I think he intended the whataboutism part around assange as guilt by implication - does that count? In any case, he buried the lede at the very end of the stor

I think he intended the whataboutism part around assange as guilt by implication - does that count? In any case, he buried the lede at the very end of the story, after briefly mentioning in the beginning that he worked with the director of the program: “ Who is calling the shots? One man apparently, Gerard Ryle. In the wake of the Panama Papers, when we asked Ryle on a number of occasions for an ICIJ log-in to analyse the data, we were denied. “My path, my call,” said Ryle. We already have our media partners, he said. “ This reads more like his feelings were hurt by not being included.