If so I feel that there's a certain lack of ethics involved in this. We now have a slide recommending "direct access", after weeks of denials and pointless discussion about it that would have been much clarified and bolstered if this slide had been released. On the other hand, we still don't know the full context of the slides. Perhaps the next one says "But we don't have direct access yet, we are still working on that". Or perhaps it says "for direct access, get a warrant". We just don't know.
I understand the motives of the WP in releasing these slides one by one. It will undoubtably be maximizing the publicity and traffic they get from it. But I am not at all sure it is serving the public interest.