My guess is that the US is applying pressure on Ecuador. They want the leaks to stop. Ecuador already has incentives to stop helping Trump, as Trump has recent

My guess is that the US is applying pressure on Ecuador. They want the leaks to stop. Ecuador already has incentives to stop helping Trump, as Trump has recently taken a hard line against Latin American strongmen, of which Correa, President of Ecuador, is one. Some assurances from Hillary, and threats from Obama, could have been enough to push him over. I imagine that one of the currently unspoken fears that the Democrats have with wikileaks is that they've built up immense credibility and could choose to cash it in by dropping a fake leak a day or two before the election. Or they could drop an incredibly damaging REAL leak, which is even scarier for the Democrats. There's no doubt that the Clintons have skeletons in their closet. What I find extremely disturbing is that Obama was fine with RT and Wikileaks when they were mostly advancing the then-leftist agenda of better relations with Russia and US non-interventionism. Now that things have shifted and they are now undermining Obama's agenda and chosen successor, he's suddenly discovered his inner cold warrior. The real winner here is Mitt Romney. The Democrats mocked him, nothing short of laughing in his face, when during the 2012 election he said Russia was our biggest geopolitical threat. Obama, around the same time, was caught telling the Russians he could be "more flexible after the election". They took that flexibility and marched all the way into Ukraine, Syria, and (allegedly) DNC and Clinton email servers with it. Obama owes him an apology.