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Report: Justice Department may have confirmed authenticity of WikiLeaks CIA documents

By Daniel Chaitin

Published March 22, 2017 8:04pm ET

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Report: Justice Department may have confirmed authenticity of WikiLeaks CIA documents — The Justice Department may have revealed that the classified documents are real due to an unrelated case in which the defendant tried to admit some of the WikiLeaks documents to make a case. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File) | J. David Ake

The Trump administration may have confirmed the authenticity of a portion of the WikiLeaks documents it claims were stolen from the CIA’s secret hacking program.

According to a Motherboard report on Wednesday, the Justice Department, not the CIA, may have revealed that the classified documents are real due to an unrelated case in which the defendant tried to admit some of the WikiLeaks documents to make a case.

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