Their criminal obstruction is matched only by their incompetence.
@epistomai @frank @georgetakei
Leaking the material is riskier for the whistleblower, it also risks rumors about it being fake, a "hoax", chinese hackers or whatever diversion they could come up with.
When it's published and announced officially and it later turns out the anonymization was just shoddy, there is not much they can do to spin it.