They have never been the same since October 2016 when they kidnapped Assange and took him to a black ops site in Tennessee for some old fashioned waterboarding.
Remember the countdown people put on to see his proof of life or they would drop some big shit on Hillary? Remember the internet going down around October 22 2016 for the rumored reason of by passing a dead man switch?
Lots of stories then that Wikileaks was compromised and people were told to not send in their information that it had become a CIA honeypot.