Sure it is. You said it wasn't, I said I don't know, and Ratcliffe is here saying that it's permissible to use when discussing government business.

No, I said it wasn't an authorized app to use for the transmittal of classified or national defense information. No version of it is. You can discuss unclassified, unrestricted "government business" on anything - even a pay phone. But you can't transmit this kind of information over

And right after that JR says they weren't sharing classified info. Confidential information mostly likely.

It's unfathomable that the information described in the Atlantic article would not be considered classified information. It may not have been labelled classified, but the participants should have known that it would be treated as such even if not labeled. And even if it weren't formally classified, it's indisputably national defense information, which also is prohibited from being sent that way. And Ratcliffe wouldn't necessarily know - and certainly doesn't get to make the call - whether information generated by another agency is considered classified by that agency.