>When stuff like this leaks, if any of the information is considered sensitive/classified/restricted in any manner, the act of it being leaked does not dissolve

>When stuff like this leaks, if any of the information is considered sensitive/classified/restricted in any manner, the act of it being leaked does not dissolve its restricted status. This is correct. >In other words, if you are a regular US citizen and you go to Wikileaks and look at something that is classified without having the proper security clearance, then you're now on the wrong side of the law. This does not follow and is incorrect. You don't have to worry about appropriate handling of classified material unless you have (or had) a security clearance. Your email where you got this information from was directed mostly to cleared employees.