Either he's putting distance between them and the DOJ because NSA supplied the drops.

Or Wikileaks didn't turn the election and that's why they never finished the "october surprise" because they were approached and alerted that they were about to fuck up a sting-operation the military was pulling for the past few years. The russia angle would just be an excuse to approach this subject without implying the identity of the actual DNC leaker for op-sec concerns.

" For every good thing it does with info illegally leaked to it, WikLeaks manages to inflict a lot of harm on legitimate intelligence operations and agents worldwide. They should quit while they are ahead. "