Pretty poorly written as it focuses on US disclosures (rather than say, the disclosures of the Erdogan emails), and adopts a zero-sum Cold War-like calculus for

Pretty poorly written as it focuses on US disclosures (rather than say, the disclosures of the Erdogan emails), and adopts a zero-sum Cold War-like calculus for "Russia's benefit". US media outlets and political campaigns crying wolf (bear?) every time their reputations are damaged or to discredit their opponents (Clinton campaign wrt Trump) looks a lot like a modern form of McCarthyism. You could equally expect RT or Sputnik to run a headline "How the US Often Benefits When Leaked Documents Reveal Russia's Secrets". Or, if you could point to specific instances: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/04/04/russia-says-putin-main-target-panama-papers/82600272/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/04/04/russia-s... Indeed, the primary and most damaging leaks have been from US military whistleblowers - both Snowden and Manning documents - but also leaks from the former head of CIA (Patreus) betraying drone programs. Other leaks like the SONY leaks indicating the US State Department's active role in puppeteering "The Interview", while played down by US domestic media, was damaging to the normal and usually successful domestic propaganda narrative in the states. The two leaks I can remember being attributed (possibly) to Russia include the DNC hacks, which disclosed huge election fraud and resulted in the retirement of the top five officials of the Democratic Party, and the leak (not published by Wikileaks) of the phone conversation by Victoria Nuland about supporting US-friendly political leadership transitions in the Ukraine (which the US media, again, covered as a scandal over swear words rather than content). One of the interesting takes on the back and forth disclosure of corruption is that, in some sense, both Russian and US citizens 'win': they both gain access to transparency that their governments would otherwise prioritize their not having access to.