"Legally" is doing an awful lot of work in that sentence. It was not federally legal then and would not be today. (I think it should be and wish it was on behal

"Legally" is doing an awful lot of work in that sentence. It was not federally legal then and would not be today. (I think it should be and wish it was on behalf of others, but it isn't.) The security clearance in question is federal.