional "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures". Innocent citizens are routinely having their e-mails and phone calls watched, and recorded in archives permanently.

The "classified information" you keep referring to is that the government is violating its own constitution.