What gets me is that people talk about classified material, or any portion thereof, as a monolithic entity. Either it is or it isnt.
Not reality. Information is temporal, and it is context specific.
Today, I can talk about x and it isn't classified nor is there any reason to think it should be. A month from now, someone several agencies away could deem it classified. I of course might have no idea they did that. But run my old emails past them and bang, it is classified.
Or, information might be classified until a specific date, but not after.
Or, context is important. The name and location of an embassy by itself isn't classified, but would be in the context of a specific activity.
But to the press, it's either classified or it isnt. So you better not discuss the location of the American embassy in russia, because it appears in several top secret documents. Maybe. I have no first hand information on that. 
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