I’ll stop calling them the Evil Party when they stop being evil. But I’m not holding my breath.
Answer: No. Information remains classified until it has been officially declassified. Its disclosure in a public sources does not declassify the information. Of course, merely quoting the public source in the abstract is not a second unauthorised disclosure. However, before disseminating the information elsewhere of confirming the accuracy of what appears in the public sources, the signer of the SF312 must confirm through an authorise official that the information has, in fact, been declassified. If it has not, further dissemination of the information or confirmation of its accuracy is also an unauthorised disclosure.
This little snippet is from a government nondisclosure agreement that, according to Executive Order 12958, must be signed by any entity within the executive branch that comes into possession of classified information, including the White House.
And that would include Mr. Karl Rove, traitor-at-large.
Breach of contract may not be much compared to high treason, but it's just another sign of the absolute moral depravity of the gang of thugs who control the United States government.
(quoted part of SF312 via Atrios)