This falls under the "unintended consequences" category.

I have written a rather comprehensive debunking of the "Russia interfered in our election” narrative that has obsessed the MSM for most of a year. Since its first posting, I have been updating it; its expanded form is available here: https://medium.com/@markfmccarty/whats-left-of-russiagate-are-we-down-to...

John Brennan, CIA Director. The man thinks he's going to get away with it.

Reddit lit-up last night with a flurry of news about the Seth Rich investigation.

At the same time, Twitter was yanking down the trending tags as fast as they could — but the story overwhelmed:

• WikiLeaks on Twitter: Audio tape of Seymour Hersh discussing WikiLeaks DNC leaks and Seth Rich

Those who pay attention to what is going on – as opposed to passively consuming the obsessions of MSM – know that the Clinton-related material published by Wikileaks emerged from leaks, not hacks.

Is it about oil? Is it about gas? Is it about pipelines? Is it about a central bank? Is it about power? Is it about greed? Is it about regime change? Is it about country balkanization? Is it about Iran? Is it about Russia? Is it about Israel?

Yes.

Is it about fighting terrorism?

No.

It's easy to focus on the Orwellian surveillance techniques that Wikileaks exposed.
Then again, a closer reading will reveal some silver linings.

#1) Thanks Snowden

The news that the CIA can break into Signal and WhatsApp is big news, but possibly the biggest item was intentionally buried in this NY Times article. To quote Wikileaks:

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-07/cia-hackers-able-...

. . . Wikileaks has brought forth the first of multiple installments of alleged CIA documents (which all have so far indicated look to be the real thing), detailing the ways that the U.S. is spying upon others and upon its own citizens.