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If you are a DoD employee or contractor, then the answer is 'yes'.

[1] http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2013/06/dod-classified/

(assuming there is classified information in the documents)

The Stratfor documents were accessed through the internet. If anything in there is classified someone at Stratfor should be facing a criminal investigation for storing classified documents on an unclassified system.

That doesn't mean it isn't also a crime to access the classified files (in certain circumstances, as above).

That's the great thing about the US government now - everything's a crime, oh boy!

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