No, the important part of your claim is "It was regular papers before".
The TOP SECRET cover sheets cover TOP SECRET classified information, not "regular papers".
They were "super illegal" with or without the cover sheets.
The TOP SECRET cover sheets cover TOP SECRET classified information, not "regular papers".
They were "super illegal" with or without the cover sheets.
Um, not necessarily. They were going to court to determine that.
They didn't bring a bunch of "TOP SECRET" cover sheets to sprinkle on random unclassified docs to make it look more illegal than it was. They weren't "regular papers"; they were classified documents.