The beverage is technically classified as a foodstuff for now, an anomaly that has allowed producers to avoid a sweeping new crackdown on alcohol advertisingandnight-timesales.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was convicted in 2007 in connection with the leaking of CIA officer Plame's identity -- information that was technicallyclassified, though Cheney later implied that information had been declassified.
Because many things everybody knows about are technically secret, creating an arbitrary, ever-shifting line between the classified and the public domains.