>They built a legitimacy and reputation for releasing documents in big dumps No, they built a reputation doing the exact opposite. The diplomatic cable leaks f

>They built a legitimacy and reputation for releasing documents in big dumps No, they built a reputation doing the exact opposite. The diplomatic cable leaks for example, were drip-fed out in the exact same way. It prevents the meat of the leaks from getting buried. The Hillary Campaign and the DNC (which is behind much of the smearing of Assange), for example, tried to bury the podesta email dump by timing the leak the pussy recording on the same day. It likely was a little personal though. Clinton has joked about murdering him to shut him up and I doubt she was being entirely unserious.