So using what happened as a reference, this is probably what went down:We know that in 2016, many of Assange's associates began to die. John Hones and Michael Ratner. These were a start, and could have been carried out by Clintons, intelligence agencies etc. The reason for suspecting this is because they both stand to gain: Clinton does this to help prevent her campaign from being damaged. And the intelligence agencies do not want to be in the spotlight, so they prefer to keep their operations discrete. Furthermore, if Clinton asks for this to be done, and she wins, she can return the favor for the US intelligence agencies to do as they please.Seth Rich is also included in the mix. He has been leaking documents for a long while. Remember, Wikileaks doesn't release any of Seth Rich's documents at this point. And once it was determined that it was him, he was shot and killed. It is possible that Michael Ratner may have revealed this information if he was under duress and had loved ones ("I will harm your family if you don't tell me who the leaker is"). It is also possible that Seth Rich was foolish enough to entrust someone with what he was doing, only for that person to snitch.Wikileaks suspected that Clinton et. al. was behind this attack, so they put out $20k bounty for actual information to confirm their beliefs. In the mean time, they slowly release the documents, which include Podesta emails. As the election nears, Kerry wants to put pressure on Ecuador to stop Assange from publishing Clinton documents, because the Podesta emails are pretty damaging. Knowing this, Assange released the SHA-256 keys and changes timestamps to 1984 before his internet was cut off.The moment his internet was cutoff IS the moment we assume that Wikileaks and Assange is compromised.(1/2)