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Whoops: The DOJ May Have Confirmed Some of the Wikileaks CIA Dump

The US government says it wants to keep some of the now public documents out of court because they contain classified material, suggesting that they could be authentic.

Last week, the US government may have confirmed the authenticity of a number of CIA documents concerning the agency's hacking operations, but not in the way you might expect.

Judging by a recent court filing, at least some of the CIA files Wikileaks published earlier this month are genuine, because the government pushed back against having them admitted in court due to the documents' classified content.

"The government is not able to declare non-government records as classified, unless they are taking ownership of the records themselves," Bradley P. Moss, a national security attorney, told Motherboard in an email.

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