On: Snowden Archive – documents leaked by Snowden

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Are you asking why classified documents are classified? Or why they remain classified after being leaked?

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Neither but both are good questions.

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If they declassified them, they couldn’t go after people trying to get them, or stop their own people from reading them.

They classify them because they either look bad, or would be helpful to enemies if they got out.

And as long as they stay classified, they get to keep the courts, etc. from using them too.