I think you'll find Wikileaks and Assange have lost a lot of support with the way they handled this leak. Not why/who. Assange overplayed his hand here because

I think you'll find Wikileaks and Assange have lost a lot of support with the way they handled this leak. Not why/who. Assange overplayed his hand here because he didn't even understand the emails he was leaking. Assange was linking to an email that said 'pull a clip' and he thought the DNC was somehow getting the media to remove a program. If he knew context (or just read the body of the email), he would have seen that this means to download a clip. This clearly shows he hadn't even read the emails, let alone understood them. He was trying to hurt HRC. How'd that work out? Let's not even get into the pointless leaking of voicemail of kids leaving messages for their parents.