Also, maybe they will use the "hack" as a way to say the incriminating tweets were added by the "hackers".
This could also be a 3D chess psyop:
"there is no way to prove all those messages were not tampered with"
"the revelations of the DOJ regarding so and so are just a revival of the 'conspiracy theories' put forth during the great twitter hack (which was of course done by 'Russians')"
Or they leak fake messages, that Twitter later "proves" were fake, while during the same time we use them as fact. And the DS uses as that as new argument to "prove" that what we say is an "unreliable" "conspiracy theory".
I would take a couple days to see how it plays out before jumping to conclusions.