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by sigzero 4817 days ago
Legal in what sense? Wikileaks cannot de-classify materials regardless of how much they "analyze and assess" it.
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If the materials were properly declassified and held for public browsing by the NARA then what Wikileaks is doing is fine. It would be the same as Google wrapping a much nicer search interface across an old dataset.

If the materials were still classified-but-leaked then I won't go near it until it is declassified. But I can't tell from this side of the window what's going on.