I'm pretty sure that "self-serving political organization" is a tautology, based on the fact that an outsider-serving political organization would be an oxymoro

I'm pretty sure that "self-serving political organization" is a tautology, based on the fact that an outsider-serving political organization would be an oxymoron, or at best, a charity by definition. That said, the NDA is probably more so they don't leak the announcement before WikiLeaks does. They put a lot of effort into releasing information, and having a third party say "WikiLeaks is going to be releasing information on X day" undermines the control that they desire. edit: what AlexTGordon said, it's a product of paranoia / control.